Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas if he has no income apart from his business (like myself) a bookseller must live and make a profit, this end may be relegated to a minor position. A bookseller who is at the same time a book-lover and a bookman, may achieve a dual end; to enjoy his work and his association with books, and to impart some of his enthusiasm and what knowledge he may have to the younger or the less experienced. These objects if pursued make this the most fascinating of professions...
...been sitting in the editorial chair for six months, since outgoing Editor Swanson took leave of absence to try his hand at the film business. She is "the kind of woman editor who can tie up loose ends." Her first job, in 1921, was in the advertising department of Bookman, under Stanley Marshall Rinehart Jr.; her next, as assistant to Editor John Chipman Farrar. Farrar & Rinehart later published her first novel, Big Business Girl, co-authored by Editor Swanson. After Bookman was sold Mrs. Foster worked for the George H. Doran Co.. selling film and serial rights of their...
...ready to stand by the doctrines which he had been advancing many years previous to their popular revival in America. "On Being Creative" includes essays and lectures written and delivered in the intervening period; one was delivered at the University of Toronto; others appeared in the Bookman, the Nineteenth Century and After, and the Forum...
Persons who are literary-minded read magazines like The Bookman, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Colophon, But the booklover and the average reader may be completely different persons. To serve the varied interests of those who patronize bookstores a new monthly magazine appeared last week called Gentle Reader, "a single periodical that would keep [the average reader] completely in touch with the world of books and also present to him within the same covers all the reasonable diversions of modern life...
...Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest signatures to forge. Careful Bookman Wells took his pictures to the leading Poe authority in the U. S., Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College. Dr. Mab-bott was enthusiastic, authenticated the signatures, referred to a landscape by Poe in the Poe cottage at Richmond, quoted a letter from Poe to his mother to prove...