- Under its successor Doubleday, Doran (formed by the 1927 merger), first printings carry the words "First Edition" beneath the copyright notice on the back of the title page.
- By the late 1920s Doubleday, Page itself was printing "First Edition" beneath the copyright notice on first printings.
Publisher · founded 1897 · New York City
Doubleday, Page & Company
Doubleday, Page & Company was the New York publisher run by Frank Nelson Doubleday and Walter Hines Page from 1900 to 1927, ancestor of today's Doubleday imprint.
- Editions tracked
- 23
- First editions
- 17
- Books
- 23
- Years
- 1900 to 1925
Doubleday, Page & Company is a publisher based in New York City, founded in 1897. We track 23 editions it published between 1900 and 1925, 17 of them first editions across 23 books. How Doubleday, Page & Company marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
About Doubleday, Page & Company
Doubleday, Page & Company was the New York publishing house run by Frank Nelson Doubleday and Walter Hines Page from 1900 until 1927, when it merged into Doubleday, Doran and so became an ancestor of today's Doubleday imprint.
Doubleday had started out in 1897 in partnership with the magazine publisher S. S. McClure as Doubleday & McClure. When that arrangement ended in 1900 he took Page, the journalist and editor of the magazine The World's Work, as partner and vice president, and the firm was renamed. Page stayed until 1913, when he left to serve as United States ambassador to Britain.
In 1910 the company moved its operations, including its own railway station, to Garden City on Long Island. Doubleday's early bestsellers included Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Day's Work. The firm also issued Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie: 1,008 copies were printed on 8 November 1900, the publisher did nothing to advertise it, and only 456 sold.
On 30 December 1927 the firm combined with the George H. Doran Company to form Doubleday, Doran, renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946. Bertelsmann bought the business in 1986, and since 2009 the Doubleday imprint has been part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group within Penguin Random House.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows Doubleday, Page & Company's practice for the year on your title page.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I identify a Doubleday, Page & Company first edition?
- Under its successor Doubleday, Doran (formed by the 1927 merger), first printings carry the words "First Edition" beneath the copyright notice on the back of the title page. - By the late 1920s Doubleday, Page itself was printing "First Edition" beneath the copyright notice on first printings.
How many Doubleday, Page & Company books does MyVolumes track?
We track 23 editions published by Doubleday, Page & Company, 17 of them first editions, across 23 books.
Where these facts come from
- Doubleday (publisher), Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Walter Hines Page, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sister Carrie, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- First-Edition: Identification by Publisher, ILAB (Allen and Patricia Ahearn), 2010 (ilab.org)
- First Editions of Today and How to Tell Them (H. S. Boutell), Internet Archive, 1949 (archive.org)
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