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From newsletter 21:
15. HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page ('Library of Robert A. Hall'), but a very good copy of a sturdy work.
€ 40
* Detailed, technical study of electric railway transportation
104 years ago.
16. HERRICK, Robert Two typescript letters to Saul K. Padover about Upton Sinclair, signed, dated '30 Dec. 27' and '7 January 1928'. Two folded leaves of blue green paper, typed on one side only (each). 21,5 x 14,0 cm. 15 and 9 lines. Some fingering and glue marks.
€ 45
* Letters by the ageing novelist (1868-1938) to youthful
author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981), who had written an article
about Herrick's book Waste (1924). 'Mr. Upton Sinclair
has sent me your letter to him in which you refer so warmly to my "Waste".
... 'I judge that our views about "Money Writes" [by Sinclair,
1927] are much the same, - that the criticism of individual writers
is discerning and courageous but the philosophy oversimplified.' Also
about Herrick's resignation as a professor in Chicago.
From newsletter 13:
11. HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page (‘Library of Robert A. Hall’), but a very good copy of a sturdy work.
€ 50
* Detailed, technical study of electric
railway transportation 104 years ago.
From newsletter 12:
9. HERRICK, Robert Two typescript letters to Saul K. Padover about Upton Sinclair, signed, dated '30 Dec. 27' and '7 January 1928'. Two folded leaves of blue green paper, typed on one side only (each). 21,5 x 14,0 cm. 15 and 9 lines. Some fingering and glue marks.
€ 50
* Letters by the ageing novelist
to youthful author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981), who had written
an article about Herrick's book Waste (1924). 'Mr. Upton Sinclair
has sent me your letter to him in which you refer so warmly to my "Waste".
... 'I judge that our views about Letters by the ageing novelist to
youthful author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981). "Money
Writes" [by Sinclair, 1927] are much the same, - that the criticism
of individual writers is discerning and courageous but the philosophy
oversimplified.' Also about Herrick's resigning as a professor in Chicago.
