Deadlines by Smith, Henry Justin

Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 249 pages, clothbacked boards, dampstain to lower quarter of top cover, a few lower corners bumped Smith was the Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, and a legend himself. DEADLINES "is a fictional series of sketches of life in the big city newsroom." [ Chicago In Story, p.181 ]. "So it goes, the dim procession of the days and nights, illumined by great flares from the world beyond. The presses roar endlessly, in time with the eternity of the news." Those are the final lines of this book, ironically, a century later, soon to be dead lines. They are followed by the coda: "The End". Clearly Smith did not foresee the changes that would occur a mere century later. One character allegely was inspired by Carl Sandburg, the "young-man-going-somewhere", ( chapter V - as opposed to chapter VIII, "The Poet"). 

Chicago, IL: Covici-McGee, 1923. Third printing. Hardcover. 249 pages. An about very good copy with a small tear to the top of the title page near the spine, some wear to the spine and corners. No dust jacket. Signed by Smith on the front free endpaper in 1927.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1923. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to American journalist Edgar Mowrer: "To Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Ansel Mowrer / with sincere friendship / Henry Justin Smith / Oct. 21, '23." Considered by many to be "the dean of American foreign correspondents," Edgar Mowrer was born in Bloomington in 1892. He began working as a reporter in France in 1914, having been pressed into service alongside his brother, the first journalist to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence in 1929. Perceiving the growing power of the Nazi Party, Mowrer began reporting on the rise of Adolf Hitler, publishing day-by-day dispatches from Berlin that would win him a Pulitzer Prize in 1933. Viewed as a serious threat to Nazi power, Mowrer became the first American correspondent to be driven from Germany, taking a post in Paris, where he remained until France's defeat by German forces in 1940. An outspoken antifascist, Mowrer returned to the US and gave lectures about the dangers of… Read More