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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BALDWIN, JAMES.
The Devil Finds
Work.
8vo, original cloth-backed boards, in a dust jacket with a little wear to the edge of
the front flap.
FIRST EDITION
,
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BALDWIN
WITH LOVE FOR LON
FROM JIMMY
.”
NewYork, 1976
[300/400]
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.
Grin! Chuckle!
Over “Damaged Goods,” by Octavus Roy Cohen in the Saturday Evening Post, 5¢.
Cloth point-of-purchase banner, 34-1/2x44-1/2 inches with brass grommets at each corner.
New Jersey: Sweeney Litho Co, [1925]
[1,500/2,500]
A RARE SURVIVAL OF A ONCE POPULAR MANNER OF ADVERTISING FOR AMERICA
S
MAGAZINES
.
At one time, special articles or series appearing in magazines like the Saturday
Evening Post would have banners such as this placed at larger newsstands.Today, with the
Internet and other media in competition,America’s once thriving newspaper empires like that
of Hearst and Gannett are barely hanging on.
LITERATURE & POETRY
LOTS 356-368
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