Printer, Publisher, & Place of Publication

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story was first published in 1924 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and printed by The Knickerbocker press, both of the same facility in New York.

Figure 14
George Palmer Putnam
(Image from A Memoir of George Palmer Putnam, 1903)

In 1838, George Palmer Putnam (see Figure 14), a bookseller from New York, partnered with John Wiley founding Wiley & Putnam, a retail book selling business. Soon, the company expanded to publishing. However, just ten years later, Wiley and Putnam parted ways leaving George Putnam to run the business on his own. George Putnam is said to have had an "astute sense of literary foresight" (Penguin Group, 2014) as he first published prestigious authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

When G.P. Putnam passed away in 1872, his three sons took over the business, its name changing to G.P. Putnam's Sons. Just two years later, the company established its own printing facilities division called the Knickerbocker Press located in the Knickerbocker Press Building (see Figure 15).

Figure 15
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Today, G.P. Putnam's Sons is an imprint of Penguin Books but remains a leader in the publishing industry having published more New York Times bestsellers than any other imprint in the business. (Penguin Group, 2014).