Circulation Manager (15 results)

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Photographs/Drawings (illustrator). Textblock is clean and tight. Previous owner's inked name on front cover, wear along spine and to edges, lightly rubbed. 48pp Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Don Morton (Layout & Graphics); Peter Bailey (Art Director); Enrico Ferorelli (Photos); John Nakles (Calligraphy); Abby Seixas (Illustrations Photos); Ajit Mookerjee (Sketch); James Thurber (Calligraphic Image); William Blake (Etching) (illustrator). 164 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 4, No. 3, Summer 1990. 176 pp. Vol. 4, Number 3, Summer 1990 issue only! ISSN: 0891-3811. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly bound, and essentially, nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minor stains on bottom edge.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Photos (illustrator). Textblock is clean and tight. Lightly edge worn, wearing down the spine. 34p.; front cover shows Douglas A-20 Attack Bombers at Los Angeles Municipal Airport, awaiting delivery to the US Army; this issue has a multi-page article on beautiful, tranquil Hawaii, a mere nine months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the November1943 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors. Also in this issue: article New Orleans Recollections by R. [Roy] J. Carew; music "Got To Reach Tenths To Play These Blues" by Don Wilson (musical notes on eight treble and eight bass staff lines); four-page musical score "Cotton Bolls" by Chas. [Charles] Hunter; one-page The Record Value Project; one-page news from The Record Changer entitled "Lemme Take This Chorus" (i.e., "Bob Thiele, editor of 'Jazz' magazine, has just had his appendix carved" - "Don Anderson, hottest artist in the country, has just signed a most attractive contract with the U.S. Government"). Single staple age-rusted.

Magazine. Condition: Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1945 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors. Also in this issue: article ESQUIRE 1945 by Nesuhi Ertegun (with topics: The Esquire Jazz Concert; The Esquire [Magazine] Jazz Number); article From Jazz to Swing: Conclusion of the Anthropology of Jazz by Ernest Borneman; column Questions and Answers by Ernest Borneman; article Philippine Philippic by Master Sergeant Geo. [George] M. Avakian; short one-column Jazz in Los Angeles by George Montgomery; jazz news Manhattan Melange by Herman Rosenberg; jazz and Record Changer news column Lemme Take This Chorus by Gordon Gullickson. Staples age-rusted; light water and pink stains to the lower edges of the front cover and first few pages (not affecting text); outer covers show periodic edge and corner wear, lightly age-browned, light to moderately soiled, tiny chip to lower outer spine fold.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1943 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 32 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors. Also in this issue: article Jazz in Paris by Nesuhi Ertegun; article New Orleans Recollections by R. [Roy] J. Carew; two-page column from The Record Changer entitled "Lemme Take This Chorus" (which discusses the booklet by Iain Lang entitled 'Background of the Blues,' in particular the common fallacies Mr. Lang corrects in his booklet: 1. Jazz is jungle music; 2. The underworld created jazz; and 3. Jazz is a product of this or that race, and no other race plays real jazz). Single staple age-rusted; very narrow water stain to lower edges of last few pages (not affecting the text).

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1944 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, this issue does not contain any articles or columns (as stated to inside front cover, "We regret that the printing of the reading material scheduled for this issue of The Record Changer must be deferred to the December issue. EDITOR"). As such, the issue is entirely devoted to lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors and advertisements from record companies (Blue Note Records and Columbia Records), and dealers in collectible records. Staples age-rusted; covers show light corner wear, light age-browning, particularly along edges.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the July 1943 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers (including the two-page classified ad ordering blank). With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted or For Disposition [for sale] by collectors. Also in this issue: article New Orleans Recollections: Of a Few Things That Went With 1905 New Orleans Jazz by R. [Roy] J. Carew; column J. I. [Jazz Information] In Exile by Eugene [Bernard] Williams (which contains a transcript of Side B and Side C of "Buck Johnson's Talking Records"); article Old Hutch [Harvey Hutchinson] And the Blues And the Original Rib Joint by Tom Williston. Single staple age-rusted.

