Irwin Cohen collection

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Irwin Cohen collection

1896-1995

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1508

Irwin Cohen (1947- ), a bibliophile and book collector, is manager of the Time Warner, Inc., Bookstore in New York City. When was in high school, Mr. Cohen first encountered and read Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, which led him to collect works by and about her. He eventually met Miss Barnes, when his wife, Francesca Belanger, then senior designer at Dial Press was assigned to Miss Barnes's last book, Creatures in an Alphabet. The Cohen collection consists of artwork, clippings, manuscripts, proofs, photographs, and publications by and about Djuna Barnes and her era. Materials related to the publication of Creatures in an Alphabet form a large part of the collection. The books that came with the collection were seperated for cataloging. An index of the 41 books removed from the collection is avaialbe upon request.

4.50 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7537649

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Barnes, Djuna, 1892-1982

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61m024z (person)

Noted journalist and avant-garde author Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on June 12, 1892, the second child and only daughter of Wald and Elizabeth Chappell Barnes. Barnes studied art at the Pratt Institute (1912-1913) and at the Art Student's League of New York (1915-1916). In 1913, she began working as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and was soon writing and illustrating features and interviews for the New Y...

Barnes, Elizabeth Chappell, 1862-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6642dcq (person)

Elizabeth Chappell was born on November 3, 1862 in Oakham, County Rutland. She moved to London to study the violin, and there met Wald Barnes, whom she married in 1889. They had five children together, including the Modernist writer Djuna Barnes. Elizabeth Chappell Barnes died on March 15, 1945 in Manhattan....

Cohen, Irwin, 1947-

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Irwin Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 21, 1947, the second son of Lillian and Murray Cohen. He spent the first twenty years of his life in Brooklyn before moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to attend the University of Fort Lauderdale. After graduation, Cohen moved to Manhattan and began working for Time Inc., managing their employee bookstore. He is currently manager of the Time Warner Inc. Bookstore. Cohen married Francesca Belanger, a senior designer for Viking p...