How To Write: The Little Schoolmaster for Literary Workers (Lot of 8 Issues 1906-1907)

Wm. (William) C. Sprague (Editor) Assisted by The Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism, Detroit, Michigan

Published by The Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism, Detroit, MI, 1906

About this Item

Offered is a lot of eight issues of "How To Write: The Little Schoolmaster for Literary Workers" from 1906 and 1907 edited by Wm. (William) C. Sprague and published by The Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism out of Detroit, Michigan. A stapled magazine measuring approximately 6-1/8" by 9" and containing 24 pages each. The issues are: May 1906 (Vol. 8 No. 12); June 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 1); July 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 2); August 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 3); September 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 4); November 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 6); December 1906 (Vol. 9 No. 7); and February 1907 (Vol. 9 No. 9). With articles, instructional lessons, columns, and contributions from readers. Articles include Editor [Norman] Hapgood [editor of Collier's Weekly] Finds Flaws in the Dailies; Aspirant for Literary Fame Must Travel Up-Hill Road; Chances of the Young Writer; The Joke and Its Surroundings; The Proofreader; When Journalism Becomes Literature; Country Journalism as a Profession; Newspaperdom; Gossip About Novels and Novelists; How the Wicked Editors Wrong Unknown Writers; The Mistakes of Young Writers; Advice to Amateur Poets. With lengthy columns "Our Experience Meeting" by various contributors (on a variety of writing and publishing topics) and the "Art and Practice of Journalism" by Frederic Reddale. Staples light to moderately rusted to most issues; the May 1906 issue is worn and edge-chipped (to blank margins only); the other seven issues are in Very Good or better condition. Seller Inventory # 015255

Bibliographic Details

Title: How To Write: The Little Schoolmaster for ...

Publisher: The Sprague Correspondence School of Journalism, Detroit, MI

Publication Date: 1906

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition