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Vintage 1949 Information Please Almanac John Kieran HC DJ Farrar Straus BOMC
Title: The New Information Please Almanac 1949
Author/Editor: John Kieran, editor, with contributions by George Bernard Shaw, Red Smith, Harold E. Stassen, John Chamberlain, Charles P. Taft, Bert Andrews, Kyle Crichton, Rev. Benjamin Masse, S.J., Encyclopaedia Britannica, New York Herald Tribune and others.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company, New York City
Year: 1949
Binding: Hardcover with original dust jacket; Book-of-the-Month Club edition (\"Book Dividend of Book-of-the-Month Club\" stated on front flap).
Language: English
Subject/Topic: Almanac and general reference work covering modern fact-finding information, completely indexed.
Content highlights: Instant information on world history, U.S. history, sports, government, aviation, movies, science, music, economics, religion, geography, United Nations, astronomy, education, business, elections, radio and literature.
Special section: \"How Man Lives Under Capitalist, Socialist, Communist Governments,\" edited by Dan Golenpaul, with essays by various economists, political leaders and commentators, plus world statistics.
Additional sections: Review of the year 1948 (news, Washington, sports, theater, fiction, screen, music), detailed news record of 1948, American economy, the United States, the United Nations, other nations of the world, maps, aviation, calendar and astronomy, chronology, who\'s who, associations and societies, awards, science, religion, records of sports and more.
Sample interior features: Articles such as \"How Economic Freedom Works\" by William J. Casey; historical essays including \"History of the Flag\" and \"Flag Etiquette\"; extensive tables on languages of the world and universities ancient and modern; calendar pages for each month of 1949; statistical summaries for sports including wrestling, rowing, soccer and softball.
Publication details: Copyright 1949 by Dan Golenpaul Associates; printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. Correspondence address given as Information Please Almanac, 444 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y.
Keywords: vintage almanac, mid-century reference book, Cold War era politics, Book-of-the-Month Club, Farrar Straus hardcover, United States history, world statistics, encyclopedic data.
Condition: Dust jacket present with heavy edge wear, tears, creases, and small losses at spine ends and corners. Blue cloth boards show rubbing, fading, and fraying with exposed board at the spine foot. Pages are uniformly tanned with some foxing; text and binding remain complete and usable.
