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An Adventure with a Genius : Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
by Ireland, Alleyne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
E. P. Dutton & Company, 1920-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Original gray cloth covered boards with red lettering on cover and along spine; mild sun fading along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for memorial library bookplate on front inside cover. Deckled fore-edge. No dust jacket but inside flaps included. 236pp. Reprint edition. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Synopsis
From the book:A long illness, a longer convalescence, a positive injunction from my doctor to leave friends and business associates and to seek some spot here a comfortable bed and good food could be had in convenient proximity to varied but mild forms of amusement - and I found myself in the autumn of the year 1910 free and alone in the delightful city of Hamburg. All my plans had gone down wind, and as I sat at my table in the Cafe Ziechen, whence, against the background of the glittering blue of the Alster, I could see the busy life of the Alter Jungfernstieg and the Alsterdamm, my thoughts turned naturally to the future. It is not the easiest thing in the world to reconstruct at forty years of age the whole scheme of your life; but my illness, and other happenings of a highly disagreeable character, had compelled me to abandon a career to which I had devoted twenty years of arduous labor; and the question which pressed for an immediate answer was: What are you going to do now? Various alternatives presented themselves. There had been a suggestion that I should take the editorship of a newspaper in Calcutta; an important financial house in London had offered me the direction of its interests in Western Canada; a post in the service of the Government of India had been mentioned as a possibility by certain persons in authority.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Imperial Books and Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032722
- Title
- An Adventure with a Genius : Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
- Author
- Ireland, Alleyne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Date Published
- 1920-01-01
- Weight
- 0.31 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- History:Biography:Autobiography;
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