oakum john (26 résultats)

Etat : New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Contents include: Stage Coaching, Block Island, etc. etc. -- Hardcover, pretty cover design. Condition: good (spine tips little worn; title-page is detached).

Etat : New.

Etat : New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

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Hardcover. Etat : G+. No Jacket. 1st. Supplemented by address entitled "From Franklin to Edison". Includes 'the Phillips System of Telegraphy' (Phillip's Morse Automatic Telegraph) and a dozen telegraph related essays. Gilt labeled blue cloth with some minor soiling. Front and rear hinges weakened. 248 p. + Telegraph instrument ads.

Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : None. pseud of Phillips, Walter P. Sketches of life in a telegraph office. Pages slightly soiled. Edge wear to green cloth covers. Record # 3604.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8." 176 pages, complete. White clipping from Ajax (J. A. Aulls) tipped in on front pastedown giving praise to Oakum's writings. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Impressed decorations on front and back covers. Pages are clean; binding is tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. xv, 248, [4] pages; illustrations; ads in the back; turquoise cloth binding with gilt lettering. Walter P. Phillips was born in Grafton, Mass in 1846 and was a telegraph operator who invented the Phillips Code. Later he was the head of the United Press. The most famous remnant of the Phillips Code is terms POTUS/SCOTUS. Very good clean copy.

Green dec. clotjh. Etat : Cloth sl. worn, generally vg. 176,(2) Pp. Frontis steel engr. of Author. 2 pages of book adverts in rear.

NY: George Munro's Sons, copyright, 1897. 200 pages. Halftone frontispiece portrait with guard, drawing of man with satchel, facsimile of Edison letter. 7.5x5", green cloth, gold titles. 'To Gertrude Morton Hubbard, From her affectionate uncle, the author, Walter P. Phillips, May 6, 1897' in ink on dedication page. 12 anecdotal reminiscences of colleagues contributed to 'The Telegrapher', first collected in 1876, 'I expected others would give the telegraphic fraternity a literature, but operators give attention to serious matters . . . developments electrical, or go into newspaper work . . . ' Author created Phillips Telegraphic Code, became head of United Press. Appended essay written for Ohio Associated Dailies, Columbus, discusses connections between telegraph & newspaper, author's conversations with Edison as telegrapher. Cover lightly soiled, rubbed, text bit toned, VG.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Later printing. Later printing. [6], [7]-188 pages. 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Publisher's mustard cloth with stamped decorations in black and gilt. Cancel author's name pasted on title page (the original author name was "John Oakum"). The frontispiece is an engraving with Facsimile signature of Walter P. Phillips below. This copy INSCRIBED by the author Phillips on second flyleaf "To William D. Tyler Esq. | With the cordial regards | of Walter P Phillips | New York April 8, 1890". Owner name "W. S. Tyler No 464" inked on recto of frontis. Cloth. A (presumably) later edition of this work, with the author properly identified. Another copy we've seen for sale has the author listed as "John Oakum" with title page date of 1876, and the frontis engraving identified as John Oakum. That edition has fewer pages (176) but has two pages of ads in rear and with a green binding. "Walter Polk Phillips (June 14, 1846 - January 31, 1920) was an American journalist, telegrapher, and inventor who created the Phillips Code, a brevity code which introduced the abbreviations POTUS, for president of the United States, and SCOTUS, for Supreme Court of the United States. He later became the head of the United Press.Phillips worked for the Associated Press from 1875 to 1879, serving as the New York Bureau's assistant general manager. Most sources say that it was during this period of time (c. 1879) that he created what came to be known as the Phillips Code. It had become clear to him, as a veteran telegrapher and journalist, that certain words were frequently used in news dispatches; he devised a special system of abbreviations that would make sending and receiving news stories much easier. The Phillips code quickly became popular with newspaper telegraphers, and it soon became the standard at newspapers of that era.Also during this time, in July 1876, Phillips released a work of humor and social commentary, under the pen name John Oakum. [AS HERE] Newspapers described it as "a collection of stories, character sketches and paragraphs" based on some of the telegraphers Phillips had known. " (Wikipedia) PROVENANCE: The library of telegraph historian Bill Holly.

First edition; 8vo; pp. [7], 8-176, [2] ads for The Operator, a bi-weekly journal for telegraphy; steel-engraved frontispiece of the author; original blindstamped green cloth stamped in gilt and black; near fine. Wright III, 4226.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 184 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.42 inches. This item is printed on demand.