Correspondence : with Theodore Dreiser, 1917-1938.

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Correspondence : with Theodore Dreiser, 1917-1938.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the editorial staff and administration of Boni & Liveright. Also contains correspondence from the law firms representing both Dreiser and Boni & Liveright.

690 items (1090 leaves + 12 bound legal documents)

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Boni, Albert, 1892-1981

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Boni was born in 1892 in New York City; attended Harvard Univ.; in 1912, with his brother Charles, he established the Washington Square Book Shop, a gathering place for Bohemian intellectuals; about 1914 originated the idea of a very small format for abridged classics called "The Little Leather Library," which were sold through Woolworth's; sold the book shop in 1917 and joined Horace Liveright to form the Boni-Liveright Publishing Co., which introduced the "Modern Library of the World's Best Cl...

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Pell, Arthur.

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Messner, Julian.

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Hummel, George F. (George Frederick), 1882-1952

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Siwek, Manuel.

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Friede, Donald

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Seltzer, Thomas

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Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961

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Nizer, Louis, 1902-1994

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The New York City publishing firm of Boni & Liveright began in 1917 with Charles Boni and Horace Liveright issuing the Modern Library Series. Boni's uncle, Thomas Seltzer, quickly became a third partner, but he left four months after Liveright had bought out Boni in July of 1918. Soon afterwards Liveright sold vice presidencies to Julian Messner and Leon Fleischman. Fleischman left the firm in 1920 to be replaced by Bennett Cerf that same year. In 1925 Cerf bought the rights to the Modern Li...

Komroff, Manuel, 1890-1974

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Gold, Mary

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Boni & Liveright

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The firm of Boni & Liveright went through three distinct name changes during the time of this correspondence, two of which are recognized in these files. Rather than separate the correspondence of the firm, correspondence from Horace Liveright, Inc. was housed under this heading. From the description of Correspondence : with Theodore Dreiser, 1917-1938. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122479782 New York publishing firm. From the desc...

Hume, Arthur Carter.

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Goldman, Ida Eugénie.

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Smith, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1880-1942

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Cane, Melville, 1879-1980

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