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...Colophon (gilt-edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...copy desk the bulletin went for editing and headlines. Copy-readers, some in the service of the paper for decades, leaned across their desks to see for themselves. With the speed of bad news, the word flashed from the tower of the ugly, gilt-domed old Pulitzer Building to the press rooms in the basement. Startled clerks from the circulation office, grimy printers from below, made for the city room to confirm the horrid report. . . . Was this, after 48 years, to be the end of the great, crusading World? Were their jobs not, as they had confidently believed, held secure...
...price to one shilling. Then an unprecedented thing for so great a company occurred: a large block changed hands at zero. The owner paid the transfer tax, making the sale actually below zero. By the close of the day the common was back at five shillings. But the once gilt-edge 6½% preferred which had been at 60 shillings in the morning did not rally, closed the day at the ignoble price...
Point cadet. Three small pencil portraits in battered gilt frames arrived in New York last week to remind people that Edgar Allan Poe was also an artist and a draughtsman...
...Charter. Protected from the bright glare of modern electric lamps by a heavy cloth, the precious parchment reposes safely beneath locked show cases. But by simply folding back this covering the curious may inspect as they will this aged treasure of the College as it lies in its gilt frame behind crimson curtains. It is the original charter of 1650 granted by the General Court of the Colony and signed by the Governor, Thomas Dudley. "The Christian Warfare against the Devil World and Flesh," sole survivor of John Harvard's library, is another prized possession of the treasure room...