The cross word puzzle book: Second series

THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK
THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE BOOK
Second Series
A Second Anthology of Fifty New Cross Word Puzzles Selected as the Best of the Thousands Submitted to the New York World Published Here Exclusively for the First Time, and Edited
By PROSPER BURANELLI F. GREGORY HARTSWICK MARGARET PETHERBRIDGE Preface by WILLIAM A. STERN II CROSS WORD PUZZLE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC. THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY New York :: 1924
If you wish a copy of The Book of the Correct Answers for The Cross Word Puzzle Book—Second Series, sent with our compliments, use the enclosed postal.
Should you lose the postal, ten cents in stamps, sent to The Plaza Publishing Company, 37 West 57th Street, New York City, will bring a copy of the answers by return mail.
Copyright, 1924, by SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC. THE PLAZA PUBLISHING COMPANY 37 West 57th Street New York, N. Y.
One Cross Word Puzzle Book leads to another.
Now that the second volume, containing a new series of fifty more Cross Word Puzzles, is available, it seems fitting to take the reader behind the scenes and give him a short history of this cross word business.
The first Cross Word Puzzle Book was published on April 10th, 1924. In New York it sprang into immediate popularity, becoming there a best seller within a fortnight. A small but ardent group of cross word puzzle devotees gave the fad a running start. Among these pioneers may be mentioned F. P. A., Montague Glass, Neysa McMein, Emily Price Post, Baird Leonard, Ruth Hale, Gelett Burgess, Robert C. Benchley, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Kathleen and Charles G. Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Carolyn Wells.