Personal papers, correspondence, and AB Bookman's Weekly business records, ca. 1930-1970.

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Personal papers, correspondence, and AB Bookman's Weekly business records, ca. 1930-1970.

Letters, military records, personal and business papers, press photos, submissions, address books, ephemera, etc. Includes extensive correspondence with pulp editor and writer Harold Brainerd Hersey; collection of more than 50 pieces of early erotica catalogs and promotional fliers from the Vanguard Press, Falstaff Press, etc.; several letters from noted erotica publishers; letters from other aficionados of "curiosa", including artist Joseph Rene Gockinga; typescripts of various AB Bookman's Weekly contributions; and correspondence from many prominent bookmen, including Matthew Bruccoli, John Carter, Alfred Knopf Jr., and Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern.

1 linear ft. ; 25 cm. and smaller

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968535

Grolier Club

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Malkin, Solomon M., -1986

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The Antiquarian bookman began as a feature in Publisher's weekly and became a separate publication in 1948 under the editorship of Sol M. Malkin. R. R. Bowker Co. was the publisher until July 1953 when Malkin became publisher as well as editor. In 1967 the title was changed to AB bookman's weekly. Malkin, assisted by his wife, Mary Ann O'Brien Malkin, ran the magazine until 1974. "AB" was a trade publication used by antiquarian booksellers to locate rare, out-of-print and scarce titles, and serv...