Product code: MacMillan's Novelist's Library Vol 1 No. 1 Marcella by Mrs. Humphry hot Ward 1895
This is the oldest paperback book I've ever seen. Published in April of 1895, this paperback book recently had its 128th birthday. Grover Cleveland was president. Average wage for a carpenter in New York was $3.50 per day. The price of this issue of MacMillan's Novelist's Library was fifty cents. The annual subscription was $5.50. So before the internet, before television, before radio, before movies; people with money would have stories sent to them through the mail. If you were a carpenter in New York, your annual subscription to MacMillan's Novelist's Library would have been nearly a day and a half's pay. Jack London and Mark Twain were the entertainment superstars of that era. This rare relic from the nineteenth century provides a hot window into the daily life and the culture of the Victorian era. All the pages & covers are present and attached. Front & back cover is beginning to detach a little. There are stains on the first few pages & on fore-edge. See photos.
This is the oldest paperback book I've ever seen. Published in April of 1895, this paperback book recently had its 128th birthday. Grover Cleveland was president. Average wage for a carpenter in New York was $3.50 per day. The price of this issue of MacMillan's Novelist's Library was fifty cents. The annual subscription was $5.50. So before the internet, before television, before radio, before movies; people with money would have stories sent to them through the mail. If you were a carpenter in New York, your annual subscription to MacMillan's Novelist's Library would have been nearly a day and a half's pay. Jack London and Mark Twain were the entertainment superstars of that era. This rare relic from the nineteenth century provides a hot window into the daily life and the culture of the Victorian era. All the pages & covers are present and attached. Front & back cover is beginning to detach a little. There are stains on the first few pages & on fore-edge. See photos.