Reminiscences of Ben W. Huebsch : oral history, 1955.

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Reminiscences of Ben W. Huebsch : oral history, 1955.

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New York, N.Y. in the 1890s; schooling; apprenticeship with a lithographer; work as a printer; early ventures in publishing; Gelett Burgess; Francis Hackett; first US publication of Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce; friendship with Joyce, Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig; editing and publishing THE FREEMAN; correspondence with D.H. Lawrence, 1916-23; Henry Ford Peace Expedition, 1915-16; genesis of Viking Press; H.G. Wells; Hendrik Willem Van Loon; origins of American Civil Liberties Union; correspondence with John Quinn on Joyce and others; letters from H.L. Mencken; general comments on book publishing.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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