Call Number:

C0850

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

38 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Garland Publishing, Inc., Records, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1969-1991 (inclusive)

Creator:

Garland Publishing, Inc.

Form:

Business records -- 20th century., Catalogs, Publishers' -- 20th century., and Correspondence -- 20th century

Abstract:

This collection consists of correspondence of various Garland Publishing, Inc. staff members with authors, editors, and others, concerning permissions, copyrights, and production and editorial matters relating to their publication of facsimile and reprint editions of works by established writers. Also present are company catalogs and brochures arranged in two series, chronologically (1987-1996) and by subject.

Garland Publishing, Inc. is an American publisher of academic reference and science textbooks, founded in 1969 by Gavin Borden.

The collection consists of correspondence of various Garland Publishing, Inc., staff members with authors, editors, and others, concerning permissions, copyrights, and production and editorial matters relating to their publication of facsimile and reprint editions of works by established writers. Such subjects include James Joyce (company correspondence of Michael Groden, Danis Rose, A. Walton Litz), Le Corbusier (correspondence of Andre Wogenscky, Jerzy Soltan), William Faulkner (correspondence of Noel Polk, Joseph Blotner, M. McHaney), Virginia Woolf (correspondence of Quentin Bell), Walter Gropius (correspondence of Dr. W. Nerdinger), Louis I. Kahn (correspondence of Julia Converse), and F. Scott Fitzgerald (correspondence of Matthew Bruccoli, Alan Margolies, and others). Also included is correspondence of or related to Jacques Barzun. There are correspondence files of the late Gavin Borden, founder of the firm in 1969, who with his wife Libby Borden, now president, built the company into a significant publisher of academic reference works and science textbooks. Also present are company catalogs and brochures arranged in two series, chronologically (1987-1996) and by subject.