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Ickes, Harold. Columnists and Calumnists. No place of publication stated: No publisher stated, 1939. 8 1/2 x 11 (216 x 280 mm) sheets, [1], 16 pages, printed on rectos only and stapled at top left.
Advance copy of an acerbic speech by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, in which he levels sustained, withering criticism of certain newspaper columnists (or "calumnists," as he calls them). He singles out Westbrook Pegler as well as General Hugh Johnson, both fierce opponents of President Roosevelt. (Johnson worked briefly in the Roosevelt administration but was fired because of his Fascist sympathies.) On the other hand, he praises the great Heywood Broun: "Here is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously and yet one who never pulls his punches, even if he chuckles as he lands on an eagerly outstretched chin."
His view of Dorothy Thompson is decidedly mixed. On the one hand, he calls her "a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground by setting… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith-Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 210 x 145 mm), 268 pages, in yellow cloth with a pictorial dust jacket. An unusual book aimed at guys who want to go from copy boy to ace reporter. Unusual in the sense that it combines both fiction and nonfiction. We follow Jerry, a likable copy boy on a New Jersey daily who puts up with coarse (and frankly awful) editors and pressmen but then gets his big chance to be a reporter. Journalists will enjoy the depiction of Matt Hale, the city editor, who communicates primarily through growling, screaming and banging his fist on his desk. Very entertaining; most journalists have known editors like Matt Hale. Illustrated with real newsroom and technical photographs of the day. SCARCE, especially in dust jacket. CONDITION: Light toning to page edges, heavier toning to paste downs, but clean and unmarked. The pictorial dust jacket has several shallow chips and tears, including a 1 1/2" tear with creasing to top edge of… Read More

New York: Sun Printing and Publishing Association, 1927. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 11, [1] pages in stapled wrappers. A short history of The Sun, founded in New York by Benjamin H. Day in 1833. The Sun was a trendsetter in American journalism, according to the media historian Edwin Emery. "Journalism began a new epoch on September 3, 1833, with the appearance of a strange little newspaper, The New York Sun (It Shines for ALL," he writes in The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media. "[M]ost of the material was trivial, flippant -- but highly readable. Most important, it was cheap. Within six months the Sun had a circulation of around 8,000, which was nearly twice that of its nearest rival." The Sun was sold in the street for only a penny and appealed especially to working-class readers with its mix of human-interest stories and emphasis on clear, lively (sometimes exaggerated) storytelling. It was also notable for relying largely on advertising rather than… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Third Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 inches; 240 x 150 mm), xxiv, 232 pages, in black cloth, titles to spine, red top stain, in a printed dust jacket. A letter inscribed by Janet Flanner is taped to the front end paper: "For Adele with friendly recollections and gratitude for a long memory. Faithfully, Janet Flanner, November 13 - '72." The letter is on Ritz Hotel Paris stationery. A collection of Flanner's articles from The New Yorker for 1925-1939. Flanner (1892-1978) used the pseudonym Genêt and wrote on a wide variety of political and cultural topics. This collection, edited by Irving Drutman, has pieces on Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Picasso, Gertrude Stein's art collection, lurid murder affairs, Paul Signac, gambling, the gathering clouds of war in the late 1930s, and much more. An engrossing and entertaining look at Paris between the wars by a young journalist who wrote a fortnightly "Letter From Paris" for The New… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1984. First American Edition. Octavo, 430 pages.INSCRIBED by Harold Evans on the title page: "For --- / With warm regards and / admiration, from the author / Harold Evans / Chicago 1984." A terrific autobiography. Under Evans's leadership, The Sunday Times of London campaigned on behalf of the victims of Thalidomide and broke the story about double agent Kim Philby. Evans also recounts his battles with Rupert Murdoch, who bought The Sunday Times and its sister paper, The Times.CONDITION: Near Fine, with a bit of soiling along the top and bottom edges. The dust jacket is lightly sunned along the edges and has a couple of nicks and tears. Overall, a nice copy. SCARCE SIGNED.