[Rarebooks] fs: The National Sin of Literary Piracy (1888)

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Dyke, Henry Van.  THE NATIONAL SIN OF LITERARY PIRACY.

New York; Charles Scribner's Sons: 1888.

One of noted author Henry Van Dyke's earlier literary efforts, and his 
first work for Scribner's. In it he attacks American publishers who reprint 
the works of foreign authors without regard to copyright and without paying 
royalties, which he sees as distinctly un-Christian.

Popular author, clergyman, and educator, Van Dyke [1852-1933] also served 
as President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, American 
ambassador to the Netherlands, and moderator of the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church.

His writings included the very popular "Fisherman's Luck", published a few 
years after this pamphlet and about which we found the totally unrelated 
(and quite probably apocryphal) but nonetheless amusing anecdote- an early 
printing of "Fisherman's Luck" contained, it is said, a very startling 
single-letter misprint in the title which, had the copies been distributed, 
would have instantly put Scribner's out of business and the author out of 
his church, if not into an early grave.

Personally, I don't see why "Fisherman's Duck" would have had that effect, 
but I suppose those were different times...

Softcover. 5"x7.5", 23 pages, + 8 pages of advertisements. Covers with 
moderate wear and some soil, spine perished, and rear cover detached but 
present; a fragile item.  [08093]  $50.00


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