Small format (approximately 6x9) newspaper, original and complete but disbound from a larger volume. Each issue 16 pp. consecutively numbered.The Niles Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore from 1811 to 1848. The most widely circulated magazine of its time, the Register was the nation's first weekly newsmagazine and exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse. This is a broken run of ten issues from March 25-April 8 [3]; May 6-May 13 [2], and June 3-June 24 [5]. Contents include extensive news and commentary on the final weeks of the War of 1812, the... View More...
1st hardcover edition. 8vo, tan cloth. 445, [3 advts.] pp.
Sinclair makes "a systematic and incriminating critique of the severe limitations of the 'free press' in the United States. Sinclair called The Brass Check 'the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written.' Among those critiqued was William Randolph Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widespread newspaper and magazine business. The text is freely available on the Internet, since Sinclair chose not to copyright the work in an effort to maximize its readership. It went through ten printings in its f... View More...
“California Gold. Important Official Report.” In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath. Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3.”Colonel Richard B. Mason’s famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks as one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Gold Rush.” (Kurutz 105) “One day Mr. Marshall, as he was walking own the race to this deposit of mud, observed some glittering particles at its upper edge…” [from the Report). This issue was printed just three days after the “Message from t... View More...
3 issues of German POW Newspaper “Rundschau” / Camp Myles Standish, Mass.
Dec 1945 26 pp.; No. 11 Jan 1946 10 pp.; Jan 26 1946 22 pp.
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Black mimeograph on newsprint, stapled at left. 8-1/2x11”. News summaries, essays, poems, camp announcements, drawing-contest-winners' artwork, humor and puzzles
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Condition: very good; toning as expected for pulp newspapers View More...
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