Melville Cane papers, 1901-1979

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Series IV: Books and Periodicals


Subseries IV.1: Books & Periodicals By Or With Contributions By Cane



Box 12 Maule, Harry E. & Melville Cane, eds. The Man from Main Street: A Sinclair Lewis Reader


Box 12 Paget, R.L., selected by Cap and Gown: Third Series of College Verse


Box 12 Miss Read Country Bunch


Box 12 Untermeyer, Louis, ed. Modern American Poetry


Box 12 Tanner, William M. & Frank J. Platt My English: Book 4


Box 12 Untermeyer, Louis Doorways to Poetry


Box 12 Untermeyer, Louis Poetry: Its Appreciation and Enjoyment



Box 13 Gillis, Adolph & William Rose Benet, eds. Poems for Modern Youth


Box 13 Gray, William S. & Lillian Gray Guidebook for Friends and Neighbors and More Friends and Neighbors


Box 13 Cook, Luella B., H.A. Miller, Jr. & Walter Loban Adventures in Appreciation


Box 13 Connolly, Francis The Types of Literature


Box 13 Dannt, Mary, selected by Adventures into Poetry: Secondary Book IV


Box 13 Doane, Pelagie, selected by Poems of Praise


Box 13 Morgan, Grace, ed. Poems for Boys and Girls: Book Two


Box 13 Dannt, Mary, selected by A Modern Treasury


Box 13 Literature Committee of the Association for Childhood Education, selected by Sung Under the Silver Umbrella



Box 14 Cane, Melville Tree in December


Box 14 Hall, Lawrence S. How Thinking is Written


Box 14 Grisenthwaite N., compiled by Pegasus: Three


Box 14 Rittenhouse, Charles B., ed. Your Poetry Book: Five


Box 14 Poetry Awards: 1951


Box 14 Eller, William, Betty Welch & Edward Gordon Introduction to Literature


Box 14 Reuben, Rebecca New Ashok Readers: Book II


Box 14 First, Wesley, ed. University on the Heights


Box 14 Sheldon, William, Nellie Lyons & Polly Ronalt The Reading of Poetry


Box 14 Rolfe, Franklin, William Davenport & Paul Bowerman The Modern Omnibus



Box 15 Wolfe, Don M. Language Arts and Life Patterns


Box 15 Van Doren, Mark, Arno Jewett, Margaret Early & Olga Achtenhagen Insights into Literature


Box 15 Wolfe, Don M., Ruth A. Firor & Thomas Donahue The Freshman and his World


Box 15 Witty, Paul A. & Alma Moore Freeland Silver Web


Box 15 Wolfe, Don M. & Ellen M. Geyer Enjoying English II


Box 15 Thompson, Blanche Jennings More Silver Pennies


Box 15 Cane, Melville January Garden


Box 15 Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, assembled by The Golden Year


Box 15 White, Elizabeth, Joan Wofford & Edward Gordon Understanding Literature


Box 15 Cane, Melville Behind Dark Spaces


Box 15 Clymer, Eleanor, collected by Arrow Book of Funny Poems



Box 16 Cargill, K.C. & K.A. Dykeman Creative English: Grade 5


Box 16 Bright, Frank F. & Ralph Potter To be an American


Box 16 The Poetry Society of America Anthology


Box 16 Arbuthnot, May Hill, compiled by Time for Poetry


Box 16 Applegate, Mauree Winged Writing


Box 16 Aked, Valerie & Margrethe Knudsen, selected by Quicksilver


Box 16 Altstetter, Mabel, Elizabeth Baker & Glenwood Clark The Language We Use: Book One


Box 16 Bretz, Ann Cory Profile of Poetry


Box 16 Braithwaite, William Stanley Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 Yearbook of American Poets



Box 17 Cane, Melville A Wider Arc


Box 17 Cane, Melville Poems: New and Selected


Box 17 Parker, T.H. and F.J. Teskey, compiled by It Could Happen to You


Box 17 Hallmark Cards, selected by the editors of Poetry for Pleasure


Box 17 Tomorrow, n.p., April 1942


Box 17 The Nation, n.p., 27 Feb 1929


Box 17 The Nation, n.p., 9 Jan 1929


Box 17 The New English Weekly, n.p., 19 May 1932


Box 17 Life, n.p., 18 June 1925


Box 17 Cameron, Jack and Emma Plattor The Leaf not the Tree


Box 17 Arbuthnot, May Hill and Shelton L. Root, Jr., compiled by Time for Poetry



Box 18 McInnes, John & Jean Wheatley Teacher's Guidebook for Hockey Cards and Hopscotch


