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BOK, EDWARD The Americanization of Edward Bok; The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1922.. Cloth backed boards, spine label; dust wrapper, slight chipping spine top and bottom, tear to front cover at top outside corner, small damp stains rear cover. No. 1066 of 1250 copies signed by author. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1920. (Epilogue added to this edition pages 453-462). Illustrations. Ink notation front end paper. Uncut page edges. Some unopened pages. 473 pages. Edward Bok was the editor of The Ladies Home Journal. Contents include: The First Days in America; The First Job -- Fifty Cents a Week; The Hunger for Self-Education; Going to the Theatre with Longfellow; A Plunge into Wall Street; Starting a Newspaper Syndicate; Association with Henry Ward Beecher; Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes; First Years as a Woman's Editor; Theodore Roosevelt's Influence; An Excursion into the Feminine Nature; Cleaning up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils; A War Magazine and War Activities; The End of Thirty Years' Editorship; Where America Fell Short with Me; What I Owe to America; etc.
Offered for US$ 47.50 by: Barry Cassidy Rare Books - Book number: 797
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