Roger E. Stoddard. Curator of rare books, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Cambridge, November 8, 1989, and November 8, 1990.
William P. Stoneman. Scheide librarian, Princeton University, and editor of Gazette of the Grolier Club. Princeton, March 9, 1990, and March 20, 1992.
Frank S. Streeter. Collector, son of Thomas W. Streeter. New York, June 7, 1991.
David Sullivan. Curator of rare books, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Telephone conversation, August 19, 1992.
Sem Sutter. Bibliographer for Western European Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Library. Chicago, October 5, 1990.
Louis I. Szathmary II. Restaurateur, collector, philanthropist. Providence, September 6, 1990, and August 20, 1992.
G. Thomas Tanselle. Bibliographer, collector, vice president of Guggenheim Foundation and past president of the Grolier Club. New York, April 25, 1990.
Louise Taper. Collector of Lincolniana. Beverly Hills, June 12, 1991.
Jerry Tucker. F.B.I, special agent. Omaha, August 15, 1991.
John Van Home. Librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, January 10, 1990.
Peter M. Van Wingen. Specialist for the Book Arts, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., January 3, 1992.
Arthur E. Vershbow and Charlotte Vershbow. Collectors of illustrated books. Newton, Massachusetts, February 7, 1990.
Frank Walker. Director of special collections, New York University. Telephone conversation, March 27, 1992.
Elizabeth Walsh. Reading room supervisor, Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, D.C., January 3, 1992.
David G. Waxman. Bookseller in Great Neck, New York, and friend of Haven O’More. Telephone conversation, October 28, 1991.
Louis Weinstein and Ben Weinstein. Founders of Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, August 7, 1990.
Ruth R. Wisse. Professor of Yiddish at Harvard University, mentor to Aaron Lansky. Telephone conversation, August 6, 1992.
Edwin Wolf 2nd. Bookman and biographer of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia, January 10, 1990.
David Zeidberg. Director of special collections, University of California at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, June 13, 1991.
Michael Zinman. Collector of American imprints. Ardsley, New York, August 5, 1990, and October 12, 1992.
Archives
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Correspondence of Clarence S. Brigham and Henry E. Huntington.
Grolier Club, New York City. Three volumes of newspaper clippings concerning the Robert Hoe III auction in New York City, 1911–1912.
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Documents pertaining to George D. Smith, Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, and Henry Huntington’s acquisition of the E. Dwight Church Collection in 1911.
Newberry Library, Chicago. Files pertaining to formation of library and acquisition of Louis H. Silver library.
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia. Rosenbach Company Archives. Correspondence of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach and Henry E. Huntington, Belle da Costa Greene, John H. Scheide, Frank Hogan, Estelle Doheny, Eleanor Elkins Widener, Henry Folger, and William Andrews Clark.
General Bibliography
Achilles, Rolf, ed. Humanities’ Mirror: Reading at the Newberry, 1887–1987. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1987.
Adams, Randolph G. Three Americanists. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1939.
Adams, Thomas R. “Chapin Library: An Idea.” Williams College Alumni Review, May 1956, 23–26.
Adelman, Seymour. The Moving Pageant. Lititz, Pa.: Sutter House, 1977.
Ahearn, Allen, and Patricia Ahearn. Collected Books: The Guide to Values. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991.
Allan, P. B. The Book-Hunter at Home. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920.
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena. Princeton: Princeton University Press; New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Altick, Richard D. The Scholar Adventurers. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Amory, Hugh. First Impressions: Printing in Cambridge, 1639–1989: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library and at the Harvard Law School Library October 6 through October 27, 1989. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1989. Includes an annual census of the Bay Psalm Book.
Anderson Auction Co. The Library of Robert Hoe of New York. 8 vols. New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1911–1912. Foreword by Beverly Chew and bibliographical notes in “Part I: A to K.”
Anderson Galleries. The Library of Jerome Kern. 2 vols. New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1929.
Anderton, Basil. Fragrance Among Old Volumes: Essays and Idylls of a Book Lover. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1910.
Andrews, Irene Dwen. Owners of Books: The Dissipations of a Collector. Washington, D.C.: Bruin Press, 1936.
Arnold, Denis, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Music. 2 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Arnold, William Harris. Ventures in Book Collecting. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives. Edited by Richard Barber. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.
Auchincloss, Louis. J. P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
Austin, Gabriel. The Library of Jean Grolier. With an introductory essay by Colin Eisler. New York: Grolier Club, 1971.
——— , ed. Four Oaks Farm. Somerville, N.J.: Privately printed, 1967.
——— , ed. Four Oaks Library. Somerville, N.J.: Privately printed, 1967.
Avrin, Leila. Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Chicago: American Library Association; London: British Library, 1991.
