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Publishers Weekly records, 1909-2007
35.28 linear feetVanguard Press records, circa 1925-1985
134 linear feetThe collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Vanguard Press: correspondence, manuscripts, contracts, memoranda, galley proofs, photographs, clippings, and printed materials. The correspondence and editorial files contain a wealth of detailed information about individual authors and the growth and development of the Press. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét; Phyllis Bottome; Pierre Boulle; Jocelyn Brooke; Cyril Connolly; A.J. Cronin; Nigel Dennis; John Dewey; Max Eastman; James T. Farrell; Vardis Fisher; Richard Garnett; Theodor Seuss Geisel; Louis Golding; Paul Goodman; Horace Gregory; Geoffrey Grigson; Lillian Hellman; William Heyen; Harold L. Ickes; Christopher Isherwood; Alfred Kazin; Philip Lamantia; Sinclair Lewis; Emanuel Litvinoff; Dwight Macdonald; Archibald MacLeish; Marshall McLuhan; Thomas Mann; Edgar Lee Masters; H. L. Mencken; William Meredith; Joyce Carol Oates; Katherine Anne Porter; Barbara Pym; William Sansom; William Saroyan; Ramon J. Sender; Upton Sinclair; Rex Stout; Edith Sitwell; Paul Theroux; Lionel Trilling; Harry S. Trumam; Louis Untermeyer; Eudora Welty; Richard Wilbur; and Thornton Wilder. There are some manuscripts by Bellow; Bottome; Boulle; Farrell; Grigson; Litvinoff; MacDonald; Oates; John Cowper Powys; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Patrick Tanner; William Targ; Theroux; and Sitwell.
Harper & Row Publishers records, 1935-1973
153 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, contracts, memos., and photographs. The correspondence pertains to the publications of numerous important fiction and non-fiction authors. The files are particularly strong for authors included in two important historical series"The New American Nation" Richard B. Morris and Henry S. Commager, editors; and "The Rise of Modern Europe" William L. Langer, editor. The files of Cass Canfield Sr. contain substantial material on Planned Parenthood and International Planned Parenthood.
Publishers' weekly Box 224
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Orville Wilbur Prescott papers, 1931-1982
7 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, awards, photographs, and clippings. The collection includes letters from authors, publishers, journalists, and the reading public about Prescott's book reviews from 1931 to 1968. Printed copies of his book review column in The New York Times from 1942 until 1968 and printed copies of his articles and book reviews in "Cue", "The Yale Review", "The Saturday Review", and other magazines and newspapers are mounted in 22 scrapbooks. There is the setting typescript of his book Lords of Italy; portraits from the Middle Ages (Harper & Row, 1972), as well as clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to his other books. There is also a volume of letters from authors and friends on his retirement from The New York Times in 1966, as well as photographs and awards. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Louis Auchincloss, John Hersey, Phyllis McGinley, Mary Renault, A.L. Rowse, and C.P. Snow.
Publishers Weekly, 1949 Box 5
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- Publishers Weekly, 1949
Random House records, 1925-1999
702 linear feetThe collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.
Publishers' Weekly, 1949 Box 255
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New Press records, 1992-2014, bulk 1993-2011
99 linear feetPublishers Weekly, 2001 Box 20, Folder 19
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- Publishers Weekly, 2001
Women's National Book Association records, 1917-2020
72 linear feetPublishers Weekly, 2005 Box 122
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- Publishers Weekly, 2005
Andrew Alpern Collection of Edward Gorey Materials, 1954-2019
21.5 linear feetPublishers Weekly, 1975 May 19 Box 14, Folder 2, Item 365
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- Publishers Weekly, 1975 May 19
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Includes color cover drawing
Scrapbook 2, 1954, 1975-1982 Box 18, Folder 1, Item 417
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- , Publishers Weekly, November 26, 1982 10. Photocopy of TLS, 26 November 1966 11. "A House for Count Dracula
