Kurt Enoch papers, 1960-1978.

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Kurt Enoch papers, 1960-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466010

Collection consists of papers dealing mainly with the merger in 1960 of the NAL and the Times Mirror Company, and the subsequent development of NAL as an autonomous subsidiary.

12.2 linear feet (13 boxes)

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6724153

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Ballantine Books (Firm)

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Weybridge, Victor.

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Times Mirror Company

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Penguin (Firm)

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Enoch, Kurt, 1894-1982.

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Kurt Enoch (1894-1982) was a German-born publisher. After a career in Europe as a publisher of paperback reprints of British and American authors, Enoch came to the United States in 1940. In 1942 he joined Penguin Books, and in 1947, with Victor Weybridge, acquired controlling interest in the parent company, and changed the corporate name to the New American Library of World Literature (NAL). Enoch was instrumental in the 1960 merger of NAL and the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, and played...

Overlook Press.

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New American Library.

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NAL, based in New York and beginning in 1948, produced affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works, as well as popular, pulp, and "hard-boiled" fiction. Non-fiction, original, and hardcopy issues were also produced. Victor Weybright and Kurt Enoch founded the New American Library of World Literature, Inc. (NAL), in 1948. NAL was established as an autonomous American publishing house after branching off from its British-based parent company, Penguin Book...