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HAMMERTON, J.A. (Sir John Alexander), 1871-1949 :

BOOKS AND MYSELF : MEMOIRS OF AN EDITOR.

London : Macdonald & Co., [1944]. First edition. The memoirs of the editor and journalist Sir John Hammerton, responsible for so much of the popular publishing of the period - "A Popular History of the Great War", "Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia", "Peoples of All Nations", "Our Wonderful World", "The New Popular Educator", "Punch Library of Humour", etc. With much on the Amalgamated Press, Alfred Harmsworth (Viscount Northcliffe), Arthur Mee, etc. Demy 8vo. (344)pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; small label removed from upper cover; a little marked and sunned; a good copy. With the ownership inscription of the late B. C. Bloomfield.

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