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Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.). Records, 1913-1997.

Title: Records, 1913-1997.

Correspondence with individual and institutional customers. Financial records include: invoices, cash sales books and booking ledgers as well as some tax records and stock certificates and records. The collection of catalogs consists mainly of marked copies. Miscellaneous material includes samples of enclosures and various letterhead formats; Correspondence includes but is not limited to a TLS (8 Jan. 1934) from John Goring to Edmund Byrne Hackett concerning pages of a manuscript supposedly dictated by Napoleon during his residence on St. Helena.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/170885483 View

Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

Papers of department store owner and book collector Robert BorthwickAdam, consisting mostly of correspondence with fellow collectors and scholars,photographic portraits, and materials relating to the published catalogs of hismanuscript collection.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 4volumes (22.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01764/catalog View

Roy Vernon Sowers and Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers, 1629-1994.

Title: Roy Vernon Sowers and Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers, 1629-1994.

Items generated or received by either Margaret or both Roy and Margaret together. Includes many fine press examples, some personal correspondence, and library exhibit materials.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122369493 View

Mary Hyde Eccles papers, 1853-2005, (bulk) 1939-2003.

Title: Mary Hyde Eccles papers, 1853-2005, (bulk) 1939-2003.

Correspondence and other personal papers of Mary Hyde Eccles, a collector and literary scholar whose primary interest was Samuel Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 88 linear feet (84 boxes, 3 pf boxes, and 7 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01787/catalog View

Swann, Arthur, 1875-1959. Papers and correspondence, [1900-1956], (bulk 1910-1930).

Title: Papers and correspondence, [1900-1956], (bulk 1910-1930).

Letters from booksellers and collectors to Swann concerning his activities in the New York book trade. Also holograph appraisal of the library of J.P. Morgan made in 1915-1916 with the assistance of Joseph Martini (Guiseppe Martini). Collection includes testimonials gathered by Swann in England in 1900 as to his character and ability and two typescripts by him on important sales. Correspondents include Cortlandt Field Bishop, P.J. Foley, and Byrne Hackett of the Brick Row Book Shop. Collection includes undated typescript by Ernest Dawson, "What's wrong with the book trade?" Also three photographs and some clippings relating to Swann's departure from the American Art Association in 1927 and other related topics.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)photographs 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568469 View