AP The Story of News
by Gramling, Oliver
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Henry C. Barrow. Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black and gilt lettering. 506 pages with index. Illustrated by Henry C. Barrow. This book covers the (what was then) hundred years of history the AP Press had witnessed. A "fast-moving, action-filled narrative of the rise of The Associated Press--the inside story of the only world-wide non-profit news gathering association as it grew from pigeon post and pony express to telegraph and wireless, with a daily news report of over 1,000,000 words and its spot-news picture system which shoots newspaper photographs by electricity across the globe." Short tear to top of spine cloth, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Record # 384881
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 384881
- Title
- AP The Story of News
- Author
- Gramling, Oliver
- Illustrator
- Henry C. Barrow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Business, Journalism, Henry C. Barrow, .
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