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Publishers and publishing -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Big Table records

 Collection
Identifier: 7720
Abstract

Correspondence, primarily that of Albert N. Podell, business manager, pertaining to the finances, publishing, and advertising of the literary quarterly BIG TABLE, and to the publication of Beat and other modernist writing; also papers pertaining to an obscenity suit brought against the periodical. Major correspondents include Irving Rosenthal, Griselda Ohannessian, Roy Miller, Paul Carroll, and Laurence Ferlinghetti

Dates: 1958-1960.

Evert Duyckinck imprint collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8007
Scope and content

122 volumes published by Evert Duyckinck (1764-1833) in New York and some of his associates. Included are copies of the first book printed by the Harper Brothers in 1817.

Dates: 1790-1839.

James Albert Winans letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304382]
Identifier: 14-24-m.510
Scope and content Letters from Professor James A. Winans to Nelson Heath Meriweather of the Artcraft Press, Columbia, Missouri, concerning the printing of Winans' book, Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder, provides an interesting picture of the difficulty of publicizing and marketing privately printed books; includes comments on the Harvard University Press, September 16, 1955, the book review policy of the New York Herald Tribune, and on Anthony Boucher and his review of the book in the New York Times,...
Dates: 1955-1956.

Larry Mitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7820
Abstract

Mitchell's publications, drafts of his and other people's writings (including a draft of a Harvey Fierstein piece), interviews, reviews and awards for his writing and the work of Calamus Books, and personal and family papers, including journals and diaries.

Dates: 1954-2005.

Typographic Years collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4623
Scope and content Typed manuscript, first and second runs of galley proofs, page proofs, and revisions of galley proofs of Blumenthal's book Typographic Years: A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century, 1925-1975 (New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1982; limited ed. New York: Grolier Club [printed by Stinehour Press, Lunenberg, Vt.], 1982), with holograph corrections by Blumenthal. Also included is correspondence between Blumenthal and Donald D. Eddy relating to the book, including a letter from Blumenthal dated...
Dates: [ca. 1980]-1986.

Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 4627
Abstract

Correspondence of Vladimir Nabokov, his literary agents, and his publishers regarding publication of his works, as well as related correspondence of Véra Nabokov.

Dates: 1945-1977.