Search

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: "Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York." Remove constraint "Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York."

Search Results

Seven Gables Bookshop records, 1930-1979

80600 items
Abstract Or Scope

Correspondence and catalogs of Seven Gables Bookshop, and some early letters from Collector's Bookshop and Papantonio's Bookshop. There are many letters in the collection from major universities and colleges and from famous collectors such as C. Waller Barrett, Thomas W. Streeter, Jacob Blanck, and Josiah K. Lilley. Also, miscellaneous correspondence and notes of John Kohn.

No additional results

Schulte's Book Store records, 1918-1959

.25 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope

The collection contains letters and postcards from a variety of the book store's patrons regarding the sale and acquistion of books. Additionally, there are letters from a variety of correspondents to the literary editors of the New York Herald Tribune submitting work for review in that newspaper.

No additional results

William Evarts Benjamin papers, 1817-1940

14 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, drawings, engravings, and printed materials of Benjamin. The personal and business papers concern Benjamin's publishing and bookselling company, his numerous benefactions, the disposal of his collections, and many printed catalogs for his company, 1883-1940. The two major correspondents are the business and financial records for the printing, binding, and extensive promotion through a network of agents of Stedman's A LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; new ed. (New York, W.E. Benjamin, 1894). There are also letters, manuscripts, documents, and drawings of English literary figures collected by Benjamin. Among these are six letters of George Eliot, 47 letters and six manuscripts of John Ruskin, and three letters and one manuscript of Joseph Mallord Turner, with four letters relating to the artist. In addition there ten drawings and watercolors by Ruskin.

No additional results