Babb, James T. A Bibliography of the Writings of William McFee. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Introduction and notes by William McFee.
Baldwin, Ruth M. 100 Rhyming Nineteenth-Century Alphabets in English from the Library of Ruth M. Baldwin. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simmons, 1972.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Literary Industries: A Memoir. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
Barker, Nicolas. Portrait of an Obsession. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967. An adaptation of the five-volume Phillipps Studies by A. N. L. Munby.
Barker, Nicolas, and John Collins. A Sequel to an Enquiry into the Nature of Certain XlXth Century Pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard. London: Scolar Press, 1983.
Barker, Nicolas, et al. Treasures of the British Library. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Barrett, Clifton Waller. “Some Bibliographical Adventures in Americana.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1st quarter, 1950, 17–28.
Baskin, Lisa Unger. The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years, 1942–1992. Dallas: Bridwell Library and Gehenna Press, 1992. Catalogue of an exhibition curated by Lisa Unger Baskin. Essay by Colin Franklin. Bibliography by Hosea Baskin. Notes on the books by Leonard Baskin.
Bate, W. Jackson. Samuel Johnson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
The Bay Psalm Book. New York: New England Society, 1903. A facsimile reprint of the first edition printed by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640, with an introduction and census by Wilberforce Eames.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to Its Collections. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Introduction by Louis L. Martz.
Benjamin, Walter. “Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting.” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Translated from the German by Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Bennett, Paul A., ed. Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1951.
Bentinck-Smith, William. Building a Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1976.
Berger, Sanford. William Morris: The Sanford and Helen Berger Co
llection. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library and University Art Museum, 1984.
Bergin, Thomas G. Boccaccio. New York: Viking Press, 1981.
Bibliographica: Papers on Books, Their History and Art. 3 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1895–1897.
Bibliosophia; or Book-Wisdom: Containing Some Account of the Pride, Pleasure, and Privileges, of that Glorious Vocation, Book-Collecting. London: William Miller, 1810. A contemporary satire of Thomas Frognall Dibdin written pseudonymously “By an Aspirant,” but attributed in 1965 by William A. Jackson to James Beresford.
Bibliotheca Phillippica: Manuscripts on Vellum and Paper from the 9th to the 18th Centuries from the Celebrated Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps. New York: H. P. Kraus, 1979.
Bidwell, John, and Carol R. Briggs, eds. A Bibliophile’s Los Angeles: Essays for the International Association of Bibliophiles on the Occasion of Its XlVth Congress, 30 September-11 October, 1985. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1985.
Bierstadt, O. A. The Library of Robert Hoe. New York: Privately printed, 1895.
Bishop, Morris. Petrarch and His World. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1963.
Blades, William. “Bibliographical Hoaxing: Count De Fortsas’s Library.” The Philobiblon 2 (April 1863): 75–84.
——— . The Enemies of Books. London: Elliot Stock, 1902.
Blockson, Charles L., ed. Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
——— . The Underground Railroad: First Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North. New York: Prentice Hall, 1987.
Blotner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography. 1974. Rev. ed. New York: Random House, 1984. A one-volume edition, revised, updated, and condensed by Blotner from the 1974, two-volume edition.
Blumberg, Stephen Carrie. “Biography.” A 43-page autobiographical reflection, and “Trips,” a 12-page summary of book theft. Both written at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, and used by permission of Dr. Henry B. Blumberg.
Blumenthal, Walter Hart. Bookmen’s Bedlam: An Olio of Literary Oddities. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.
Bond, William H. Introduction to The Philip Hofer Bequest: A Catalogue of an Exhibition in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1988.
——— . Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: A Whig and His Books. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
——— , ed. Records of a Bibliographer: Selected Papers of William Alexander Jackson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1967.
Bonnardot, Alfred. The Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile: A Satirical Tale. Translated from the French and edited by Theodore Wesley Koch. Chicago: Privately printed, 1931.
Book Collecting and Scholarship: Essays by Theodore C. Blegen, James Ford Bell, Stanley Pargellis, Colton Storm and Louis B. Wright. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1954.
The Book-Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Being a Miscellany of Curiously Interesting and Generally Unknown Facts about the World’s Literature and Literary People; Now Newly Arranged, with Incidental Divertissement, and All Very Delightful to Read. San Francisco: The Book-Lover Press, 1900.
Boyd, Julian P. The Scheide Library. Princeton: Privately printed, 1947.
Boynton, Henry Walcott. Annals of American Bookselling. With an introduction by Joseph Rosenblum. 1932. Reprint. New Castle, Dela.: Oak Knoll Books, 1991.
