Search Results: Journalism from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Elbing: Im Verlag der Hartmannsschen Buchhandlung, numbers 1 to 104 (inclusive), January to December, 1822. First edition. 8vo (8.5" x 7.5"), unpaginated [8 pages per issue]. Contemporary paper vellum over boards with a gilt-lettered red spine label Text in German, printed in two columns.
Binding rubbed & soiled, with joints just beginning to split & hinges cracked Internally, first printed leaf partially detached causing minor tattering, small rubber stamp on the first page, moderate toning & sporadic light foxing throughout, Good or better. "The Highest Approved Royal West Prussian Elbing Newspaper from the State and Scholars," edited by Friedrich Traugott Hartmann, began publication in the early 19th century. Editor Hartmann, as several sources cite, apparently held anti-Semitic views. Enjoying essentially a monopoly until supplanted by rival "Elbinger Anzeigen," the final issue was published in 1830. Uncommon in general within institutional collections, this particular year is not represented in… Read More

Baltimore, Maryland: Published by Dobbin & Fulton, Volume CXXV, No. 20,483, Thursday, May 1, 1862. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 29.75 inches by 45 inches folded once horizontally forming 4 pages.
Old folds, lightly toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing & closed tears), couple of small losses briefly affecting text (now reinforced with archival tissue), small rubber-stamped mark at the lower margin of the front page, otherwise very good.
Contents Include: Surrender of New Orleans; Siege of Yorktown; Affairs in Tennessee; Mr. Jefferson Davis; and much more.

Baltimore, Maryland: Published by John H. Wood, elaborate masthead engraved by Torsch & Rea, Volume III, No. 36, Saturday, September 9, 1871. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 28.5 inches by 42 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages.
Old folds, slightly toned & soiled, brief edge wear, some creasing, short pencil annotation at the top margin, small rubber-stamped mark in the bottom margin, otherwise very good or better.
A short-lived publication providing news, literature, &, of course, advertisements, Baltimore Saturday Night was first issued in 1869 & ceased in 1875. It was apparently continued as the Sunday Herald thereafter.

San Francisco: Robert E. Culbreth, Volume xxxiii, number 39, April 17, 1897. First edition. Folio newspaper, 24 pp., illustrated. Pictorial wraps, stapled.
Lightly soiled, brief pencil annotations in the top margin of the upper cover, trace edge wear, Very Good. Single issue of a weekly newspaper published in San Francisco between (approximately) 1878 & 1900. This example provides biographies of leading men including Robert McMurray, "well-known capitalist", Collis Potter Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, & several others. Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 8 issues at Stanford University & a bound volume for 1893 at the Huntington.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket.
Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in good or better dust jacket with soiling (including a faint cup ring on the front panel), browning at the spine, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch closed tear.
"Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death." ~William S. Burroughs, excerpted from the dust jacket.

Washington, D.C.: W.D. Wallach. Lot of 9 issues, broken run: Volume xiv, numbers 2058, 2061, 2062, 2073, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, & 2098, September, October, & November, 1859. First editions, original broadsheet newspapers, single sheets measuring 22 inches by 29 inches folding once vertically forming 4 pages each.
Old folds, tattered, creased, some losses (text mostly unaffected), small rubber stamp in the margins, good or so & still quite useful.
The Washington Evening Star was founded in 1852 by Captain Joseph Borrows Tate. In 1853, Tate sold an interest to William Douglas Wallach who became sole owner in 1855. Thereafter, he shortened the name to the Evening Star and introduced the Sunday edition. The paper was noted for coverage of the Civil War and was long the paper of record for the Nation's Capital. After a run of 128 years, publication ceased in 1981.

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 73, Saturday, November 5th, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262.
Moderately tattered & creased, toned, foxed, lightly stained, signature in old ink at the top margin of "Rev. Joseph Glass," otherwise very good.
Previous owner Rev. Joseph Glass was one of five ministers who organized the Presbytery of Winchester, Virginia. He is cited in Graham's Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia.
This issue features lengthy reporting on current considerations in the House of Representatives involving the Louisiana Purchase. Also includes period advertising for, among other things, a run away slave:
"SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Montgomery County, near the Sugar-loaf… Read More

