Records, 1947-1976.

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Records, 1947-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541825

A small collection of materials from a short-lived American science fiction publisher, established by science fiction fans James A. Williams, Al Prime, and Oswald Train in 1947; including correspondence, clippings, galley proofs, manuscripts, photographs, and pasteups. Manuscripts and galleys for the works of the following writers are included; Frederick B. Adams, Nelson Bond, Jack Bechdolt, Lester Del Rey, Mary Griffith, George O. Smith, and Theodore Sturgeon. There is a small amount of correspondencefrom publisher, Oswald Train.

1.6 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6756552

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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Smith, George H.

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Griffith, Mary, -1846

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Author and horticulturalist; born Mary Corre; married John Griffith (d. 1815), a wealthy New York City merchant; purchased a farm ("Charlieshope") in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, ca. 1820 and lived there until she sold the property ca. 1836; wrote Our Neighbourhood, or Letters on Horticulture and Natural Phenomena, published 1831, and Camperdown, or News from Our Neighborhood, published 1836; died at Red Hook, Duchess County, New York, in 1846. Note: death date listed incorrec...

Prime Press (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Prime Press, established in 1947, was responsible for bringing the genre of science fiction out of the "pulps" into the mainstream. From the description of Records, 1947-1976. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122541825 ...

Bond, Nelson Slade, 1908-

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Sturgeon, Theodore

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Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26, 1918 in Staten Island, New York. After his parents' divorced, his mother married Scot William Dicky ("Argylle") Sturgeon, and at the age of eleven, Edward took his step-father's last name and changed his first name to Theodore to better match his childhood nickname of "Teddy." Sturgeon sold his first story in 1938 to newspaper McClure's Syndicate. He sold his first Science Fiction story, "Ether Breather," t...

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 ...

Bechdolt, Jack, 1884-1954

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Train, Oswald

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Del Rey, Lester, 1915-1993

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