Soft cover. Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1,316 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ creases to spine and corners. Approx. 1 1/4" closed tear at bottom edge of front cover w/ old tape repair; approx. 1" closed tear at bottom edge of rear cover. "Parker & Co. International Inc." stamp on foredge of text block. Illust. w/ b/w photos and advertisements. Contents nice.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the September 1944 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-3/8" by 8-3/8" and containing 60 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors. Also in this issue: article New Orleans - August, 1944 by William Russell (with two photos, including "Bunk Johnson and Band Playing at San Jacinto's Dance Hall"); Chicago Documentary: Portrait of a Jazz Era by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. ("Note for Chicago Documentary" - Part II. Dixieland, Rhythm Kings, Chicagoans - containing the text from the documentary); article Afro-American Music: Chapter Six of the 'Anthropology of Jazz' by Ernest Borneman; article Scott Joplin: Overlooked genius by Roy J. Carew and Pvt. Don E. Fowler; column Questions and Answers by Ernest Borneman; article Featherbed Ball by Ralph J. Gleason (on Leonard Feather); King Oliver [Joseph Nathan Oliver] and His Dixie Syncopators by Eugene Williams (with discography: Part One, Chicago Recordings; Part Two, New York Recordings); jazz news Manhattan Melange by Herman Rosenberg; column from The Record Changer entitled "Lemme Take This Chorus" by Gordon Gullickson (which discusses some of the readership letters he has received on various topics). Staples age-rusted; covers lightly age-browned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Don Anderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1945 issue of "The Record Changer" edited and published by Gordon Gullickson out of Fairfax, Virginia. A left-edge stapled magazine measuring 5-3/8" by 8-1/2" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. With outstanding front cover artwork by Don Anderson, Staff Artist, the issue contains lists of largely jazz and blues records Wanted and For Disposition [for sale] by collectors, as well as Auction announcements from music vendors. Also in this issue: article From Minstrelsy to Jazz: Chapter Nine of the Anthropology of Jazz by Ernest Borneman; jazz news Jelly-Roll was Right by "Jazzbo Brown" ("America for the Americans! Jazzo Brown is fed up with all these foreigners who become jazz critics at the drop of a California Ramblers record"); full-page ad from the National Jazz Foundation, Inc.; two-page centerfold advertisement from Columbia Records (offering "blues by [Count] basie"); New Records (review of "Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band" by Bill Riddle); jazz news Manhattan Melange by Herman Rosenberg; short article Jazz in Los Angeles by George Montgomery. Staples age-rusted; covers show light corner wear, lightly age-browned along the edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, periodical, (VG-), Bedlam, 190 Lexington Avenue, New York, 1934, (Note on rear cover: Printed from linotype on a job press by the by the People s Printing Co., 659 Sixth Ave., New York, N. Y.), unpaginated - 12 pages, b&w cover illustration: The Farm by Jacob Heller, 7.25 in. x 10.50 in., cover and pages are thick paper, bound with three center staples, corners and spine ends rubbed, crease to front lower corner, one short closed tear and one small chip to top edge of front cover, covers show a little slight soil, small light pencil notation on upper rear cover, minor soil to a very few pages, otherwise contents clean and tight, flyer for production of performances reviewed in the magazine laid-in (thin paper, split at creases into 3 pieces prior to our acquiring the magazine), item protected in new clear plastic sleeve, Very Good Minus {Magazine possibly produced by New York Public Library staff, or the NYPL Staff Association. Contents: Amateur Farming; The Fireman and the Heiress Again, by Laura W. Hulse (a review of the revival of the two plays by the Staff of the NYPL); This Little Girl, by Leighton Laird; humorous note about Allen and Burns; The Homecoming, by Helen Fromovich; Song of the Fool, by C. J.; Motto, by Tom O Bedlam; Tid Bits, by Russell Freeman; A Bloody Library, by Richard M. de Plata.} 5229 [Ho0121JH] Please feel free to contact us with questions about our books - we are happy to provide further information!

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, periodical, (G+), Inscribed on cover by Freeman, Bedlam, 14 West 121st Street, New York City, 1932, 15 pages, illustrated with one small b&w photo, 6 in. x 9.25 in., pale green paper covers with b&w titles and decoration, cover illustration is The Little Courier by Durer (now in The Met, it is noted here as being from the Frederick Keppel Galleries), one word of inscription on front is smudged, slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, a few slight creases, light scuffing and soil to covers, contents clean and tight, item protected in new clear plastic sleeve, Good Plus {Magazine address is in Harlem, and item was possibly produced by New York Public Library staff, or the NYPL Staff Association. Contents: The Spinning Discs, by P. L. Miller; Perambulator, by Karl Brown; I Passed the Garden of My Friend s Delight, by E. E.; A Southern Spring Festival, by Conchy; College Song, by Samuel Sass; The New York Fireman and the Bond Street Heiress, by Russell Freeman (notice that Staff Assoc. would be presenting the two plays); The Library's Backyard, by L. C., By the Way, which includes doggerel by O. W. Holmes; I. R. T., by Marshall Schact; New Books, by R. N. and R. F.; Museum Murder, by Stanley Sennwald; Migration, by Alice Byrd; Incompatibility, by Benjamin Philips.} 5228 [Ho0121JH] Please feel free to contact us with questions about our books - we are happy to provide further information!

