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Untide Press. Collection, 1943-1955.

Title: Collection, 1943-1955.

Collection includes ten monographs published by Untide Press; three issues of The Illiterati (printed by the Untide Press), publication notices, and two letters between William Everson and Will Ransom.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38064822 View

Siberell, Lloyd Emerson, 1905-1968. Papers, 1933-1968.

Title: Papers, 1933-1968.

Chiefly correspondence and other materials related to book collecting, publishing, editing and civic activities. Includes manuscripts by other writers primarily for the Book Collector's Packet. Also includes files. Includes copy and proofs of journal articles, club programs, miscellaneous clippings and some photographs of writers and artists.

ArchivalResource: 13.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20768672 View

Colt Press. Colt Press records, 1920-1973.

Title: Colt Press records, 1920-1973.

Business records and correspondence of the Colt Press of San Francisco, California. Includes duplicate invoices; checks and bank statements; ledgers; income and sales tax returns; legal contracts and agreements. Correspondence between Jane Grabhorn and writers John Steinbeck, Valenti Angelo, William Saroyan, Robinson Jeffers, and others.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565909 View

Cheever, Lawrence Oakley, 1907-1974. Papers of Lawrence Oakley Cheever, 1931-1972.

Title: Papers of Lawrence Oakley Cheever, 1931-1972.

The papers of Lawrence Oakley Cheever relate primarily to his collecting interests. The first series contains his correspondence files as well as material he collected about the Prairie Press and illustrator Rockwell Kent. Cheever published a number of articles in a journal titled, The Book Collector's Packet. The second section of his papers consists of research, drafts, and copies of some of those articles. L.O. Cheever's collection of bookplates (arranged by artist) make up the third grouping, while the final sequence contains the booklets that he had published each Christmas for his friends. Included are drafts, correspondence, and all manner of material relating to their writing, design, and printing. Many of these were the products of the Prairie Press. Correspondence is found in three of the four series. There are letters from: Carroll Coleman, Rockwell Kent, Raymond Lufkin, Dale Nichols, George Perrottet, Will Ransom, Will Simmons, Vincent Starrett, and Edward A. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71355691 View

Macy, George. Limited Editions Club papers, 1929-1940.

Title: Limited Editions Club papers, 1929-1940.

Primarily correspondence between Macy and book designers, illustrators, and printers. Some correspondence with editors and authors of introductory essays. Also includes several sketches by illustrators.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37114761 View

Macy, George. George Macy papers, 1916-1970.

Title: George Macy papers, 1916-1970.

Letters, documents, and printed materials documenting Macy's publishing career, including that relating to the Nonesuch Press, dating from 1941 to 1960. Included also are photographs, awards, and financial papers. The correspondents include many of Macy's close friends including Peter Beilenson, William Rose Benét, Clifton Fadiman, Christopher Fry, Lillian Gish, Alec Guinness, Fritz Kredel, Frederic and Florence March, Francis Meynell, Bruce Rogers, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, and Lynd Ward. Also, miscellaneous engravings, lithographs, and drawings.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. ( 4 volumes, 12 boxes, 1 oversize package & 1 map case drawer)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606938314 View

Ifan Kyrle Fletcher letters

Title: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher letters

Letters to Fletcher, including four letters from Richard Hughes, and twenty-five from Dorothy Leigh Sayers, mostly about the Dante editions which she bought from the Fletchers; seven letters from Samuel Beckett; and letters from the Sitwell brothers primarily concerning items purchased from the Fletchers: Osbert, 142 letters and postcards concerning books purchased, and Sacheverell, 168 letters concerning music covers, engraved writing paper, costume and ballet drawings, etc. purchased as well as books. Also, twenty-one letters and post cards from Eric Gill, who designed and printed a wedding announcement for Mr. Fletcher; and eighteen letters from Will Ransom, dealing with American and English publishers and bookdealers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4078766 View

Heller, Elinor Raas. Materials pertaining to the Grabhorn Press bibliography, 1927-1975.

Title: Materials pertaining to the Grabhorn Press bibliography, 1927-1975.

