Booksellers and bookselling -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Argus Book Shop correspondence
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 427
Abstract:
The Argus Book Shop Correspondence consists of the shop's "author correspondence" files holding letters between Ben Abramson and his staff and more than four hundred writers, artists, printers, critics, and illustrators. While some of the folders hold single or just a few letters, Abramson had more extensive relationships with many writers and artists, including John Austen, Faith Baldwin, March Cost, Frederic Dannay, Norman Davey, Rhys Davies, August Derleth, Robin Douglas, Joan...
Dates:
1857-1955, bulk 1930-1944
Frederick W. Beinecke collector's files
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2760
Abstract:
The files consist of inventories and a card index for Frederick W. Beinecke's Western Americana collection. The collection documented in this material was donated to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, chiefly between 1960 and 1971. The inventories (Series I.) document Frederick W. Beinecke's larger donations, including a collection on the Mexican War in 1960, a collection of printed material in 1962, and material donated at the time of his death in 1971. The card index (Series...
Dates:
1950-1971
Edward Eberstadt & Sons records
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2698
Abstract:
The records document the business activity of Edward Eberstadt and include records from three of his firms: Hudson Book Company, Edward Eberstadt, and Edward Eberstadt & Sons. While some material dates to Eberstadt's early years in business, most of the collection documents Eberstadt's business relationship with William Robertson Coe (Eberstadt was Coe's agent), and the formation of the Coe Collection of Western Americana. Records include financial records, acquisition records,...
Dates:
1910-2018
G. & C. Merriam Company archive
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 370
Abstract:
The archive consists of correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, and photographs documenting the history of the G. & C. Merriam Company. The papers provide insight into the business practices of the nineteenth century publishing and bookselling trade, particularly in Massachusetts, and contain much material on lexicography, the development of American English, and the publishing history of Webster's Dictionary. Principal correspondents include Merriam Company editors...
Dates:
1797-1978, bulk 1830-1892
G. & C. Merriam Company records
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 789
Abstract:
The records consist correspondence, advertisements, invoices, bills of lading, circulars and other papers relating to the G. & C. Merriam Company's wholesale and retail book trade. Includes records relating to Claremont Manufacturing Company and H.H. Bancroft and Company.
Dates:
1830s-1935
John Mitzel papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1779
Abstract:
The collection contains material accumulated by John Mitzel in the course of his life and career as a writer, publisher, bookseller, and activist. Included are correspondence and research files on topics and individuals relevant to the LGBTQ community, gay rights, pornography, obscenity laws, and child sexual abuse trials; drafts and clippings of Mitzel's writings and records of the operations and legal disputes of the Glad Day Bookstore and Calamus Books; diaries and scrapbooks spanning...
Dates:
circa 1924-2013, (bulk 1970-2000)