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London, Jack, 1876-1916. Jack London collection of papers, 1900-1948.

Title: Jack London collection of papers, 1900-1948.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence by and about the author, and financial and legal documents.

ArchivalResource: 168 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122596936 View

Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

Title: Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

Correspondence between bibliophiles Ernest James Wessen and JacobBlanck, with some additional items.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01876/catalog View

Lawrence Clark Powell papers concerning John Steinbeck, 1935-1941.

Title: LawrenceClark Powell papers concerning John Steinbeck, 1935-1941.

Papersconcerning American author John Steinbeck, assembled for bibliographic work byUCLA Librarian Lawrence Clark Powell.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02139/catalog View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Bickford" to "Brassey".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Bickford" to "Brassey".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122493179 View

Antiquarian bookman records-Malkin family papers, 1938-1996.

Title: Antiquarian bookman records-Malkin family papers, 1938-1996.

Correspondence, business and financial records of the Antiquarian bookman and its successor publication, AB bookman's weekly conducted by Sol Malkin with his wife Mary Ann O'Brien Malkin. Correspondents include but are not limited to: Frederick B. Adams, Mary Benjamin, Jacob Blanc, Philip Duschnes, Ben Grauer, Helmut Lehmann-Haupt, Percy Muir, Leona Rostenberg and Ellen Shaffer. Collection also includes personal papers of Sol and Mary Ann O'Brien Malkin and some professional and family photographs and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (24 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516198 View

Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

Title: Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

Correspondence between bibliophiles Ernest James Wessen and JacobBlanck, with some additional items.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01876/catalog View

Papers concerning Jonathan and the rainbow, 1947-1966.

Title: Papers concerning Jonathan and the rainbow, 1947-1966.

Drafts of Joseph Blanck's , as well ascorrespondence concerning its illustration and publication. Jonathan and the rainbow

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01659/catalog View

Berkeley, Dorothy Smith,. Papers pertaining to the Tracy W. McGregor Library and the McGregor Fund, 1955-1992.

Title: Papers pertaining to the Tracy W. McGregor Library and the McGregor Fund, 1955-1992.

The papers include: correspondence with book dealers, librarians, etc.; business papers; McGregor Fund annual reports of expenditures and purchase records; topical and miscellaneous files; electrostatic copies of descriptions of materials from dealer catalogues and other sources; notes regarding the John Forbes Collection and the Douglas Gordon Library; exhibition cards for the McGregor exhibit, 1970; a statement of the value of the printed material in Rare Books, 1983; and photographs. Correspondents include Jacob Blanck, Dorothy and Edmund Berkeley, Francis L. Berkeley, and Michael Mullins.

ArchivalResource: 200 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50298827 View

Jacob Blanck papers, 1930-1947

Title: Jacob Blanck papers 1930-1947

The collection consists primarily of corrected page proofs and a small amount of correspondence created and compiled during the publication of the fourth edition of Merle Johnson's American First Editions (1942).

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 1; Linear Feet: 0.42

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.blanck View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Wessen, Ernest James, 1887-1974. Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

Title: Ernest James Wessen correspondence with Jacob Blanck, 1944-1973.

The bulk of this collection is correspondence between bibliophiles Blanck and Wessen, documenting a thiry-year personal friendship and professional relationship. During most of this time (1950-1974), Blanck's BAL project was housed at Harvard University in the Houghton Library. The letters are chatty, frank, quite personal, and full of detailed information and comments on the antiquarian book trade, both business and people. Some of the additional letters included here were sent to Blanck by Wessen, detailing what Wessen thought were his amusing, though often controversial, interactions with collectors and other dealers. Other materials included are clippings, photographs, radio scripts, and essays about Wessen, as well as issue no. 89 of Wessen's rare materials catalog, Midland Notes, a few of Blanck's typescript essays, and microopaque card samples of Midland Notes.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612788807 View

Habberton, John, 1842-1921. Essay on the ideal novel [manuscript].

Title: Essay on the ideal novel [manuscript].

Letters, 1877-1900, to W.L. Sawyer, Harper & Brothers, N.Y. and others offering bibliographical information about Helen's babies, discussing a Civil War article and a piece on Tom Paine, lauding Harper & Brothers and requesting them not to dispose of a book without informing him. Letters, 1941 & 51, Jacob Nathaniel Blanck to Kummel and Colton Storm to Nathaniel E. Stein on the bibliographical letter [7 items holograph & typescript signed]--Magazine photo, n.d., of Habberton [1 l. print 28 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647928002 View

American authors collection, 1832-1956.

Title: American authors collection, 1832-1956.

Literary manuscripts and letters of American writers. Autographs, portraits, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565920 View

Seven Gables Bookshop, Inc. Records, 1930-1979.

Title: Seven Gables Bookshop, Inc. Records 1930-1979.

ArchivalResource: 84.23 linear feet (175 boxes, 23 correspondence file boxes)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079325 View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

Title: Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

Consists of letters to Blanck from various correspondents, mostly friends from Boston, but also from a few writers about whom he was doing bibliographical work. Includes 9 letters from Joseph Presser, 34 letters from Harold Koplow Zimmerman, and 9 drawings in pencil and crayon by Hyman Bloom.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612367260 View

Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View

Wallack, N.,. Birth announcement for Rosamunde Mildred Blanck, 1941 August 1.

