Ap: the Story of News by Gramling, Oliver

Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Very nice copy, neat and clean, in bright if a bit edgeworn jacket under fresh mylar.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Henry C. Barrow. Rinehart monogram on copyright page. Perhaps the best history of the newspaper to that date, well researched and with an extensive index. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with mild jacket edge rubbing in a Brodart jacket cover.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. [1940], 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-506 pp. Red cloth with lettering in gold and black on the front board and spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a portrait of the author, an in-text woodcut, and several plates: black and white drawings of scenes from the history of the Associated Press. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. This covers the (what was then) hundred years of history the AP Press had witnessed: "the inside story of the only world-wide non-profit news-gathering association as it grew from pigeon post and pony express to telegraph and wireless". The author covers stories of journalists who suffered and died to cover events like the Spanish Civil War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Spanish American War, and the First World War. A moving history of journalism, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book with minor offsetting to the… Read More