Papers on book collecting, 1957-1993 (bulk 1977-1993).

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Papers on book collecting, 1957-1993 (bulk 1977-1993).

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Correspondence, catalogs, prospectuses, photographs and miscellaneousmaterials documenting the book collecting activities of Arnold and Mimi Elkind with emphasis on the years 1977 to 1993. The collection includes business documents, correspondence and prospectuses for the limited partnership ventures partially financed by Arnold Elkind for the production, publishing and distribution of limited editions by the Pennyroyal Press, Cheloniidae Press, Arion Press, Red Ozier Press, and Arctic Whaling Associates. Correspondence with book designers and artists includes but is not limited to material from: Susan Alix, Leonard Baskin (Gehenna Press), Carol J. Blinn (Warwick Press), Barbara Blumenthal (Catawba Press), Sarah Chamberlain, Andrew Hoyem (Arion Press), Edna Lazaron, Eugene Jackson, Shirley Jones (Red Hen Press), Joe Lubbock, John Randle (Whittington Press), Alan James Robinson (Cheloniidae Press and Hampshire Typothetae), Richard-Gabriel Rummonds (Ex Ophidia Press), and Philip Smith. There is also correspondence from rare book dealers Stanley Bray, Colin Franklin, Charles J. Sawyer, and Thomas Taylor. Most files include outgoing correspondence from Arnold or Mimi Elkind. The Mimi Elkind papers include her extensive correspondence about the firm of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a collection of hand printed and hand painted Christmas cards received from book artists between 1982 and 1991, and the typescript of her unpublished work, "Hooked on books." Also: notices and announcement from several book arts organizations, particularly the Society of Bibliophiles (Albany, N.Y.). The catalog material includes the typescript (in two loose-leaf notebooks) of the Elkind's primary collection, as well as over 1600 catalog cards recording the data for the typescript and notes on smaller collections such as cookbooks, Chinese and Japanese material, and book auctions.

13 boxes (7.4 linear ft.)1600 catalog cards ; 6 x 10 cm.2 loose-leaf notebooks ; 29 cm.54 photographs (some col.) ; 20 x 30 cm. and smaller.

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Moser, Barry

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Moser was born on Oct. 15, 1940 in Chattanooga, TN; became a graphic artist and printmaker; attended Auburn Univ.; studied with George Cress at the Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and with Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin; head of studio art, Williston Northampton School (1967-82), and beginning in 1990, with the Rhode Island School of Design; exhibited in one-man shows at the Berkshire Museum (1973) and the Boston Athenaeum (1976); also exhibited at the Los Angeles National Print Show (1974) a...

Red Hen Press

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Gehenna press

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Elkind, Mimi Wieder.

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Red Ozier Press

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The Red Ozier Press is a private press noted for its fine quality limited editions of works by notable authors. The press was founded by Steven Ken Miller in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1976. In 1979 Miller moved the business to New York City and ran it with Ken Botnick. From the guide to the Red Ozier Press records, 1971-1986, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) The Red Ozier Press is a private press noted for its fine quality limited e...

Smith, Philip, 1928-

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Lubbock, Joe

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Allix, Susan J., 1943-

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Stone House Press.

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Pennyroyal Press

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Franklin, Colin

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Dwyer, Geoffrey P.

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Elkind, Arnold B.

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Arnold Elkind graduated from New York University in 1933 and married Mimi Wieder in 1946. He pursued a successful business and legal career inAlbany, New York. Around 1968 the Elkinds began to collect fine books. Arnold Elkind's collecting focused on living printers, hand bookbinders and book designers/artists, particularly those who maintained their own presses; he sometimes helped them financially. In the 1980s he entered into several limited partnerships to produce fine press edi...

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Sawyer, Charles J. (Charles James), 1876?-1931

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