Box 18 McFarland, Philip, Melinda Kavanagh, William Jamison & Morse Peckham Moments in Literature


Box 18 Wolfe, Don M. & Josie Lewis Enjoying English: 10


Box 18 Wolfe, Don M. & Josie Lewis Enjoying English: Teacher's Edition


Box 18 Jones, Daisy & Louis Cooper From Actors to Astronauts


Box 18 Lamb, P., G.O. Aubrey, W.J. Crocken & R.J. McDonald Growing Up with English: Book 4


Box 18 BBC Radio for Schools Stories and Rhymes, n.p., Autumn 1971


Box 18 Seaburg, Carl, ed. Great Occasions


Box 18 Larrick, Nancy, ed. Piping Down the Valleys Wild


Box 18 Clymer, Theodore & Virginia Jones Seven is Magic


Box 18 Shane, Harold, Florence Ferris, Mary York & Edward Keener Using Good English: 5



Box 19 Wolfe, Don M. A Study of Poetry


Box 19 Laughlin, James, ed. New Directions in Prose and Poetry: 12


Box 19 Gordon, Edward, Betty Welch & William Eller Introduction to Literature


Box 19 McFarland, Philip, Linda Konichek, Jeanne King, William Jamison & Morse Peckham Explorations in Literature


Box 19 Brewton, Sara and John, compiled by America Forever New


Box 19 Cane, Melville The First Firefly


Box 19 Burns, R.L. & R.F. Thomas The First Firefly


Box 19 Brash, J.G.S. & E.H. Winter Poems to Appreciate


Box 19 Untermeyer, Louis & Carter Davidson Poetry: Its Appreciation and Enjoyment



Box 20 Putnam's Monthly, n.p., March 1907


Box 20 Columbia Alumni News, n.p., 2 April 1920


Box 20 Poet, n.p., Jan 1973


Box 20 Clymer, Theodore, Leo Ruth, Peter Evanechko & Julia Higgs Awakenings


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Winter 1972-1973


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Spring 1970


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Autumn 1973


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Winter 1970-1971


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Summer 1972


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Winter 1973-1974


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Summer 1964


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Spring 1971


Box 20 American Scholar, n.p., Autumn 1957


Box 20 Field, Andrew, ed. Pages from Tarusa


Box 20 Cotton, Michael & Marian, eds. Soundings: A Poetry Workshop


Box 20 School Journal, n.p., Spring 1957



Box 21 Columbia Law Alumni Bulletin, n.p., Winter 1970


Box 21 Maule, Harr E. & Melville Cane, eds. A Sinclair Lewis Reader: The Man from Main Street


Box 21 The Forge: A Journal of Verse, n.p., Summer 1927


Box 21 Voices, n.p., Spring 1937


Box 21 Voices, n.p., Dec 1927


Box 21 Contemporary Verse, n.p., April 1926


Box 21 Gregory, George P. Environmental Concerns: The Nation


Box 21 The American Scholar, n.p., Spring 1974


Box 21 Voyages, n.p., Winter 1970


Box 21 Moore, Lilian, selected by Each in a Different Voice


Box 21 The Poetry Society of America Bulletin, n.p., April 1965


Box 21 Baron, Henry J., Bruce Hekman & Daniel Vander Ark, eds. Touchstones Around Us


Box 21 Allinson, Beverly & Alec Allinson, eds. Space Poems


Box 21 The University of Kansas City Review, n.p., Spring 1951


Box 21 Stewart, Paul R. The Prarie Schooner Story


Box 21 The American Bard, n.p., July, Aug, Sept 1957


Box 21 Phi Beta Kappa Bicentennial Banquet Program, n.p., 5 Dec 1976


Box 21 The New Mexico Quarterly Review, n.p., Spring 1961


Box 21 Foerster, Norman & Robert Falk, eds. American Poetry and Prose


Box 21 First, Wesley, ed. Columbia Remembered



Box 22 Columbia Grammar School Athletic Association Annual Field Day Program, n.p., 2 May 1895


