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Pond, James B. THE BULLETIN OF THE J. B. POND LYCEUM BUREAU [subsequently titled:] THE LYCEUM BULLETIN OF THE J. B. POND LYCEUM BUREAU. [19 issues from October 1910 through February 1916].
[New York: The J.B. Pond Lyceum Bureau, 1910-1916].
- 19 issues of this periodical "occasionally" published by the agent/impressario James B. Pond, consisting of 14 issues bound together in quarto (9-3/4 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide) olive green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover, plus 5 issues bound in their original quarto 10-1/4 inch high by 7-5/8 inch wide illustrated wraps. 282 pages in all, with 9 of the original wrappers bound into the cloth volume. The periodicals are profusely illustrated throughout, often with photographs taken by some of the many lecturers which Pond sponsored over the years. There is a small stain to the front endpaper of the bound volume and a few pages are slightly darkened. One of the issues here present in its original wraps [January 1915] is folded horizontally. Very good. The bound volume includes the following issues: Vol. 1: October 1910 - 4 pages; December 1910 - 4 pages; February 1911 - 4 pages; March 1911 - 12 pages, including the original printed wraps. Vol. 2: October 1911 - 16 pages, including the original printed wraps; December 1911 "Travel Number" - 12 pages, including the original printed wraps; January 1912 - 12 pages, including the original printed wraps; March 1912 - 16 pages, including the original printed wraps, plus 2 full-page photographic illustrations of Native American Indians by Frederick Monsen, respectively titled "Navajo Chieftain" and "Hopi Matron at Well". Vol. 3: October 1912 - 20 pages, including the original pictorial wraps; December 1912 - 20 pages, including the original pictorial wraps plus 2 full-page reproductions of sketches by "Houghton" of Dickens' birthplace and Gads Hill Place; January 1913 - 16 pages, including the original pictorial wraps; April 1913 - 16 pages, including the original pictorial wraps. Vol. 4: October 1913 - 24 pages comprising the "Fortieth Anniversary Number"; May 1914 - 16 pages. The last 5 issues are loose and as issued in their original wraps. These consist of: Vol. 5: November 1914 - 16 pages; January 1915 [this issue is misidentified as being part of volume 6] - 16 pages; May 1915 - 16 pages, including a page of photographs of Mark Twain taken by Pond and a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Vol. 6: October 1915 - 20 pages; and Feburary 1916 - 20 pages (being a Special Shakespeare issue). This periodical, issued as publicity for the speakers and performers represented by James Pond, is full of anecdotes about these various major, and sometimes minor, personalities. Occasional extracts from their lectures and an occasional poem are quoted. Charles Battell Loomis is quoted in the December 1910 issue as stating: "Perhaps the most mortifying thing that ever happened to me on the lecture platform occurred when Jerome K. Jerome and I were swinging the circle as platform readers five years ago. We had done the east and the middle west and the Pacific coast with a little dip into Canada, here and there, and at last we ran through Texas and came up to Little Rock, Arkansas, where there had been a large advance sale and where we were to be introduced by a lawyer of national -- yes, of international reputation. ... Up rose the lawyer and in florid sentences, tinctured with real wit, handed out compliment after compliment to Jerome until the latter's ears began to glow like beacons. As for me, I thought to myself, 'Well, if he can say so much that is true and pleasant about an Englishman, what won't he say when he comes to his fellow contryman, myself!' But he never came to me...." Writing of Helen Keller in the April 1913 issue, Pond recounts an incident that happened whten she met Mr. Spaight who impersonated many of Dickens' characters for her, which she then identified by simply running her hand over his face. A lengthy article in the October 1913 issue recounts the history of Major Pond's Lyceum bureau. A wonderful item of historical, literary and artistic significance. Provenance: From the personal library of James B. Pond.
Price:
350.00 USD
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