Title: Birth announcement for Rosamunde Mildred Blanck, 1941 August 1.

The birth announcement for the daughter of bibliographer Jacob Blanck and his wife Stella is designed as if Rosamunde Mildred were a publication "The First in a Projected Series ... edition is strictly limited and will not be reissued in the present format ... bound in native kidskin ...," etc. Announcement is in an envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. N. Wallack.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49223969 View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Jacob Blanck correspondence with Richard S. Barnes, 1958.

Title: Jacob Blanck correspondence with Richard S. Barnes, 1958.

The collection consists of two items: typed, unsigned, carbon of a letter from Richard S. Barnes, bookseller, to Blanck, 22 May 1958, on the verso of an invoice voucher in Barnes's name; Barnes questions a publication date for H.C. Bunner's Seven Old Ladies of Lavender Town, referenced in Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature; also, Blanck's reply, 26 May 1958, noting that the copyright date Barnes mentions was for the magazine publication of Bunner's work, while the date Blanck gives is for the monographic publication.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85869593 View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Papers concerning Jonathan and the rainbow, 1947-1966.

Title: Papers concerning Jonathan and the rainbow, 1947-1966.

Includes typescript drafts with autograph revisions and corrections of Jonathan and the rainbow, as well as correspondence between Blanck and Houghton Mifflin. There is also correspondence between Blanck and the book's illustrator Louis Slobodkin, and between Houghton Mifflin and Slobodkin, as well as royalty accounts and other business records relating to the book.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79390075 View

I. R. Brussel Papers TXRC96-A40., 1903-1973, (bulk 1929-1970)

Title: I. R. Brussel Papers 1903-1973 (bulk 1929-1970)

Papers consist mainly ofincoming correspondence from the many authors, book dealers, and bookcollectors who were both colleagues and friends of Brussel, with very fewresponses by Brussel present. The collection highlights Brussel's work in thebook trade over five decades.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00021/00021-P.html View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Letter : to William Targ, 1957 Apr. 17.

Title: Letter : to William Targ, 1957 Apr. 17.

Makes suggestions for preface (of Bibliophile in the nursery?), based on reading Targ's galleys.

ArchivalResource: 1 item. 2 p. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122617123 View

Jack London collection of papers, 1900-1948

Title: Jack London collection of papers 1900-1948

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence, and financial and legal documents.

ArchivalResource: 168 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19303 View

Winterich, John Tracy, 1891-1970. Papers, 1917-1966.

Title: Papers, 1917-1966.

Includes correspondence, typescripts, pamphlets, broadsides, reprints, excerpts, invitations, programs, menus, announcements, prospectuses, newspaper clippings, photographs (one signed by FDR), First Day Covers.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 4009 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122418631 View

Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

Title: Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

Correspondence of American bibliographer and author Jacob Blanck.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00669/catalog View

Espionage papers, 1775-1956 .

Title: Espionage papers, 1775-1956 .

Letters, reports, and documents involving matters of espionage in all nations.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01353/catalog View

Seven Gables Bookshop. Records, 1930-1979.

Title: Records, 1930-1979.

Correspondence and catalogs of Seven Gables Bookshop, and some early letters from Collector's Bookshop and Papantonio's Bookshop. There are many letters in the collection from major universities and colleges and from famous collectors such as C. Waller Barrett, Thomas W. Streeter, Jacob Blanck, and Josiah K. Lilley. Also, miscellaneous correspondence and notes of John Kohn.

ArchivalResource: ca. 80,600 items (175 boxes, 23 correspondence file boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506126900 View

Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-1975. Jonathan and the rainbow : production material.

Title: Jonathan and the rainbow : production material.

Printer's proof, original watercolor with text paste-up. Jonathan fights a duel with his friend, a retired pirate captain, to make him free the rainbox he has trapped in his cellar.

ArchivalResource: Illustrations: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62687103 View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Collection of offprints and pamphlets by Jacob Blanck.

Title: Collection of offprints and pamphlets by Jacob Blanck. 1937-1968.

ArchivalResource: 33 pieces

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612828920 View

Brussel, I. R. (Isidore Rosenbaum), 1895-. Papers, 1903-1973 (bulk 1929-1970).

Title: Papers, 1903-1973 (bulk 1929-1970).

Consisting of one and a half document boxes, the I.R. Brussel papers contain mainly correspondence from the many authors, book dealers, and book collectors who were both colleagues and friends of Brussel. Correspondents include Jacob Blanck, James Branch and Margaret Cabell, Francis Norman, Alan Odle, Frank C. Pape, Dorothy Miller Richardson, William White, and Clark Wikle, among others. Also present are notes, clippings, reprints, and cards pertaining to the book trade. Two pen and ink illustrations by Pape are also part of the Brussel papers.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 boxes (.62 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453204 View

Hitz, Benjamin D. Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.

Title: Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949.

Chiefly correspondence of Benjamin D. Hitz with librarians, booksellers, experts, and friends of Willa Cather relating to Hitz's search for information about Willa Cather and for first editions of her work. Also a small collection of incoming and outgoing Willa Cather correspondence (including twelve original Cather letters) and biographical, bibliographical, and critical notes.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45855202 View

Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. Letter, 1954, November, to David Jonah.

Title: Letter, 1954, November, to David Jonah.

Fable, moral of which is that his gifts to Brown University Library need not be acknowledged. First page typed on verso of acknowledgment he received.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383794 View