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

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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.

19 boxes (24 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6744056

Grolier Club

Related Entities

There are 12 Entities related to this resource.

Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001

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Frederick B. Adams was director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. From the description of Correspondence : with Carl Zigrosser, 1948-1964. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902633 Noted collector, scholar and friend of Robert Frost. From the description of Introduction of Robert Frost at the Poetry Center, 1962 April 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50420452 ...

Lehmann-Haupt, Helmut, 1903-

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Duschnes, Philip C.

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Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974

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American bibliographer. From the description of Letter : to William Targ, 1957 Apr. 17. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122617123 Jacob Blanck's career as a bibliographer and editor included positions as rare book editor of Publishers Weekly and Antiquarian Bookman, 1936-1952; bibliographer in Americana at the Library of Congress, 1939-1941; and editor of Bibliography of American Literature, 1943-1974. He al...

Malkin, Solomon M., -1986

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The Antiquarian bookman began as a feature in Publisher's weekly and became a separate publication in 1948 under the editorship of Sol M. Malkin. R. R. Bowker Co. was the publisher until July 1953 when Malkin became publisher as well as editor. In 1967 the title was changed to AB bookman's weekly. Malkin, assisted by his wife, Mary Ann O'Brien Malkin, ran the magazine until 1974. "AB" was a trade publication used by antiquarian booksellers to locate rare, out-of-print and scarce titles, and serv...

Malkin family.

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Rostenberg, Leona

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Madeleine Bettina Stern, born in New York City on 1 July 1912, and Leona Rostenberg, born in New York on 28 Dec. 1908, first met in 1929 while teaching Hebrew School at Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El. At the time, Stern was a freshman at Barnard College, and Rostenberg was completing her undergraduate studies at New York University. Four years later, after Stern received her Master's Degree in medieval English literature from Columbia University, the two women met again and began a lif...

Grauer, Ben

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Born in Staten Island, N.Y., Benjamin Franklin Grauer (1908-1977) had a prosperous career as a child actor in the 1920s, both in film and on Broadway. He graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School, the preparatory school for City College of New York, and he received his B.A. from City College in 1930. Grauer started in radio as an actor but soon became part of the broadcasting staff at the National Broadcasting Company. On the radio, he was associated with Walter Winchell, Eleanor Roosevelt...

Malkin, Mary Ann O'Brien.

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Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979

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Born in London on December 17, 1894, Percy Muir began his career as a bookseller in 1920. He joined the London antiquarian booksellers Elkin Mathews in 1930, and would remain with that firm until his death in Norfolk on November 24, 1979. Muir was an influential figure among booksellers and book collectors around the world. As president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association in Britain from 1945-1947, Muir chaired the first conference of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (I...

Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-Correspondence.

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Benjamin, Mary A.

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Represented are David Henley, colonel in the American Revolution and Indian agent for the region around Maryville, Tenn.; John F. Watson, historian; Charles C. Wellford, merchant of Fredericksburg, Va.; and Danial Ruggles of Virginia, veteran of the Mexican War and later C.S.A. general. From the description of Letters, 1805-1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135405 ...