Records, 1913-1997.

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Records, 1913-1997.

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Correspondence with individual and institutional customers. Financial records include: invoices, cash sales books and booking ledgers as well as some tax records and stock certificates and records. The collection of catalogs consists mainly of marked copies. Miscellaneous material includes samples of enclosures and various letterhead formats; Correspondence includes but is not limited to a TLS (8 Jan. 1934) from John Goring to Edmund Byrne Hackett concerning pages of a manuscript supposedly dictated by Napoleon during his residence on St. Helena.

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Gilliam, Franklin, 1925-1994

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Brick Row Book Shop (Austin, Tex.)

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Hackett, Edmond Byrne, 1879-

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Edmond Byrne Hackett was born in Kilkenny, Ireland on June 8, 1879 and came to the United States in 1895. He was employed as a salesman by Doubleday Page & Company in New York from 1901-1907, and as manager of publishing by Baker & Taylor Company from 1907-1909. Hackett served as director of the Yale University Press soon after its founding in 1908. He was also the founder of the Brick Row Book Shop in New York. Hackett died on November 10, 1953. From the description of E. By...

Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.)

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