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HEPBURN, James (James Gordon), 1922- :
THE AUTHOR'S EMPTY PURSE AND THE RISE OF THE LITERARY AGENT.
London : Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition. A pioneering study of the pre-history, rise and influence of the literary agent in England and America - with much on Arnold Bennett, Walter Besant, Curtis Brown, William Heinemann, J. B. Pinker, A. P. Watt, etc., and an extensive bibliography of material relating to the conditions of authorship. Demy 8vo. [viii],(136)pp. Original boards; very faint spotting of edges and endpapers, but otherwise very good in a rubbed dust-jacket.
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