Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-10
wANAMAKER's.
PHILADnLrHIA. Tussiay August 10, 1853.

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ton as to whether we had
the right to sell the "Per-
sonal Memoirs of U. S
Grant" This interest has
been increased by the mo-
tion lately made before
Judge Butler in the u. is,
Circuit Court by counsel for
Messrs. Charles l.. Webster
& Co. for a preliminary in
junction to restrain US from
selling the book Argu-
ment has been heard and
the Court reserved a deci.
sion until yesterday, when
the application was denied,
thus deciding the suit in our
favor.
Public interest has been
manifested in the question
out OF all proportion to its
business Importance to us.
This seems to demand a
statement of a few facts
which have not yet been in
possession of the public.
Regarding the book and
its writer public opinion is a
unit. Admiration for Gene
raj Grant and intense inter
est in his book are in all
hearts and minds. Equally
so is the desire that Mrs.
Grant should profit by it,
and the more the better.
Opinion is divided as TO
the methods OF publication
but from our point Of view
the public are against the
plans of the publishers. We
don't propose to argue that
point here. We are not
usually careful to answer
what may be said of US. II
1t were merely personal we
should not bother now with
any statements.
On the 18th of May last
we advertised the book for
sale. In the Times of May
18th the following appeared:
GRANTS MEMOIRS
Is announced as for sale by retail deal
er in this city. This book, under the
election and contract of General Grant
himself, is sold only by subscription, the
publisher and every agent selling it being
under stringent contract to sell 1t only
IN that way and at the fixed price,
Every book dealer had notice of this be
lore IS publication. Dealers can obtain
this book only by bribing and corruptine
the employees OF the publishers or by
buying stolen goods,
HTBBARn RpoTurp.
This was followed on the
oath of May by a long cir
cular address ed:
ITO OUR AGENTS AND THE PUB
Lie"
Our attention has heen called to an
advertisement OF one John Wannamaker.
who has p.ratel on nearly every legiti.
mate trade in the City Of Philadelphia,
and now Ire IS dapUiing in books. He
not only processes % understand how 10
run his own business, but he writes a
long honily on book publishing
and publishers methods a knowledge OF
which Is only ga ned BY long experience
and personal attention .
IRON the succeeding para,
graph we quote the follow
ing:
his Wannanlaker is not dealer Ia
any sense of the word He is pirate on
both the subscription and book trade: he
taxes custom from both: he does not sell
book for It's intrinsic value; ne handles
1t as he would 80 many hrieks-for the
money there is in it. He would
butcher popular book and sell it at a
loss. IL thereby he could crowd his store
with customers ard sell them other of
his numerous wares y
1--WE leave the public to judge whether
or not man who obtains small lot of
books by inducing an agent to commit a
fraud and who then widely advertises he
is selling book Gin which the author is
largely interested in the profts) at
reduced price is best subscribing the au-
thor1s interests
(Signed)
CHARLES l. WEBSTER Il CO.,
Publishers.
Our name is probably in
tentionally misspelled.
The charges alleged
against us in these adver-
tlsements can be very
quickly met and disposed
OF. We are bookseIling,
conducting that portion Of
our business for profit; keep
ing it entirely distinct from.
all other hl1sinocc anl