Mcdevitt William Editor (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First issue with even tanning, some creasing at corners, chip top edge.light occassional soil; 8 issues, most at the end, with top spine tip chewed; volume 5, no. 1 with foxing/staining top edge.; 8pp. Each except first voume of 4 pages; folded stapled sheets, most of coated stock; four on newsprint. Including: 17 issues Californiana, a consecutive run No. 1, May 1927 to No. 12, 1928 (last issue with one photograph on last page) ; vol. II, no.' s 1,2,3,5,6. Biblio-Ana 12 issues, Vol. III, no. 1 thru 12 1931-32; Book Collecting: 24 issues; vol. 4, no. 1 - 13, missing no. 7; vol. 5, 1 thru 12 plus an issue of Bargain Dollar Catalog. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; William McDevitt was an author, bookseller, and Socialist political agitator who operated bookstores on Sutter and Fillmore streets in San Francisco for more than forty years in the first half of the twentieth century. He was an active public orator on Socialist issues and a pamphleteer on both literary and political subjects. In addition to his literary and bookselling activities, McDevitt was politically active both as a member of the Socialist Party and as an election commissioner while James Rolph was Mayor of San Francisco. He and Upton Sinclair became correspondents based upon McDevitt carrying Sinclair's works in his bookstore and their shared interests in Socialist politics (University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center). His idiosyncratic catalogs are full of the commentary on the above subjects, reflections and articles on the book trade, etc. , together with neologisms, puns, riddles. This in 1932 way before the cell phone: "Recently we had NINE orders for one item listed in our jurnalog. Proves that BOOK-COLLECTING gets the order if the price is attractive. Why not share in such goodreturns by listing a fu of ur items in BOOK-COLLECTING? ".

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 328 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.