Contains introduction, working notes, and checklists for vol. 1 of the bibliography. Includes letters to Heller from David Magee, and to Heller and Magee from numerous individuals, including Flora Arnstein, Albert M. Bender, Wilder Bentley, Oscar Lewis, Alfred Sutro, and Joyce Wilson, with some 1975 correspondence concerning reprinting vols. 1 & 2. Also includes Elinor Heller's annotated copy of Will Ransom's "Private Presses and Their Books," and a small number of miscellaneous drawings and other materials.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 1 oversize box (.6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84653584 View

Ransom, Will, 1878-1955. [Letter] 1941 July 25, Norman, Okla. [to] Hester O'Neill Wilson, New York / Will Ransom.

Title: [Letter] 1941 July 25, Norman, Okla. [to] Hester O'Neill Wilson, New York / Will Ransom.

Information regarding the possible publication of her book, Lulu.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7160564 View

Ransom, Will, 1878-1955. Will Ransom papers, 1883-1954.

Title: Will Ransom papers, 1883-1954.

Correspondence and notebooks containing printing prospectuses and other ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear feet (94 boxes and 150 loose-leaf notebooks)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656281623 View

Rushmore, Arthur W., 1883-1955. Rushmore collection, 1900-1992 (bulk 1927-1955).

Title: Rushmore collection, 1900-1992 (bulk 1927-1955).

Correspondence, diaries, drawings, posters, broadsides, mss., galley proofs, book jackets and proofs, book plates and proofs, original drawings and artwork, German paste paper designs (samples), framed letters and photos of American and British literary figures, materials reflecting the printing activities of Golden Hind Press such as letterheads, birth announcements, Christmas card proofs, type inventory, and programs of memorial services for Harper & Brothers executives. Also includes 150 letters written in response to Rushmore's The Mainz Diary (1940), a fictional account commemorating the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention; photographs of the Rushmore family and friends in the printing industry; Christmas cards printed by Rushmore for his friends; printed ephemera of the American Institute for Graphic Arts; German paste paper designed by Rushmore and his daughter Delight Rushmore Lewis used as binding covers for Harper and Golden Hind books; Harper & Brothers book jacket designs and proofs; Harper's Magazine cover designs and advertisements; 1700 books (1600 from Rushmore's private library) relating to bibliography, printing history, and the book arts; Golden Hind and Harper imprints; and ephemera (550 items).

ArchivalResource: 123 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70951803 View

Hill, Edwin Bliss, 1866-1949. Papers of Edwin Bliss Hill, 1737-1954 (bulk 1895-1948).

Title: Papers of Edwin Bliss Hill, 1737-1954 (bulk 1895-1948).

The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts of Edwin Bliss Hill. Manuscript material in the collection includes: 63 poems by Bertha Grant Avery and manuscripts by Joseph E. Babson, Edwin Bliss Hill, Frank Holme (including 22 volumes of diaries), and Vincent Starrett. Items of note include a typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and a letter from Edward Waldo Emerson about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Correspondents in the collection include George Ade, Francis Henry Allen, Bertha Grant Avery, Joseph E. Babson, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, Eva Dean, Edward J. Finch, Earle Robert Forrest, Charlez Ganz, John Francis Holme, Ida May Holme, Bertha Jacques, Frank C. Lockwood, Anton Mazzanovich, Ella Sterlin Mighels, Frank Marion Morris, Alfred Edward Newton, Will Ransom, Charles Henry Sloan, Vincent Starrett, Herbert Faulkner West, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and William Butler Yeats. Additional correspondents include the University of Arizona Library, the Charles Lamb Society, and the Cuala Press.

ArchivalResource: 2,557 pieces.15 gray boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499604 View

Frederick Coykendall papers, 1914-1928.

Title: Frederick Coykendall papers, 1914-1928.

Letters from various correspondents to American businessman and book collector Frederick Coykendall.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00829/catalog View

Cleverdon mss. II, 1926-1988

Title: Cleverdon mss. II 1926-1988

The Cleverdon mss. II, 1926-1988, consists of the papers of bookseller, publisher, and BBC producer and director, Douglas Cleverdon, 1903-1987.

ArchivalResource: ca. 22,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA9464 View