Box 22 Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., from the public Annual Reports of In Art or Instruction


Box 22 The Poetry Society of America Bulletin, n.p., May 1971


Box 22 Nowell, Elizabeth, ed. The Letters of Thomas Wolfe


Box 22 De la Mora, Constancia In Place of Splendor


Box 22 Smith, Harrison, ed. From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis



Box 23 The New Yorker Book of Verse


Box 23 McCord, David, ed. What Cheer: An Anthology of American and British Humorous & Witty Verse


Box 23 Lask, Thomas, ed. The New York Times Book of Verse


Box 23 Sheldon, William D. Arrivals and Departures


Box 23 Westermark, Tory & Bryan Gooch, eds. Poetry is for People


Box 23 Perry, Haydn, ed. Poetry Panorama 2


Box 23 Davidson, Gustav, ed. In Fealty to Apollo: Poetry Society of America, 1910-1950


Box 23 Harper's Weekly, clippings from, n.p., 20 May 1905 & 17 June 1905


Box 23 Grace, W.J. & J.C. Grace The Art of Communicating Ideas


Box 23 Hepner, Arthur W. The Invitation to Learning Reader on Selected English Classics: Vol. 4, no. 1


Box 23 MacIver, R.M., ed. New Horizons in Creative Thinking: A Survey & Forecast


Box 23 Cane, Melville, John Farrar & Louise Townsend Nicholl, eds. The Golden Year: The Poetry Society of American Anthology (1910-1960)


Box 23 Angoff, Charles, Gustav Davidson, Hyacinthe Hill & A.M. Sullivan, eds. The Diamond Anthology



Box 24 Hepner, Arthur W., ed. The Invitation to Learning Reader on Selected English Classics: Volume 4, no. 1


Box 24 Braithwaite, william S. & Margaret H. Carpenter, eds. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958


Box 24 Booth, Jack, ed. One Potato, Two Potato...


Box 24 Stowe, Elaine & Grayce A. Ransom Drumbeats


Box 24 Lyseng, Mary, compiled by Explore, Express: Alberta School Broadcasts 1977


Box 24 The Saturday Review of Literature, n.p., 11 Nov 1939; 25 Dec 1943; 27 Nov 1948; 28 Jan 1950; 1 July 1950; 26 Aug 1950; 25 Nov 1950; 31 March 1951; 21 July 1951


Box 24 The Commonweal, n.p., 22 Dec 1939


Box 24 Columbia Alumni News, n.p., July 1948


Box 24 The Saturday Review, n.p., 23 Feb 1952; 26 Dec 1953; 3 July 1954; 22 Jan 1955; 10 Dec 1955; 7 April 1956; 27 July 1963