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 77, Saturday, December 3d, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262.
Moderately tattered & creased, last two letters in "Herald" at masthead rubbed, toned, foxed, lightly stained, signature in old ink at the top margin of "Rev. Jos. Glass," brief ink annotations in the margins, otherwise very good.
Previous owner Rev. Joseph Glass was one of five ministers who organized the Presbytery of Winchester, Virginia. He is cited in Graham's Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia.
This issue features lengthy reporting on current considerations in the House of Representatives involving the Louisiana Purchase. Also includes period advertising for, among other things, a run away slave:
"SIXTEEN DOLLARS… Read More

Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket.
Incudes:Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930;
Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957.
Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in two volumes. Volume four is in the original binding & price-clipped dust jacket which is faded at the spine, exhibits modest edge wear, & has a gift inscription at the front pastedown, withal, a useful set of an important treatise.
The author was professor of English & director of the school of journalism at the University of Iowa & thereafter Dean of the University of Missouri. Volumes II & IIi of this important set won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History. A fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968 & is not included in this group.
Shipping is at cost,… Read More

Washington D.C.: Human Events, Inc. Broken run, seven issues: Vol. xxii, no. 11, September 14, 1963; Vol. xxiv, no. 14, April 4, 1964; Vol. xxv, no. 18, May 1, 1965; Vol. xxv, no. 42, October 16, 1965; [Vol. xxv, no. 41 ?], November 6, 1965; Vol. xxv, no. 49, December 4, 1965; Vol. xxviii, no. 26, June 29, 1968. First editions. Tabloid newspapers, 16 inches by 11.25 inches, generally 16 pages each (one issue with 24 pp.), illustrated throughout. Each issue with the printed address label of subscriber Philip Miller Crane, later a congressman representing the eighth Illinois district from 1969 to 2005.
Moderately toned, occasional small stains, lightly tattered including a few short tears without loss, generally Very Good.
Phil Crane was a leading firebrand conservative until eclipsed by the ascendancy of Newt Gingrich.
"In reporting the news, Human Events is objective, it aims for accurate presentation of the facts. But it is not impartial. It looks at events through eyes that are biased in favor… Read More

Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. Pictorial stapled paper wraps..
Lowell, Massachusetts: Marden & Rowell, 1886. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4.75"), [4], [1] - 42, & [4] pages. Publisher's pictorial, staple paper wraps. OCLC locates two copies (accession # 70875262, Los Angeles Public Library; Williams College).
Worn: Lacking lower wrap, portion of one leaf excised costing recipes 66 & 71, edge wear including tears & small losses, soiled, foxed, & stained, manuscript annotations at the verso of the upper wrap & in the margins of the text, several leaves with corner crease, still useful & quite uncommon.
Please note, the pagination given in OCLC reflects 6 unnumbered pages following page 42. This copy has 4 pages but no evidence of lacuna.
"The recipes herewith given have all been carefully tried and proved, and the endeavor has been to give them in such language that nobody need be misled by them or fail to understand them ..." ~Excerpted from the preface.
Includes two pages of… Read More

London & New York: Phaidon Press, (2004). First edition. Square quarto (11.25" x 11.25"), 511 pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs, many in color. Publisher's glossy paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight wear at edges & spine extremities, front corners bruised, small nick in the front edge of the first blank leaf, otherwise very good or better in like dust jacket, with minor edge wear including a couple of nicks at the front fold which correspond to the corner bruising & some tiny spots on the verso which are also briefly evident on the rear flap.
"Magnum Stories explores how some of the world's greatest photographers take, edit and lay out pictures. Using the 'photo story' as a vehicle to explain their approach, the book features work by 61 members of the prestigious Magnum photo agency. A vast range of photographers are included, from Magnum's founders - Robert Capa, George Rodger, David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson - to the second and third generations… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, this a presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by Liebling at the ffep to Alger & Priscilla Hiss. 8vo (8.25" x 5.75"), 251 pages. Publisher's cloth-patterned yellow paper over boards lettered in brown on the spine, lacking the dust jacket.
Spine darkened, soiled, upper joint splitting, shallow loss at spne extremities, corners bruised & rubbed through, a worn but historically significant copy.
"For Alger and/ Priscilla Hiss,/ Joe Liebling,/ with friendship./ July 14, 1949."
The second collection of Liebling's articles critical of New York newspapers which were originally published in the NEW YORKER, this copy presented to Hiss & wife exactly one week after his first trial ended in a hung jury. During the course of the trial Liebling formed a warm friendship with the defendant, & thereafter aggressively criticized the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Dayton, Virginia: Shenandoah Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo, xiv, [2], & 613 pp, with frontis portrait & occasional illustrations in text. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover.
Binding lightly rubbed, gilt a bit dull, corners bumped, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
Author Pendleton (1847 - 1941) served in the 8th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War & was later the owner & editor of the Tazewell Republican.

