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The Letters of Harry Peyton Steger 1899-1912
by Harry Peyton Steger
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 383 pages. Condition Fair Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1915. Handsome teal boards with white spine and gold embossing on this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book worn with bumped corners, decayed spine and significant shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Steger was born in Moscow, Tennessee, in 1883. After attending public schools there he entered the University of Texas. Following his graduation, he attended the Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and later went to Johns Hopkins. Harry Steger worked as a journalist both in England and in America. He was also a literary adviser to Doubleday, Page & Co., literary executor of O. Henry, and editor of Short Stories Magazine.
When Porter died in 1910, Steger was executor of his estate as well as his literary executor. During research for an O. Henry biography, Steger uncovered an almost complete file of Porter's Rolling Stone newspaper. He wrote the introduction for Rolling Stones (1913), the twelfth of a fourteen-volume set of O. Henry's complete works.
Excerpt from The Letters of Harry Peyton Steger: 1899-1912
In a letter to Steger's father, Mr. Booth Tarkington said: Harry Peyton Steger was the most Splendid young man I have ever known. If he had lived he would have become the foremost publisher in America.
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- Seller
- River House Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656313
- Title
- The Letters of Harry Peyton Steger 1899-1912
- Author
- Harry Peyton Steger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas
- Place of Publication
- Austin, TX
- Date Published
- 1915
- Pages
- 383
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Americana;
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Have some dust jackets to sell? Drop me a line!
I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
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