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Collection Title:
Creator:
Swallow, Alan, 1915-1966.
Inclusive Dates:
1934-1964
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, poet, publisher. Correspondence (1942-1964); manuscript poems and essays; and published materials, including articles and clippings by and about Swallow, book reviews, poems, and stories by Swallow, and photographs. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, Weldon Kees, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, and others.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Books.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Journals (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Publishers.
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Poets, American.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

Creator:
Claire, William F.
Inclusive Dates:
1942-1990
Abstract:
Two copies of Publishing in the West: Alan Swallow, edited by William Claire, along with a collection of material pertaining to the creation and production of the book, including correspondence, manuscripts, galleys, reviews, notes, clippings, etc.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Poems.
Subject:
Publishing in the West : Alan Swallow : some letters and commentaries / edited, with an introd. by William F. Claire.
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Poets, American.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

Creator:
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
Inclusive Dates:
1960-1993
Abstract:
Correspondence from the American poet and publisher.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
California -- San Francisco -- Intellectual life.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Booksellers and bookselling -- California -- San Francisco.
Poets, American.
Publishers and publishing -- California -- San Francisco.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Mennons, John, d. 1843.
Inclusive Dates:
1821-1830
Abstract:
Letters from printer and publisher John Mennons of Greenock, Scotland, to James Lawson of New York, regarding Mennon's publication of American literature in Scotland.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Publishers and publishing.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
American literature -- Publishing -- Scotland.
Authors and publishers -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
Literature publishing -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
Printers -- Scotland.
Publishers and publishing -- Scotland.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Spiral Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1961-1962
Abstract:
Galley proofs, drafts, and some correspondence of the American printing company. Customers include the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection, among others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Pamphlets.
Subject:
Publishers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Fine books -- Publishing.
Printers and printing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Approach magazine.
Inclusive Dates:
1913-1968
Abstract:
American literary journal. Collection contains editorial files, correspondence with authors and contributors, copies of other "little magazines," indexes to APPROACH, more. List of names given in subject headings below is not comprehensive.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Reviews (documents)
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.

Creator:
Arents, George, 1875-1960.
Inclusive Dates:
1891-1974
Abstract:
Collection of Christmas cards accumulated by George and Lena Arents, featuring notable figures from American arts and letters.
Type of Material:
Christmas cards.
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Art -- Illustrators
Authors, American.
Christmas cards -- Collectors and collecting.
Christmas cards -- Specimens.
Poets, American.

Creator:
Glass, Loren
Inclusive Dates:
2009-2010
Abstract:
Interviews of former members of Grove Press, conducted by Loren Glass as part of the research for his book Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Interviews.
Subject:
Authors.
Editors and publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
Book editors -- United States.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Grove Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1948-1998
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing house founded by Barney Rosset. Collection contains a small amount of personal correspondence from owner Barney Rossett, but the majority consists of files relating to the company's production of books, Evergreen Review magazine, films and record albums. For any given title, this may include contracts, correspondence, legal records, photographs, publicity material, reviews, royalty statements, and production records. Notable authors represented in the collection include Emmanuelle Arsan, Alan Ayckbourn, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Samuel Beckett, Eric Berne, Paul Bowles, James Broughton, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Frank, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Girodias, Witold Gombrowicz, Juan Goytisolo, Nat Hentoff, André Hodeir, Eugène Ionesco, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, George Reavey, John Rechy, Kenneth Rexroth, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael Rumaker, Hubert Selby, Gilbert Sorrentino, Amos Tutuola, Parker Tyler, Tomi Ungerer, Alan Watts, and others. There are extensive legal records and clippings files relating to the censorship trials surrounding the American publication of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Audiotapes.
Book reviews.
Books.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Film stills.
Financial statements.
Galley proofs.
Legal files.
Manuscripts for publication.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Negatives (photographs)
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Publishers' catalogs.
Royalty statements.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Evergreen review.
Authors.
Editors.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
Authors and publishers.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde cinema.
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Censorship -- United States -- Cases.
Censorship -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Creator:
Yellin, Herb.
Inclusive Dates:
1976-2000
Abstract:
Correspondence, memorabilia and printed material relating to Yellin's Lord John Press and to author Joyce Carol Oates, several of whose short works were printed by Yellin
Type of Material:
Broadsides (notices)
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Subject:
Publishers and publishing.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
Women Authors
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Private presses -- California.
Women authors -- 20th century.
Women poets, American.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1971
Abstract:
Copy of the radical periodical The Anvil marked up with Snow's notes to compositor; letter from Snow to Liberal Press with detailed layout notes; copy of American Book Collector with mention of Snow and his own margin notes
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Layouts (printed matter)
Subject:
Anvil (New York, N.Y. : 1933)
Editors.
Literature -- American Poetry
Radicalism
Publishing, printing and book arts
Layout (Printing)
Little magazines.
Nineteen thirties -- Periodicals.
Periodicals publishing.
Radicalism in literature -- Periodicals.
Socialism in literature -- Periodicals.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Chicory Blue Press (Goshen, Conn.)
Inclusive Dates:
1987-2011
Abstract:
Founded by Sondra Zeidenstein, Chicory Blue Press of Goshen, Connecticut publishes poetry and short stories by women authors over the age of 60. Collection contains editorial files, correspondence, audio and video material; a number of published items were removed for separate cataloging.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Correspondence.
Videocassettes.
Subject:
Publishers.
Women Authors
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
Publishing, printing and book arts
Older women.
Publishers and publishing.
Small presses -- Connecticut -- Goshen.
Short stories -- Women authors.
Women -- Poetry.
Women poets, American.
Women publishers -- United States.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
New York Review of Books.
Inclusive Dates:
1963-1969
Abstract:
Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, of the publisher, advertising manager, and business manager; production papers consisting of editorial, printing, distribution, and advertising records, including review assignment sheets; financial and legal papers, including authors' payment lists, bank statements, budgets, contracts, cost estimates, and remittance lists; and manuscripts, includings tables of contents for various issues, lists of contributors, articles, book reviews, letters, movie reviews, poems, and theater reviews, mainly revised printers' copies.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Budgets.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
The New York Review of Books.
Publishers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Popular culture
Publishing, printing and book arts
Books -- Reviews -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Folio Society (London, England)
Inclusive Dates:
1895-1968
Abstract:
Correspondence with authors, editors, and artists; original artwork; unbound galleys for FOLIO 21: A bibliography of The Folio Society 1947-1967
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Engravings (prints)
Lithographs.
Sketches.
Woodcuts (prints)
Subject:
FOLIO 21: A bibliography of The Folio Society 1947-1967.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- British
Literature -- French
Authors, English.
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
Classical literature -- Publishing.
Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Private presses -- England.
Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain.