One year after date The Alden Publishing Co. will pay to the order of
_____________ _____________ the sum of Ten Dollars, at the Importers’
and Traders’ National Bank, 247 Broadway, New York.
These bonds are negotiable and are sold to the patrons of _The Literary
Revolution_ at par. The object is to afford a practical system of
co-operation by which buyers of books may get them at cost of
manufacture and handling. The use of the money one year is more than
sufficient time to print, bind and market a paying edition of an average
book. The investor gets for the use of his money 16 per cent. per annum,
_payable in books_ (see coupon); he also gets an _option_ of purchase
(see coupon) which, if he avails himself of it, will, with the 16 per
cent., earn and save him at the rate of about 60 per cent. per annum
(see Stockholders’ Prices), on his $10 investment. These bonds are
issued in amounts to suit the purchaser, not less than $10; they are
also made payable, if desired, in Six months, or Three months, the
coupon being reduced pro rata with the time.
Dated at the office of the Company, 393 Pearl St., New York, this ____
day of __________ 188__.
THE ALDEN PUBLISHING CO.,
President.
COUPON LITERARY REVOLUTION SAVINGS-BOND.
The Alden Publishing Co. will pay to _____________ _____________ or
order the sum of _One Dollar and Sixty Cents_, on demand, in any of _its
own publications_ at Stockholders’ prices, deliverable at any office of
the Company, and will also permit the holder hereof to purchase at
Stockholders’ prices any books advertised by it to an amount not
exceeding the value of _Six Dollars_, net.
This paper is negotiable and transferable when properly endorsed, and
will be honored at any time after its date, at any office of the
Company, upon presentation, accompanied by cash remittance for the books
to be purchased at Stockholders’ prices, and also by the cost of postage
on all the books so ordered, if to be sent by mail.
No. 393 Pearl St., New York, the ____ day of __________ 188__.
THE ALDEN PUBLISHING CO.,
President.
New Catalogue—_Important Change in Terms._
The accompanying catalogue is thoroughly revised to date, and differs
from its predecessors materially in the one point, that the prices given
include the _cost of pre-payment_ by mail or express—instead of the New
York City _net prices_, to which the cost of postage has been added,
heretofore.
The change is principally one of convenience rather than of either
reduction or increase, though on many books there is a substantial
reduction in the cost to purchasers, cost of transportation being taken
into account. An allowance of _8 cents a pound_, which is made on bills
ordered sent by express or freight, cost of transportation payable on
arrival, by the purchaser, is equivalent to a discount of front _15 to
30 per cent_. from catalogue prices, varying according to quality,
style, copyright, and other considerations, on different books.
The first page of the catalogue fully and clearly sets forth the new
terms.
Wanted—Agents.
Personally you may not care to go into the “Book Agency Business,” but
possibly you may know of some good person who will undertake to
“organize a book club” in your neighborhood, or make a thorough
house-to-house canvass of the entire township or county. A $1.00 Book
Free to you (your choice) if you will send me the address of such a
person, who will sell for me as much as $25 worth of books within two
months from time of taking hold. As a means of making my books better
known I want to have at least one sample book put into every intelligent
household; once there they are a permanent advertisement.
A few of my publications are unexcelled, _for experienced book agents_,
notably
Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia.
Alden’s Cyclopedia of Universal Literature.
Geikie’s Holy Land and the Bible.
The Great Locomotive Chase (the most thrilling and unique story of the
war).
The Woman’s Story (by Twenty Famous American Women, Mrs. Stowe, Miss
Alcott, and others).
Alden’s Home Atlas, and Handy Atlas,
and several others which could be named. Please do anything you can to
further the interests of The Literary Revolution, and your kindness will
be appreciated by
JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher,
393 Pearl St., New York.
Transcriber’s Notes
--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and
dialect unchanged.
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