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Melvin Korshak Letters
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Director of Shasta Publishing and bookseller of fantasy fiction.
Five letters and one statement between science fiction publishers Melvin Korshak, Raymond Palmer, and Hugo Gernsback. The letters primarily concern arrangements for the Science Fiction conventions in New York (1939) and Chicago (1952). Gernsback was one of the major early science fiction publishers in the United States and Raymond Palmer followed his lead.
Purchased from Serendipity, June 13, 1988.
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- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
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- January 2024
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