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Wanted For Cash: U. S. Presidential Bookplates or Booklabels. State name
of President and price desired for plate. Give your name and address.
Bookplate, Care of The Collector’s Guide, P. O. Box 124, Grand Central
Annex, New York.
Some facts about Baedeker’s Travel Books in the February issue of THE
COLLECTOR’S GUIDE.
_Suckers’ Progress_
A book jobber recently found on his hands an entire warehouse full of
obsolete histories in sets of 20 volumes each. They simply wouldn’t
sell; nobody wanted to give them away as premiums; their stock was so
inferior that secondhand paper dealers laughed at the idea of purchasing
them. Then inspiration came to the jobber. He expressed the entire
edition to a publisher’s sucker list, accompanied by the following
letter.
Sir:
We are forwarding you herewith a set of Professor McFeely’s _History
of the World From Earliest Times Down to the Inaugural of Chester A.
Arthur_. There are two bindings available: one in cloth such as we are
sending you, retailing for $19.25, the other in beautiful hand-tooled
crushed levant, for $39.98. If you should decide you prefer the
expensive leather-bound edition you may return the set we are sending
you and upon remitting the balance you will receive the other
magnificent volumes.
Each sucker actually received the leather-bound edition—in fact, no
cloth one existed. But every recipient, imagining that he had received
the wrong books by mistake and was gypping the jobber, sent on his
$19.25 and kept the books. In no time the entire edition was sold out.
(Lucius Beebe in New York HERALD TRIBUNE and reprinted by READER’S
DIGEST).
The New York TIMES reports that a new Medical Library building is being
erected at the Yale University of Medicine to receive Dr. Cushing’s
library and collections, including his letters, diaries and manuscripts.
Any of his friends who wish, now or later, to present correspondence,
photographs or other memorabilia for permanent preservation among the
Cushing papers will receive the appreciative thanks of the university.
The late Merle Johnson, in his “American First Editions” called
attention to the fact that there is no formal Bibliography of the
writings of Bret Harte. The collector is referred to the sales catalogue
of the Charles Meeker Kozlay sale, held at the galleries of the American
Art Association some years ago and now on file at the New York Public
Library. It is the only known listing of the variants and minutiae.
BOOK-DEALERS
Take Notice
_We Want Scholarly Books_
1. We Want Elizabethan & Restoration Dramatists—In First and Later
Editions.
2. We Want Best Edited Editions of Dramatists: MARSTON, PEELE, NASH,
etc. BULLEN’S Old Plays, etc.
3. The Publications of ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETIES, such as HUTH, MALONE,
FULLER, and BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.
_We Pay Promptly on Receipt._
THE BRICK ROW BOOK SHOP, Inc.
55 Fifth Ave., New York City
WE BUY WE SELL
_Specimen Books of_
Printing Types
and
Printers’ Ornaments
Penmanship Publications
Prior to 1880
PAUL A. STRUCK
415 Lexington Av., New York
_The Long, Long Ago_
In “San Francisco’s Literary Frontiers”, by Franklin Walker, “The Annals
of San Francisco” is described as being probably the best book ever
written about that glamorous city. Its 800 pages give not only the
history of California during the Spanish and American occupations, but
also a faithful account of its social history from 1846 to 1854.
Included also are vigorously penned descriptions of special local
happenings, such as the Great Fires, Steamer Days, the lawless ravages
of The “Hounds”, etc, to say nothing of short biographies of outstanding
oldtimers. The “Annals” have long been out of print, but the book was
gotten up so sumptuously that many copies were kept. It can usually be
picked up for from $7.50 to $20.00 depending on the condition and
binding. A folding map should accompany it. A few years ago, the
California Historical Society, San Francisco, compiled, under the
direction of Charles Francis Griffin, a 28 page index, which is a big
time-saver for historians, and literary searchers. It is bound in full
paper boards, and is sold by the Society for $1.25.
The first issue of the Princeton University Library CHRONICLE contains a
checklist of Winslow Homer, famed painter and designer for wood
engravers, whose life span was from 1836 to 1910.
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