jazz (not music)--1911?

[Jonathan Lighter]

The reference to "listening to the blah-blah of the radio" places the ad
text in the 1920s, probably after 1922.

JL

JL
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I found another volume in the series, this one with copyright date 1912,
> but
> published in 1928 (the big hint is the list of books at the end that is "to
> be published January 1929" or later). Still, this says nothing about the
> date of the other book.
>
> VS-)
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:31 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > I am not going to pretend that this is a clear example. The book was
> indeed
> > published in 1911, but there is absolutely no way to ascertain when this
> > copy was printed. The citation can be found on the very last printed page
> of
> > the book, in the self-promotion by the publisher--the kind of advertising
> > sheet that could have been added at any printing. And this one has
> nothing
> > to with music either.
> >
> > http://goo.gl/cNpef
> > Dick Merriwell's Commencement. Or, The Last Week at Yale. The Merriwell
> > Series No. 200. By Burt L. Standish. 1911
> > [inside back cover--Street & Smith advertising]
> >
> >> Read the Street & Smith Novels!
> >> They are the cheapest and most interesting reading matter published in
> >> America to-day. No jazz--no sex--just big, clean, interesting books.
> >>
> >
> > So take it as you will. YMMV.
> >
> > VS-)
> >
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