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Putnam, George Palmer.
Wide Margins: A Publisher's Autobiography
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1942, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, An unconventional memoir of a publisher who didn't believe in the arm-chair theory of book publishing. In the 1920's he publishd The Mirrrors of Washington, the first of political backstage books, which fathered the newspaper columnists & radion commentators of today. He battled censorship & most of all made the Americans conscious of the margins of the world by publishing for such adventurous spirits as: Rockwell Kent, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, William Beebe. He practiced what he published by exploring for himself the far North. Blue cloth boards & spine, red title panel to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with orange lettering. Corners of flaps clipped, edgewear, 1/2 closed tear to upper edge, rear upper edge, creased 1 inch closed tear. Mild soil, picture of the Putnams to rear. Very clean text, solidly bound. First Ed. In mylar wraps. tall 8 vo, 351 pages
(First, Edition, Vintage, Books, Putnam, Publishing, House, Publish, Empires, Publishers, Autobiography, Of, A, Publishing, House, George, Putnam) Cat No. 901m.
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24.50
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Putnam, George Palmer.
Wide Margins: A Publisher's Autobiography
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1942, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, An unconventional memoir of a publisher who didn't believe in the arm-chair theory of book publishing. In the 1920's he publishd The Mirrrors of Washington, the first of political backstage books, which fathered the newspaper columnists & radion commentators of today. He battled censorship & most of all made the Americans conscious of the margins of the world by publishing for such adventurous spirits as: Rockwell Kent, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, William Beebe. He practiced what he published by exploring for himself the far North. Blue cloth boards & spine, red title panel to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with orange lettering. Corners of flaps clipped, edgewear, 1/2 closed tear to upper edge, rear upper edge, creased 1 inch closed tear. Mild soil, picture of the Putnams to rear. Very clean text, solidly bound. First Ed. In mylar wraps. tall 8 vo, 351 pages
(First, Edition, Vintage, Books, Putnam, Publishing, House, Publish, Empires, Publishers, Autobiography, Of, A, Publishing, House, George, Putnam) Cat No. 901m.
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24.50
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Putnam, George Palmer.
Wide Margins: A Publisher's Autobiography
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1942, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, An unconventional memoir of a publisher who didn't believe in the arm-chair theory of book publishing. In the 1920's he publishd The Mirrrors of Washington, the first of political backstage books, which fathered the newspaper columnists & radion commentators of today. He battled censorship & most of all made the Americans conscious of the margins of the world by publishing for such adventurous spirits as: Rockwell Kent, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, William Beebe. He practiced what he published by exploring for himself the far North. Blue cloth boards & spine, red title panel to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with orange lettering. Corners of flaps clipped, edgewear, 1/2 closed tear to upper edge, rear upper edge, creased 1 inch closed tear. Mild soil, picture of the Putnams to rear. Very clean text, solidly bound. First Ed. In mylar wraps. tall 8 vo, 351 pages
(First, Edition, Vintage, Books, Putnam, Publishing, House, Publish, Empires, Publishers, Autobiography, Of, A, Publishing, House, George, Putnam) Cat No. 901m.
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Draper, Theodore.
The Roots of American Communism; The Untold Story of the Formative Years of the Communist Party in America
New York, Viking Press,
1957, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, From its early backround through its founding in 1919 to its emergence from the underground in the 1920's. The author traces the native and foreign strains that went into the party; the people who actually made up its membership and leadership; its structure and operation; the shifting policies that guided it; the factional differences withing it; its secret as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power. He brings to light the individual leadership of: William Z. Foster, John Reed, Louis C. Fraina, and others. Photo illustrated. Black cloth boars & spine. DJ black & grey not price clipped. Mild shelfwear, previous owner name to e.p. Clean text, solidly bound. sm 8 vo, 498 pages. First Edition.
(American, Communism, Communist, Spies, History, Of, American, Communism, Hollywood, And Communism, William, Z, Foster, John, Reed, Louis, C, Fraina, Leon, Trotsky, Red, International, Labor, Party, Molly, Maguires, Max, Eastman, Communist, Sympathizers, In America, Communism, In The 1950, S, First, Edition, Political, Movements, Socialist, Party) Cat No. 902m.
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18.00
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Draper, Theodore.
The Roots of American Communism; The Untold Story of the Formative Years of the Communist Party in America
New York, Viking Press,
1957, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, From its early backround through its founding in 1919 to its emergence from the underground in the 1920's. The author traces the native and foreign strains that went into the party; the people who actually made up its membership and leadership; its structure and operation; the shifting policies that guided it; the factional differences withing it; its secret as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power. He brings to light the individual leadership of: William Z. Foster, John Reed, Louis C. Fraina, and others. Photo illustrated. Black cloth boars & spine. DJ black & grey not price clipped. Mild shelfwear, previous owner name to e.p. Clean text, solidly bound. sm 8 vo, 498 pages. First Edition.
(American, Communism, Communist, Spies, History, Of, American, Communism, Hollywood, And Communism, William, Z, Foster, John, Reed, Louis, C, Fraina, Leon, Trotsky, Red, International, Labor, Party, Molly, Maguires, Max, Eastman, Communist, Sympathizers, In America, Communism, In The 1950, S, First, Edition, Political, Movements, Socialist, Party) Cat No. 902m.
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