DEADLINES: Being The Quaint The Amusing The Tragic Memoirs of a News-Room
by SMITH, Henry Justin
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- Hardcover
- first
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 249 pages, clothbacked boards, dampstain to lower quarter of top cover, a few lower corners bumped
Smith was the Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, and a legend himself. DEADLINES "is a fictional series of sketches of life in the big city newsroom." [ Chicago In Story, p.181 ]. "So it goes, the dim procession of the days and nights, illumined by great flares from the world beyond. The presses roar endlessly, in time with the eternity of the news." Those are the final lines of this book, ironically, a century later, soon to be dead lines. They are followed by the coda: "The End". Clearly Smith did not foresee the changes that would occur a mere century later. One character allegely was inspired by Carl Sandburg, the "young-man-going-somewhere", ( chapter V - as opposed to chapter VIII, "The Poet").
Smith was the Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, and a legend himself. DEADLINES "is a fictional series of sketches of life in the big city newsroom." [ Chicago In Story, p.181 ]. "So it goes, the dim procession of the days and nights, illumined by great flares from the world beyond. The presses roar endlessly, in time with the eternity of the news." Those are the final lines of this book, ironically, a century later, soon to be dead lines. They are followed by the coda: "The End". Clearly Smith did not foresee the changes that would occur a mere century later. One character allegely was inspired by Carl Sandburg, the "young-man-going-somewhere", ( chapter V - as opposed to chapter VIII, "The Poet").
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020149
- Title
- DEADLINES
- Author
- SMITH, Henry Justin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Covici-McGee
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- newspapers, journalism, editing, burton rascoe, Eugene Field, Chicago Daily News, Ben Hecht, Henry Justin Smith, Carl Sandburg, chicago
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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