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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Publishers Weekly records, 1909-2007

35.28 linear feet
This collection contains of Publishers Weekly's reference files on publishing houses. Most of the records consist of clippings from Publishers Weekly, but the files also include clippings from other sources, as well as advertisements, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, commemoratives, correspondence, histories, legal records, obituaries, programs, prospectuses, and survey responses.
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Random House records, 1925-1999

702 linear feet

The collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.

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Curtis Brown Ltd. records, 1914-2018

1745 linear feet

The files of Curtis Brown, Ltd. literary agency include correspondence with authors, publishers, and other agents and deal with the editing and publishing of trade and textbooks, serial rights, reprints, dramatic rights, translations and foreign rights, promotion and copyright registration. For each author there are contracts, royalty statements, tax statements, and other financial materials. There is also a contract file, including cancellations and related correspondence, from 1914 to 1988. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Louis S. Auchincloss, W.H. Auden, Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, Ayn Rand, and Sloan Wilson.

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Ian and Betty Ballantine Books and Business Records, 1935-1994, bulk 1945-1973

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Ian and Betty Ballantine were book publishers who contributed to the growth of paperback book sales in the United States between the 1940s and the 1990s. The Ian and Betty Ballantine Books and Business Records include the Ballantines' materials related to Penguin Books USA, Bantam Books, Ballantine Books, and Peacock Books. Administrative documents cover the management of these presses as well as the editorial, sales, inventorying, and advertising processes. In addition, the collection contains the bulk of the editorial libraries of Penguin Books USA, Bantam Books, and Ballantine Books.
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Subseries I.2: Ballantine Books, 1952-1974

Subseries I.2: Ballantine Books, 1952-1974
Subseries I.2 contains files related to Ballantine Books or that were created during the time that

Subseries I.2 contains files related to Ballantine Books or that were created during the time that the Ballantines worked there, from 1952-1973. These include records from both Ian and Betty, and cover finances as well as inventory and orders. There are also contracts and correspondence with other publishing companies with whom they worked.

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Thomas Whiteside papers, 1839-1995, bulk 1952-1992

29 linear feet
Thomas Whiteside was an American journalist born in 1918. Whiteside wrote for The New Yorker for over 45 years. He covered such topics in his articles and books as cable television, the cigarette industry, the channel tunnel, chemical weapons (notably 2, 4, 5-T, a component of Agent Orange), Ralph Nader, Stig Wennerstrom, and yellow rain. It has been said that Whiteside's work on Agent Orange led directly to the congressional hearings which discussed the dangers of the substance. By the end of the hearings, the Surgeon General of the United States had announced restrictions on the use of the herbicide. The collection contains material related to the articles that Whiteside contributed to The New Yorker. The files include audiocassettes, book reviews, correspondence, drafts, galleys, notebooks and notes, research files, and typescripts. There is a small section of the collection that contains personal papers not tied directly to specific articles or books. The material ranges in date from the 1950s to the 1990s, spanning the time Whiteside worked at The New Yorker.
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Helene Hanff papers, 1931-1995

2 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, reviews, clippings, and other printed materials about Hanff, as well as books by and about her.

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Peter G. Stafford papers, 1960-1971

49 boxes

Papers of Stafford, reflecting a wide interest in psychedelic drugs, other drugs, and all aspects of the youth culture of the 1960s. Among the manuscript materials are drafts for chapters in his books, case histories, some correspondence, and materials showing the workings of the underground press. There are clippings, pamphlets, and books of both technical and popular interest.

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Larry Tye Papers, 2008-2013

30.6 linear feet
Research material for two of Larry Tye's books, Superman: The High Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero, which includes correspondence, subject files, and legal files, and for Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, which includes oral history files and subject files.
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Susan Orlean Papers, 1930s-2015, 2019

30.75 linear feet
This collection documents Orlean's career as a writer and a journalist, and also includes some personal materials and school papers. The collection includes address books, appointment books, audio recordings, clippings, computer files, contracts, correspondence, drafts, interviews, notes, notebooks, photographs, proofs, publications, research materials, school records, and video recordings.
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Jacques Barzun papers, 1900-1999

225 linear feet
The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).
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