MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE ; November 1908 to April 1909 (including December, January, February, March); Vol. XXXII (32); nos 1-6; House of Mapuhi (London); Bibi Steinfeld's Hunting (Stuart); The Dwellers (Nesbit); On The Gull's Road (Cather); etc by Samuel Sidney McClure; Jack London, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Edgar Beecher Bronson, Elenor Stuart, Willa Sibert Cather, E. Nesbit, Witter Bynner, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta) Ward, et al - 1909

New York, New York: S.S. McClure Co, 1909. First Edition. Three-quarter leather over cloth. Very Good. Single bound volume--six issues with all editorial material, but ads and covers removed. Six complete original issues bound by a local library. An ex-library copy with markings to the endpapers and title page. Quarto, 9 3/4" tall, 680 pages, 3/4 leather over brown cloth. A very good clean, sturdy, ex-library copy overall, with small bookplate on front pastedown, fore-corner tips worn through to boards, paper moderately yellowed. McClure's was founded by Samuel Sidney McClure and John Sanborn Phillips in 1893 and quickly rose in popularity using quality fiction and substantial articles on timely topics which established the "Muckraking" standard of the age with original photography and illustration--the demise came slowly after Phillips and key writer Ida Tarbell left to establish the rival American Magazine in 1906. It was common pratice of the age for magazine publisher's to reprint editorial material in bound volumes before destroying the printer's plates for reuse.