前言20世纪50年代初,我国曾出现第一家公私合营发行机构——中国图书发行公司。自1951年1月1日成立,至1953年底结束,并入新华书店。这个发行机构在短短三年中,因何而起?因何而止?它在三年中主要做了哪些工作?过去未见有系统地报道过。作为新中国的书林一叶,它不应被忽略。为了给出版史研究者提供一份真实的史料,我们从 Preface The early 1950s, China had the first public-private joint-venture distribution agencies - China Book Distribution Corporation. Since January 1, 1951 was established until the end of 1953, incorporated Xinhua Bookstore. What happened to this issuer in just three years? Where did it work? What did it do primarily in three years? It has not been reported systematically in the past. As a leaf of the new China, it should not be neglected. In order to provide researchers with the history of the publication of a true historical data, we from