The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889
May 30, 1889. Superseding all previous dates.
WATCH-WORDS of the REVOLUTION:
Give the best book for the least money possible. 1,000,000 books, profit 1 cent each—$10,000, but 1,000 books, profit $1.00 each—$1,000 only. Publish books, only, that DESERVE to sell—merit wins in the end. To make $1.00 and a friend is better than $5.00 profit. “Push things” and “Fight it out on this line.”—U. S. Grant.
TERMS, FREIGHT, POSTAGE, ETC.
Prices Include cost of prepaying transportation by mail or express, unless “at store” is specified. Formerly, prices were at store, always, cost of transportation being added. The change is one of convenience rather than of increase or of decrease, but on many books there is a substantial reduction in price.
Stockholders or Bondholders of the Alden Publishing Co. are allowed a reduction from Catalogue prices of the amount indicated by the figures in parenthesis; for instance: Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia, per volume, cloth 60c. (20c.) means 40 cents net to Stockholders. To avoid possible misunderstanding, orders at Stockholders’ prices must invariably be accompanied by remittance, and by Coupon or a Certificate which is supplied to Stockholders for that purpose. Terms for Stock will be found elsewhere under the head of “Co-operative Publishing;” terms for Bonds will be seen by copy of the Bond itself elsewhere printed.
John B. Alden, Publisher, THE ALDEN PUBLISHING CO., Proprietors. NEW YORK, 393 Pearl Street. P. O. Box 1227.
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The Alden Publishing Co. was organized June 1888 with a view, on the part of its promoters, to consolidating and strengthening various interests which had previously been allied, but independent, and of introducing to the fullest practicable extent the principle of co-operation for the benefit of buyers of books. The amount of capital paid up Feb. 4, 1889, was $61,167.00. A dividend of five per cent. was paid Dec. 20, 1888. The business is recently growing very rapidly, and the prospects are extremely encouraging.
John B. Alden
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Co-operative Publishing.
Alphabetical Catalogue.
Alden’s Illustrated Juveniles.
Alden’s Home and Handy Atlas.
Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia.
Alden’s Literary Cyclopedia.
Alden’s “New” Ideal Revolver.
American Humorists—American Patriotism.
Greek and Roman Classics, in English.
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor.
Argyll, Arnold, Bacon, Locke.
Beecher, Beckford, Birrell.
Boswell, Bronte, Bryant, Buffon.
Bunyan, Burke, Burns.
Carlyle’s Choice Works—Cheap.
Carlyle—A Fine Edition.
The Faith Cure.
The Great Classics, for Young Folks.
Classic Poems, Ideal Edition, Cheap.
The Kalevala—A Great Literary Discovery.
The Lamplighter.
Daudet’s Great Satirical Novel.
Dawson’s Story of Earth and Man.
The “Boz” Dickens—$3.00!
The Famous Dore Galleries.
Drummond’s Natural Law.
George Eliot’s Works.
Emerson and Epictetus.
Farrar, Florian, Fouque.
Franklin Literary Nuggets.
Froissart, Frost, and Froude.
Dr. Geikie’s Popular Books.
Gibbon and Goethe.
A Russian Historical Novel.
Green’s England—Guizot’s France.
Hallam and Hamerton.
The Unity of the Truth.
Hawthorne’s Popular Works.
Tom Brown at Rugby—10 Cents.
Hume’s Great History—Fine Edition.
A New History of French Literature.
Six Famous Statesmen.
Jerrold, Johnson, and Jonson.
Greece and Rome—Popular Histories.
Great Kingdoms of the World.
Kingsley’s Hypatia—The Koran.
Lamartine and Lamb.
A Popular Medical Cyclopedia.
A Library of Universal History.
A Treasury of the Best Literature.
Light Literature: Choice and Cheap.
Literary Portraits and Biographies.
Livingstone, Stanley, Africa.
Longfellow, Lossing, Lowell, Lubbock.
Macaulay’s England and Essays.
Geo. MacDonald’s Novel.
Meredith’s Lucile—Joan of Arc.
Famously Funny.
Mitchel’s Planetary and Stellar Worlds.
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More.
Nuttall’s Great Dictionary, Cheap.
Brilliant Essays—Beauty and Evolution.
The Talmud—Interwoven Gospels.
A Great War Story.
Wonders and Curiosities of the World.
Proctor’s Popular Science.
Rawlinson’s Historical Works.
Rollin and Ruskin.
St. Augustine—St. Pierre—Schiller.
Scott’s Waverley Novels.
The Ideal Shakespeare—Six Vols., big type, $3!
The School for Scandal.
Standard Poets. Fine and Cheap Editions.
Bayard Taylor’s Famous Book.
Taylor’s Popular Health Books.
Thackeray’s Novels.
From Log Cabin to White House.
Standard Poets—Fine Binding—Cheap.
Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia.
Alden’s Cyclopedia of Literature.
A Good $10.00 Atlas—$2.25!
History of French Literature.
THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION.
THE STORY OF BERYL.
OUT OF A BESIEGED CITY.
Alden’s “New” Ideal Book Case.
A Grand Old Roman.
The Earth for 25 Cents!
Great Oriental Poems.
Bacon and Locke.
A Poem that Ranks with the Iliad.
Curious Myths and Legends,
Carlyle’s Popular Works.
Miracles Daily Wrought!
A Literary Gold Mine.
Delightful Stories for Young Folks.
Epictetus, Stoic Philosopher.
Drummond’s Natural Law.
A Romance of Geology.
Peerless Old Boswell!
Evolution from a Christian Standpoint.
Library of Universal History.
A Russian Historical Novel.
The Koran in English.
Bayard Taylor’s Most Famous Book.
400 Famous Americans.
Wonders of the Heavens.
“The Reader’s Pulse Tingles.”
Nature, Picturesque—Nature, Human.
Famous Statesmen of the World.
A Great Popular Dictionary.
Wonders of the World.
The Popular Wallace Books.
An Orient Medley.
A Mysterious Land.
A Charming Historical Romance.
Popular Religious Literature.
THE BIBLE ILLUMINATED.
THE BEST LIFE OF CHRIST.
A BOOK FOR YOUNG MEN.
The Confessions of St. Augustine.
Macaulay. Prescott. Rawlinson.
Spain in its Golden Age.
Rawlinson’s Great Historical Works.
Kingdoms of the World.
Picturesque America!
Great Novels, Amazingly Cheap!
The Gospel Story.
Popular Historical Works.
Guizot’s France and Civilization.
Livingstone, Stanley, and Africa.
Elysian Dreams AND Sober Realities.
Bayard Taylor’s Famous Book.
Views Afoot.
Europe SEEN WITH Knapsack and Staff.
A Book for Bible Readers.
The Koran.
The Talmud.
A Grand Book FOR THE SONS OF The Grand Army.
The Great Locomotive Chase.
20 Popular Stories $1.00!
Oliver Goldsmith.
Green’s Brilliant History.
A Great French Novel.
A Great Russian Novel.
Great Statesmen.
CIVILIZATION.
The Unity of the Truth.
The Spirit of Beauty.
The Talmud: What It Is
A Remarkable Story.
Lang Syne, or the Wards of Mt. Vernon.
Patriotic Hymns.
Jerry: A Story for Young Folks.
Dorance: A Novel.
LITERARY REVOLUTION SAVINGS-BOND.
COUPON LITERARY REVOLUTION SAVINGS-BOND.
Wanted—Agents.
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