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MEMORIES OF A PUBLISHER 1865-1915 SIGNED

1915réf. 984New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1915. First edition. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xii 492 10. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and blind stamp border to front. A selection from the catalogue of G. P. Putnam's Sons 10pp appendix on The European War World War I index. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author by Vanderwyde with tissue guard. Inscribed in violet blue pencil at top of fly leaf "To Colonel W. D. Mann with the cordial regards of Geo. Haven Putnam Oct. 1915 faint blind imprint of this inscription on the following page. A 1/2 x 1/2 inch triangular bump to the bottom right of the front board. Minor bumping and shelf scuffing to other corners and edges. Top edge of pages gold gilt fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Newspaper still present toning to front end papers and faint print to rfep top left corner from a bookseller's label. A couple of dog-eared pages. Two margin markings with colored pencil- unclear whether these markings were made by Putnam or Colonel Mann. Otherwise text is unmarked. Binding solid firm tight. Colonel W. D. Mann served in the 7th Michigan Cavalry in the Civil War and had been appointed to the Board of Visitors to the West Point Military Acadamy in 1899 by President McKinley. He later became a businessman and newspaper publisher. George Haven Putnam was born in London where his father had been living since1841. In 1848 the family returned to the United States settling at Stapleton New York on Staten Island. He studied at American and European Universities and traveled widely in Europe. With the outbreak of the Civil War he left university without graduating to return home to serve in the Union Army. At the war's end Major Putnam joined his father's publishing business "G. Putnam Broadway." On his father's death in 1872 George H. Putnam and his brothers John Bishop and Irving took over the business renaming it G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1899 he married Emily James Smith. George H. Putnam retired in 1924 formally handing over the presidency of the publishing house to Palmer C. Putnam. He died in 1930 age 85. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover

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