Brant, Sebastian. The Ship of Fools. Translated from the German by Alexander Barclay. Edinburgh: William Paterson; New York: D. Appleton, 1874.
Brigham, Clarence S. Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, 1908–1958. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1958.
Brinley, Charles A. “Recollections of Charles Brinley Written for His Great Grandchildren.” Unpublished memoir dated September 13, 1910; includes information on his father, George Brinley. Typescript copy at Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Brodsky, Louis Daniel. William Faulkner: Life Glimpses. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
——— . “George D. Smith and the Anglo-American Book Migration.” AB Bookman’s Weekly, June 14, 1993, 2424–38.
Buck, Janet Camp. “Charles Augustus Howell and the Exhumation of Rossetti’s Poems.” The Colophon, part 15, 1933, unpaginated (12 pages).
Burden, Carter. “Voluminous Obsession.” House & Garden, March 1987, 126.
Burton, John Hill. The Book-Hunter. New York: Sheldon, 1862.
Cahoon, Herbert. “The Clifton Waller Barrett Library,” parts 1 and 2. The University of Virginia News Letter 38, no. 1 (September 15, 1961): 1–4, and no. 2 (October 15, 1961): 5–8.
Canetti, Elias. Auto-da-Fé. New York: The Noonday Press, 1984.
Canfora, Luciano. The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World. Translated from the Italian by Martin Ryle. London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989.
Cannon, Carl L. American Book Collectors and Collecting from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1941.
Carcopino, Jérôme. Cicero: The Secrets of His Correspondence. 2 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951.
Carpenter, Kenneth E., ed. Books and Society in History. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1983.
——— . The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1986. Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 1952. 6th ed., revised by Nicolas Barker. London: Granada, 1980.
——— . Books and Book-Collectors. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1957.
——— . Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1948.
——— , ed. New Paths in Book-Collecting. London: Constable, 1934.
Carter, John, and Percy H. Muir, eds. Printing and the Mind of Man. London: Cassell; New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.
Carter, John, and Graham Pollard. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. London: Constable; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934.
Carter, Sebastian. The Book Becomes: The Making of a Fine Edition. London: Rampant Lions Press, 1984.
Case, Josephine Young, and Everett Needham Case. Owen D. Young and American Enterprise. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982.
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. 5 vols. Hartford: Geo. A. Leavitt, 1879–1893.
Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives of New York. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.
Cervantes, Miguel de. The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by Tobias Smollett, with an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Chappell, Warren. A Short History of the Printed Word. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Christie’s. The Estelle Doheny Collection. 5 vols. New York: 1987–1989.
——— . Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. 2 vols. London: 1979–1980.
——— . The Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer. New York: Christie’s, 1994.
Churchill, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
Cim, Albert. “Les Victimes du livre.” La Revue, no. 5 (March 1, 1911), 660–83.
Clair, Colin. A History of European Printing. London, New York, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1976.
Clark, Ronald W. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1983.
Clements, William L., and George Parker Winship. The William L. Clements Library of Americana at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1923.
Cochrane, Eric.
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
The Collection of Henry H. Clifford. 3 vols. Austin, Tex.: Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, 1994. Includes the Zamorano 80.
The Collections and Programs of the American Antiquarian Society: A 175th Anniversary Guide. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1987. By the staff of the society.
Comparato, Frank E. Chronicles of Genius and Folly: R. Hoe & Company and the Printing Press as a Service to Democracy. Culver City, Calif.: Labyrinthos, 1979.
Complete Catalogue of the Library of John Quinn Sold by Auction in Five Parts. 1923–1924. Reprint (2 vols). New York: Lemma, 1969.
Connolly, Cyril. The Modern Movement: A Discussion of 100 Key Books from England, France and America, 1800–1950. New York: Atheneum, 1966.
Conway, William E., and Robert Stevenson. William Andrews Clark, Jr.: His Cultural Legacy. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985.
Cram, Ralph Adams. The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1927.
Crandall, Marjorie Lyle. Confederate Imprints: A Check List on the Collection of the Boston Athenæum. 2 vols. Boston: Boston Athenæum, 1955. With an introduction by Walter Muir Whitehill.
Curle, Richard. Collecting American First Editions, Its Pitfalls and Its Pleasures. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930.
Currie, Barton. Fishers of Books. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931.
Curwen, Henry. A History of Booksellers: The Old and the New. London: Chatto & Windus, 1873.
Dain, Phyllis. The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early Years. New York: New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations, 1972.
Danforth, Susan L., and Anne Hintenlang. “The ‘Great Subject,’ ‘La Grande Bibliothèque,’ and the John Carter Brown Library of Today.” Commentary and notes prepared for an exhibition mounted for the 39th annual meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, April 30, 1982. Typescript available at John Carter Brown Library.
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