Stylebooks for English language paper in Japan, 1926
Heading: (Japan)
Author: Shuck, Hugh J., compiler
Title: The Japan Advertiser Stylebook
Place Published: [Tokyo]
Publisher:Japan Advertiser Press
Date Published: 1926
Description:
54 leaves, printed on rectos only + folding font sample sheet. 22.8x15.3 cm (9x6"), printed wrappers. First Edition.
Besides the usual guidelines for punctuation, abbreviations, preparation of copy, etc., the stylebook includes information of particular interest to Japan and the far east, such as Japanese history, geography, religion, the imperial and noble families, diplomatic protocol, etc. No copies are listed in OCLC.
The compiler's obituary reads in part, "Hugh J. Schuck, who retired as cable editor of The New York Daily News, in charge of stories filed by cable, on Dec. 7, 1969, after 35 years with the paper, died today in the Houston Methodist Medical Center, apparently of a heart attack. He was 76 years old and made his home in King of Prussia, Pa. He had been a correspondent and an editor in the United States and the Far East before joining The News. He also had been a soldier in World War I and a war correspondent and had been an aide to Herbert Hoover on postwar relief."
Condition Report: Rear wrapper irregularly darkened, marginal darkening to front wrapper; very good.
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Heading: (Japan)
Author: Shuck, Hugh J., compiler
Title: The Japan Advertiser Stylebook
Place Published: [Tokyo]
Publisher:Japan Advertiser Press
Date Published: 1926
Description:
54 leaves, printed on rectos only + folding font sample sheet. 22.8x15.3 cm (9x6"), printed wrappers. First Edition.
Besides the usual guidelines for punctuation, abbreviations, preparation of copy, etc., the stylebook includes information of particular interest to Japan and the far east, such as Japanese history, geography, religion, the imperial and noble families, diplomatic protocol, etc. No copies are listed in OCLC.
The compiler's obituary reads in part, "Hugh J. Schuck, who retired as cable editor of The New York Daily News, in charge of stories filed by cable, on Dec. 7, 1969, after 35 years with the paper, died today in the Houston Methodist Medical Center, apparently of a heart attack. He was 76 years old and made his home in King of Prussia, Pa. He had been a correspondent and an editor in the United States and the Far East before joining The News. He also had been a soldier in World War I and a war correspondent and had been an aide to Herbert Hoover on postwar relief."
Condition Report: Rear wrapper irregularly darkened, marginal darkening to front wrapper; very good.
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