Condition: Very Good. The Florida Times-Union Newsboy Subscription and Havana, Cuba Prize-Trip Archive. [An Unusually Complete, Illustrated Social History of Depression-Era Adolescent Labor, Gamified Corporate Marketing, and Pre-Batista Caribbean Tourism, 1932-1934]. DESCRIPTION Jacksonville, Florida and Havana, Cuba: Privately Compiled, 1932-1934. Multi-format archive containing original disbound scrapbook leaves, loose manuscript items, and printed media. This comprehensive, visually striking authorial archive maps the exact mechanical, psychological, and financial operations of a major Southern newspaper circulation drive during the depths of the Great Depression. Assembled by Phil Turner, the circulation manager and direct chaperone for the winning carriers, the collection preserves over 60 individual pieces of highly ephemeral documentation. The archive charts the trajectory of the 1934 contest from its initial high-concept, illustrated cartoon motivational flyers distributed to the newspaper's carrier network, through regional newspaper coverage, federal immigration processing, and the final audited expense ledgers of the journey to Havana. It stands as an unrecorded, highly complex micro-history of Depression-era adolescent labor, mature youth culture, corporate motivation strategies, and American-Cuban tourism prior to the Fulgencio Batista regime. It stands as an unrecorded, highly complex micro-history of youth labor culture, corporate motivation strategies, and American-Cuban tourism prior to the Fulgencio Batista regime. KEY FEATURES +++ Visuals: Features multiple large, brightly colored mimeograph or multi-pass printed broadsides utilizing striking cartoon iconography, historical metaphors, and high-pressure sales narratives. +++ Binding: Housed on its original large-format, black heavy-gauge punch-card scrapbook sheets (now disbound), alongside a significant cache of loose letters and receipts. +++ Media & Formats: Comprises illustrated carrier-motivation flyers, typed letters signed (TLS) from educational and international tourism entities, original Western Union telegrams, newsprint clippings mounted to stock, and stamped port authority documents. +++ Specs: The collection contains over 60 unique pieces; largest sheets measure approximately 8.5 x 14.0 inches; includes the original large-format silver gelatin arrival photograph mounted directly to a black scrapbook page. +++ Internal Operations: Contains a substantial cache of internal memoranda and executive correspondence on Florida Times-Union letterhead, tracking the corporate ecosystem of a mid-Depression media company. THE RULE OF DISTINCTION +++ Transcription Anchor: Includes an original typed letter on official Comisión Nacional del Turismo letterhead, dated September 16, 1934, from Habana, Cuba, signed by President Alberto Crusellas, addressing the arrival of the carriers: "I have learned that you are preparing a party of about fifty newsboys to visit Havana, around Christmas time. it gives me great pleasure to extend to you all a most cordial invitation to visit our City." +++ Audited Ledger Account: Contains Phil Turner's original, hand-inked, and signed "Florida Publishing Company Expense Account" ledger sheet dated January 5, 1935, documenting the literal costs of the trip from December 27 to January 1, itemizing expenses such as: "Meals on Train going & return $10.00," "Tours - City, Country, Night and Morro Castle $20.52," and specific notes on allocations given directly to the boys. +++ Primary Transit Documentation: Preserves Phil Turner's original Cuban Department of Immigration passenger identification card (Tarjeta de Identificación del Pasajero Turista), stamped via Tampa, Florida, on December 28, 1934, complete with an attached ticket stub from the Balneario "La Playa" Mariana (Havana Bathing Beach), numbered 0183. +++ Management Correspondence: Includes intimate executive-to-manager letters addressed directly to Phil Turner, including official congratulations on his professional promotion, high-level corporate apologies reassuring him of his standing, and explicit, high-pressure directives detailing the strict subscription quotas his newsboys were required to hit to justify the Havana expedition. CONDITION Overall Grade: Very Good / Excellent Archival Survival : THE ARCHIVE - +++The disbound black scrapbook sheets remain stable and structurally sound, with punch holes intact and clean edges. +++The mounted newspaper clippings show expected uniform browning but remain completely flexible and non-brittle. +++ The loose correspondence sheets show standard horizontal mailing folds and minor edge-wear, with age toning but the signatures are clear, dark, and perfectly legible. Some correspondence is fragile but maintained in sleeves. +++ The primary illustrated broadsides are remarkably preserved, exhibiting bright, unfaded greens, reds, and golds in their graphics, completely free from significant tears or damp-staining. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - This archive provides a rare, unvarnished look at the intersection of media exploitation, corporate psychology, and youth labor during the Great Depression. In an era when a paper route represented critical family survival rather than pocket change, the Florida Times-Union implemented aggressive marketing drives that treated these older adolescents as frontline corporate sales executives. The departure photography within the archive provides critical visual evidence of this demographic shift: the winning carriers are depicted not as young children, but as poised, well-dressed young men in mature contemporary attire. The illustrated motivational broadsides within this collection ("TEETH," "As You Sow You Reap," "Keep Digging") show how corporate entities used sophisticated narrative concepts-metaphors of shark hunting, the engineering of the Panama Canal, and ancient mythology-to drive these young men to hit intense commercial quotas. Beyond the marketing metrics, the archive transitio.