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Johnson, Gerald W., Frank R. Kent, H.L. Mencken, and Hami...

THE SUNPAPERS OF BALTIMORE, 1837-1937.

1937 1st 21 pp. photos and illustrations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. Centennial history of The Sun and its various subsidiary newspapers, the respected Baltimore journalistic institution that played a particularly vital role in city political reforms during the 1880s and '90s. Includes a list of officers, correspondents, carriers and employees of the Sunpapers on January 1, 1937. A member of the Sunpapers staff from 1907 to 1948, H.L. Mencken's contribution to this work amounts to roughly 160 pages covering the Sun's history from the 1890's through the 1910s. Signed by Johnson, Kent, Mencken, and Owens on the front flyleaf. Some browning from previously laid in material to the inner margin of the half-title. Boards somewhat rubbed and lightly worn, especially along the spine; otherwise a very good copy.

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