V. Biographic Pamphlets
The Book Supply Company
printed a biographical brochure or pamphlet to accompany The Shepherd of
the Hills, and later one to go with When A Man’s a Man.
The latter was also printed as an appendix in the back of The
Recreation of Brian Kent.
Appleton
printed inside the dust jacket of at least their first four books an
offer for a brochure about Wright.
Early Appleton brochures could be obtained for only your name and
address, later ones required a 10-cent stamp.
The brochures are (click on titles to read full contents):
40.
With Compliments of the Publishers to Readers of The Shepherd of
The Hills, by RPS, 1907. (Click on title to see photo)
41.
Harold Bell Wright as I know Him, by E. W.
Reynolds, 1911
42.
Harold Bell Wright, A Biography Intimate and Authoritative, by E.
W. Reynolds, 1916. [Reprinted in back of The Recreation of Brian
Kent]
43.
Harold Bell Wright, A Biography Intimate and Authoritative, by E.
W. Reynolds, reprint of above with additional photos. [Reprinted in
back of The Recreation of Brian Kent]
44.
Harold Bell Wright (His Life and His
Writings), Signed portrait of HBW on front.
"Helen of The Old House, by Harold Bell Wright" on back cover.
1921. No author named. The subtitle, His Life and His Times," is not
printed anywhere on the booklet, but is mentioned in the offer for this
booklet in Helen of the Old House.
45.
Harold Bell Wright, the Man Behind the Novels, by Hildegard
Hawthorne, 1923.
46.
Harold Bell Wright, Author and Man. [I do not have a copy of this
pamphlet yet, but I do have a copy of McCall's magazine, March 1925. The
index lists a "Special Article" beginning on page 20: "Harold Bell
Wright, Author and Man" by Blanche Colton Williams and J. Leo Meehan.
When you turn to page 20 you find the beginnings of two separate stories by the two
different authors: "The Inspired Novelist," by
Williams, and "The Sterling American," by J. Leo Meehan. The first is
presented as a story about the Author, the second as a story about the
Man. Evidently, this brochure also combined these two stories. I have
never seen any reason to believe that "The Sterling American" was
published as a separate booklet, but it may have been.
47.
Harold Bell Wright, the Inspired Novelist, by Blanche Colton
Williams, Ph.D [Published separately in 1925 to accompany and promote, A Son
of His Father]
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