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Records, 1931-

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Minutes of meetings (1941-present) and a summary of the years 1931-1940 prepared in 1942 by E. Byrne Hackett, one of the founders. Correspondence, chiefly about membership matters and meeting attendance (1931-present). Pen-and-ink sketches by Alfred F. Goldsmith, usually incorporating a caricature self-portrait and a contemporary book-trade scene (1931-1947). Correspondence between A. Edward Newton and Ernest R. Gee about the printing, distribution, and income from Eddie Newton's Ride, and about the Antiquarian Booksellers' Fund, a benevolent fund for booksellers (1934). Correspondents include but are not limited to: James J. Drake; Ernest Gee; Edward Lazare, Heinz D. Lubrecht; Thomas P. MacDonnell; Aaron Mendoza; Douglas G. Parsonage; Walter Schatzki, and Lawrence C. Witten. The names of most correspondents are indicated in the collection inventory. Minutes of meetings (1941-present) and a summary of the years 1931-1940 prepared in 1942 by E. Byrne Hackett, one of the founders. Correspondence, chiefly about membership matters and meeting attendance (1931-present). Pen-and-ink sketches by Alfred F. Goldsmith, usually incorporating a caricature self-portrait and a contemporary book-trade scene (1931-1947). Correspondence between A. Edward Newton and Ernest R. Gee about the printing, distribution, and income from Eddie Newton's Ride, and about the Antiquarian Booksellers' Fund, a benevolent fund for booksellers (1934). Financial records and treasurers' reports (1968-present). Membership and mailing lists (1971-present). Printed dinner menus (1993-present). Printed ephemera, constitutions, historical sketches, and other club publications (1933-present). Correspondence and research notes of Joseph J. Felcone while compiling The Old Book Table. A Record of its First Seventy-Five Years, 1931-2005 (2004-2005). Photograph of an Old Book Table dinner (undated but 1939-1943). Miscellaneous photographs of club members, spouses, guests, collectors and other rare-books-world personalities (ca. 1940-present). Printed keepsakes. The names of most correspondents are indicated in the collection inventory.

8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

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Grolier Club

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Goldsmith, Alfred F.

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Alfred Francis Goldsmith was born in Atlantic City, N.J. and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He opened his shop, At the Sign of the Sparrow, in the Gramercy Park area of New York City in the early 1920s. His primary interests were Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman. Goldsmith helped Carolyn Wells acquire her major collection of Whitmaniana, which she later left to the Library of Congress. Their descriptive bibliography of Whitman's works appeared in 1922. We...

Antiquarian Booksellers Provident Fund.

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Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956

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Parsonage, Douglas G., 1907-1983.

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Witten, Laurence C.

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Lazare, Edward J.

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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...

Newton, A. Edward 1864-1940,

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Lubrecht, Heinz D., 1908-1997.

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Old Book-Table (Club)

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Founded in New York in 1931 and originally named the Book Table, the Old Book Table is a social club composed of antiquarian booksellers and those engaged in professions related to antiquarian bookselling. The club meets regularly throughout the year to transact business and to enjoy social amenities. Guests, chiefly collectors, rare books librarians, and colleagues in the antiquarian book world, are frequently invited to meetings. In the course of its first seventy-five years, the club had 88 m...

Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983

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Bookseller. From the description of Reminiscences of Walter Schatzki : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158116 Schatzki was a dealer in old and rare books, prints, and autographs in New York City. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864344 ...

Felcone, Joseph J.

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Antiquarian Booksellers Fund.

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Book Table.

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Gomme, Laurence J. (Laurence James), 1882-

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Bookseller, of New York City; publisher of The Circus and Other Essays (1916) by Joyce Kilmer. From the description of Papers relating to Joyce Kilmer, 1915-1928 (bulk 1915-1918). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122429057 The Gommes were collectors of performing arts ephemera. Laurence Gomme was a bookseller, publisher and also an appraiser who evaluated collections of performing artists. Florence Cornell Gomme, his wife was an actress. From the guide to the Laure...

MacDonnell, Thomas P

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Drake, James (James F.)

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