Reminiscences in Book Making, by R.M. Ballantyne

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Title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories

Author: R.M. Ballantyne

Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21755]

Language: English

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Personal Reminiscences of Book Making

by R.M. Ballantyne

(1825-1894)

CHAPTER ONE.

INCIDENTS IN BOOK MAKING--INTRODUCTORY.

Book making is mixed up, more or less, with difficulties. It is sometimes disappointing; often amusing; occasionally lucrative; frequently expensive, and always interesting--at least to the maker.

Of course I do not refer to that sort of book making which is connected with the too prevalent and disgraceful practice of gambling, but to the making of literary books--especially story-books for the young.

For over eight-and-thirty years I have had the pleasure of making such books and of gathering the material for them in many and distant lands.

During that period a considerable number of the juvenile public have accepted me as one of their guides in the world of Fiction, and through many scenes in the wildest and most out-o

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