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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of More than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History. Soldiers and Sailors, Statesmen and Sages, Workmen and Heroes, Artists and Authors. ORIGINAL PARTS ISSUE.
by Horne, Charles F.; Hess, Selmar
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Selmar Hess, New York: (1894)., 1894 Issued (by subscription) in sixty-eight (68) original parts. Large 4to. 240 x 310 mm. Paper wraps, somewhat worn with soiling and loss to a few parts. Each part contains 3 full-page engravings (one which is photogravure by Messrs. Goupil & Co. of Paris or other eminent makers) plus 24 pages of biography, illustrated with monochrome sketches. The contributors were also famous persons, and include: Theodore Roosevelt; H. Rider Haggard; Henry George; Margaret Sangster; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Albion Tourgee; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Edward Everett Hale; Hans Christian Andersen; Thomas Carlyle; Will Carleton; Edward Everett Hale; William Lloyd Garrison; and many others. Books in parts are works which were published piecemeal (mainly in the 19th century) over a period of months or years. Each unit usually having a separate magazine-like cover. This method of publishing benefited the publisher as it was thought that the price of a weekly or monthly part at one shilling or a quarter was affordable to a wider readership than the price of pound sterling or $ 5.00 for a bound volume. They also qualified for mailing at a cheaper rate. Since they were meant to be bound by the purchaser, very few have survived into our present era. This edition apparently not in Arents (1957). Complete sets in this form are RARE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PARTS 1 Language: eng. Soft cover. Very Good.
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- Title
- GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of More than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History. Soldiers and Sailors, Statesmen and Sages, Workmen and Heroes, Artists and Authors. ORIGINAL PARTS ISSUE.
- Author
- Horne, Charles F.; Hess, Selmar
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Selmar Hess, New York: (1894).
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY; HISTORY; ILLUSTRATION; BOOK IN PARTS; ENGRAVING; SUBSCRIPTION; A DVERTISING; PUBLISHING
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATED;
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THE FAMILY ALBUM
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania
About THE FAMILY ALBUM
Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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