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1. "Les Mystères de Constantinople," The New York Review of Books, February 20, 1975 et seq 2. "Edward Gorey's Tantalizing Turns of the Screw" by Selma Lanes, New Boston Review, Vol 1, No. III 3. "Edward Gorey Inhabits an Odd World of Tiny Drawings, Fussy Cats and `Doomed Enterprises'," People Weekly, July 3, 1978 4. Sales of Furs to Men Gaining as Season Starts by Barbara Ettorre [with Gorey illustrations], New York Times 5. New York Times article on men in furs with Gorey photograph 6. "He fancies furs for men" by Eugenia Sheppard, [Gorey photo and drawing] New York Post, Oct 26, 1978 7. Small article on Gorey's fur coats, New York Magazine April 30, 1979 8. "That oft-passing, silent stranger emerges as the admirable Gorey," by Diane Judge, NYPost, Oct 22, 1978 9. "Edward Gorey" by Sally A. Lodge, Publishers Weekly, November 26, 1982 10. Photocopy of TLS, 26 November 1966 11. "A House for Count Dracula Designed in Goreyland," by Phyllis Funke, Los Angeles Times, Sept 24, 1978 12." The Great Bore Competition," by Patricia Arbuthnot, House and Garden, June 1984 13. Title page drawing, The New York Review of Books Christmas Issue, December 16, 1982 14. Title page and other drawings, New York Times Book Review Christmas, November 25, 1979 15. Ad for "What Nigel Knew" 16. Two original photos of TV screen showing Gorey on Dick Cavett show 17. "If everybody lived forever . . .," by Mike Lipton [Gorey drawing], TV Guide, July 12, 1980 18. "The Darkwater Hall Mystery" by Kingsley Amis [Gorey drawing] Playboy, May 1978 19. "`Gorey Stories,' Exquisite Playlets," by Mel Gussow, New York Times, December 1977 20. "New Tales of Gore(y)" by Frances Herridge, New York Post, October 19, 1978 21. "What's in Store" photo of Gorey and set from Gorey Stories at Lord and Taylor 22. "And the subject is: Style" by Linda Stevens 23. "People: Edward Gorey and his flying Chinese dogs," Women's Wear Daily, September 3, 1978 24. Three small clippings relating to Gorey Stories 25. "`Gorey Stories' could drive an author and a director batty," by John Corry, New York Times June 23, 1977, w/ ad 26. Caricature of Gorey Stories cast, City News, October 29, 1978 27. "Gorey Story a Dull Evening" by John Correy, City News, October 31, 1978 28. "Staged `Gorey' looks pale," by Clive Barnes, New York Post, October 31, 1978 29. `Gorey Stories' [notes that the show closed Monday night] Women's Wear Daily, November 1, 1978 30. A Gorey Halloween ad for program on Channel 7 31. "And the subject is: Style" by Linda Stevens, New York Post, October 22, 1978 32. Book mark for NY State Small Press Assoc. with Gorey drawing 33. "Edward Gorey: A Taste for the Terrible," by Dale Harris, The Soho Weekly News, October 26, 1978 34. Postcard advertising Gorey Stories 35. Postcard advertising exhibition of drawings and sketches for Gorey Stories at Gotham Book Mart 36. Double-sided page of Gorey Stories reviews, issued by Gotham Book Mart 37. Four Christmas greeting cards with Gorey drawings, published by Book-of-the-Month Club, 1954 38. Two Christmas greeting cards (w/ envelopes) 39. "Artists' Greetings," The New York Times Magazine, December 24, 1978 40. Four promotional flyers for events produced by the Mohonk Mountain House and Murder Ink in 1977, 1978, 1981 and [undated] 41. The Happy Ending: The Best of National Lampoon #4 42. I want to say knockwurst [Gorey drawing], TV Guide, November 20, 1982 43. Announcement of film benefit at Gotham Book Mart 44. "And `G' Is for Gorey Who Here Tells His Story," by Jan Hodenfield, New York Post, January 10, 1973 45. Exhibition announcement card and print price list issued by Gotham Book Mart 46. "A Very Tragic Story Including Five Big Dance Numbers" [Gorey drawing], TV Guide, December 11, 1976 47. "Mr. Nice Guy . . . By a Wire" [Gorey drawing], TV Guide, February 19, 1977
Leo Lerman papers, 1893-2012, bulk 1937-1994
105.54 linear feetThe Publishers Weekly
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- The Publishers Weekly
Institute of Pacific Relations records, 1927-1962
232 linear feetThe office files of the American Institute of Pacific Relations and the international Institute of Pacific Relations, containing correspondence and reports concerned with international conferences, research programs, and publications programs of both Institutes, and relating to the political, economic, and social problems in eastern and southern Asia and the South Pacific, as well as with problems of American foreign policy. There are many travel letters and on-the-spot reports relating to conditions in China, Japan, Russia, Australia, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan during the period 1933 to 1954.
Excerpts from Publishers Weekly, 1951 May 5 Box 376
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- Excerpts from Publishers Weekly, 1951 May 5
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