Nicholasville, Kentucky: published by the author, July 15, 1883. First edition. Single sheet measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches folded to form 4 pages (2 pages blank). Old folds, moderate edge wear including short splits, toned & lightly foxed, Good or better.
Responding to an anonymously authored editorial published in the Central Courier of June 15, 1883, which is ascribed to then State Senator E.R. Sparks with the cooperation of editor Samuel Owen, Mr. Dickerson defends against a perceived attack on his father, Newton Dickerson, involving a lengthy business dispute: "The leading editorial headed "An Attack Upon Our Senator," looks very much like one of Bob Sparks' put up jobs Why don't you be a man and put your name to anything you write instead of trying to buy your editorials?" In closing, Dickerson notes that he has "no desire to persecute or misrepresent Mr Sparks" but he does not regard as persecution his effort to expose "a man who has made it a practice to swindle his fellow citizens."… Read More

Baltimore, Maryland: "Published every Monday, Wednesday & Friday by Charles Prentiss," Vol. II, No. 107, Friday, March 18, 1803. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 21.75 inches by 27 inches folded once horizontally forming 4 pages.
Old folds, tattered & creased, losses in the margins not affecting text, separated about half way at the vertical fold, toned & lightly foxed, a good or so copy & still quite useful.
A rare example of a short-lived Federalist newspaper published & presumably edited by Charles Prentiss who is described in the Encyclopedia Virginia as "a fiery Boston writer." In addition to political content reflective of the then defeated Federalist Party who lost to the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson, this issue includes poignant if now repulsive advertising:
"Twenty Dollars Reward.""RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, some time in November last, a NEGRO MAN, named Sam, he is about 24 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, well made, has some impediment in his… Read More

Columbia, South Carolina: State Printing Company, (1970). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated by the author ("Sam L") in ink at the half-title page to Cartha"Deke" DeLoach, then number 3 at the FBI. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25"), xv & 407 pages including numerous illustrations (some in color, some folding) Publisher's white cloth lettered in blue at the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Inscription faintly offsets to title page, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket, lightly browned, foxed & soiled mostly at the spine, with modest edge wear incuding short tears & small losses.
The author was the long-time editor & publisher of The State newspaper.
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach was deputy associate director of the FBI, the third highest ranking position behind only J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. In 1963, just after the assassination of John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson requested of Hoover that DeLoach be assigned to the White House. As described by New York Times reporter Tim Weiner… Read More

Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers, (1977) First edition Octavo (9.25" x 6"), 436 pp., profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's orange fabricoid lettered in Black, in pictorial dust jacketCovers with brief wear at corners & edges, previous owner's name in ink at front pastedown, offsetting at pastedown & ffep from news clipping, otherwise very good in moderately soiled & rubbed dust jacket with light edge wear including a couple of small losses, about very good.The author was sports reporter for the Trentonian newspaper in New Jersey.

No place, no publisher, no date (circa 1927). Quarto (11.75" x 9"), 16 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps, page one featuring a manipulated image from a photograph depicting the happy couple with goose. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 1/19/2024.
Folded once horizontally, browned, brittle, edge wear including short tears without loss, otherwise good or better.
Peaches Browning, nee Frances Belle Heenan, met real estate developer Edward West Browning when she was 15 & he was 51. With the permission of both her parents, the pair married on her 16th birthday. Just six months later, Peaches left the marital home & pursued a divorce which at the time was granted only for adultery. Alternatively, she sought legal separation & cited cruelty on the part of her husband as the cause. "Daddy" Browning responded with a counter-claim of abandonment. Peaches provided titillating details & seemed particularly disturbed that her husband kept a honking African goose in their bedroom. Ultimately, the… Read More

Woodstock, Virginia: Published by the N.F. McCann, Volume III, no. 11, Friday, July 7, 1882. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 26 inches by 39 inches folded once vertically & once horizontally forming 8 pages. Uncut.
Old folds, toned & foxed, moderately tattered (including creasing, closed tears & tiny losses), stain in the top & bottom margin, small rubber-stamped mark at the lower margin of the front page, otherwise good or better.
Published weekly from 1880 to 1890, this paper merged with the Strasburg News later in 1882 & was renamed The Virginian and News. Features politics, local news, & splendid, often illustrated advertisements.