Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1954.

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Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1954.

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Items relate to the New American Library's printing of William Bradford Huie's The execution of Private Slovik, a copy of which Sellin read in galley form. Correspondents include Theodore Waller (editorial vice president for the company) and Harold Lasswell (the Yale law professor who brought the book to Sellin's attention).

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New American Library.

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NAL, based in New York and beginning in 1948, produced affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works, as well as popular, pulp, and "hard-boiled" fiction. Non-fiction, original, and hardcopy issues were also produced. Victor Weybright and Kurt Enoch founded the New American Library of World Literature, Inc. (NAL), in 1948. NAL was established as an autonomous American publishing house after branching off from its British-based parent company, Penguin Book...

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Waller, Theodore

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