Box 24 American Bar Association Journal, n.p., May 1947


Box 24 Psychological Prespectives, n.p., Spring 1972


Box 24 Spirit, n.p., Spring 1971


Box 24 Tomorrow, n.p., July 1947


Box 24 The Nation, n.p., 11 Dec 1929


Box 24 Best Articles and Stories, n.p., Jan 1958


Box 24 Columbia Today, n.p., June 1977


Box 24 Evening Tribune-Herald, excerpt from, Waco, TX, 1 March 1973



Box 25 Plotz, Helen Untune the Sky: Poems of Music and Dance


Box 25 Cane, Melville All and Sundry: An Oblique Autobiography


Box 25 Cane, Melville Bullet-Hunting and Other New Poems


Box 25 Cane, Melville Poems: New and Selected


Box 25 Cane, Melville Eloquent April


Box 25 Cane, Melville A Wider Arc


Box 25 Cane, Melville Tree in December


Box 25 Cane, Melville To Build a Fire


Box 25 Cane, Melville So That it Flower


Box 25 Cane, Melville Making a Poem: An Inquiry into the Creative Process


Box 25 Cane, Melville The First Firefly


Box 25 Cane, Melville And Pastures New


Box 25 Cane, Melville Behind Dark Spaces


Box 25 Cane, Melville January Garden



Box 26 New Democracy, n.p., 15 April 1933


Box 26 Life, n.p., 17 Aug 1922; 28 Aug 1924


Box 26 The Freeman, n.p., 24 May 1922


Box 26 Leslie's Monthly Magazine, n.p., Dec 1904


Box 26 The Guardian, n.p., Oct 1925


Box 26 Contempo, n.p., 21 Feb 1933


Box 26 The Atlantic Monthly, n.p., Feb 1968


Box 26 The Commonwealth, n.p., 1 April 1931; 3 Feb 1932


Box 26 Concerning Poetry, n.p., Fall 1968


Box 26 Grade Teacher, n.p., Jan 1967


Box 26 The Literary Review, n.p., Winter 1959-1960


Box 26 The New Mexico Quarterly Review, n.p., Summer 1945


Box 26 The American Bard, n.p., July, Aug, Sept 1957


Box 26 Munsey's Magazine, n.p., April 1906


Box 26 Harper's Monthly, n.p., July 1902


Box 26 Modern Verse, n.p., April 1941


Box 26 Law Review Digest, n.p., Sept/Oct 1952


Box 26 The New Freeman, n.p., 25 March 1931


Box 26 The New English Weekly, n.p., 19 May 1932; 8 March 1934


Box 26 The Nation, n.p., 9 Jan 1929; 28 Oct 1944; 10 March 1945


Box 26 The New Yorker, n.p., 29 Sept 1934; 28 Sept 1935; 14 May 1938; 25 Jan 1941; 4 July 1942; 24 Dec 1949; 22 Sept 1951



Box 27 Prarie Schooner, n.p., Summer 1944; Fall 1944; Summer 1945; Fall 1948; Spring 1951; Summer 1957


Box 27 The American Scholar, n.p., Spring 1935; Winter 1952-1953; Spring 1954; Autumn 1954; Spring 1957; Summer 1958; Summer 1960; Summer 1961; Spring 1964; Spring 1965; Autumn 1965; Spring 1966; Winter 1966-1967; Summer 1967; Autumn 1967; Winter 1968-1969; Autumn 1972


Box 27 Reader's Digest, n.p., April 1943


Box 27 The Poetry Chapbook, n.p., Fall 1948



Box 28 Coates, Doreen Twelve Months in the Year


Box 28 The American Scholar, n.p., Spring 1963; Summer 1964; Winter 1968-1969; Winter 1969-1970; Spring 1970; Autumn 1970; Winter 1970-1971; Spring 1971; Autumn 1971


Box 28 The University Review--Kansas City, Kansas City, June 1965


Box 28 The American Pen, n.p., Summer 1971; Winter 1972


Box 28 The Yale Review, n.p., Winter 1934


Box 28 Columbia Forum, n.p., Winter 1970


Box 28 Judge, n.p., 16 Aug 1902


Box 28 Life, n.p., 17 Aug 1922


Box 28 Gilbert and Sullivan Quarterly, n.p., Fall 1936


Box 28 The American Scholar, excerpt from, n.p., Summer 1964


Box 28 Various clippings



Box 29 The Virginia Quarterly Review, n.p., July 1932; Jan 1933


Box 29 The Yale Review, n.p., Winter 1930


Box 29 The University of Kansas City Review, n.p., Winter 1951; Autumn 1952; March 1955; Winter 1955; Spring 1958; Summer 1958; Spring 1959; Spring 1961; Summer 1961; Spring 1962; Autumn 1962


Box 29 The University Review--Kansas City, n.p., Summer 1965; Autumn 1965; Dec 1966; Autumn 1967; Spring 1969


Box 29 Southwest Review, n.p., Spring 1964


Box 29 Spirit, n.p., Nov 1965; Jan 1966; July 1966; Sept 1966


Box 29 The Literary Review, n.p., Autumn 1957


Box 29 Autograph Collectors' Journal, n.p., April 1950


Box 29 The Bookman, n.p., Jan/Feb 1932; March 1932



Box 30 The Dial, n.p., March 1925; May 1928


Box 30 The American Scholar, n.p., Autumn 1973


Box 30 The Writer, n.p., July 1944


Box 30 Best Articles and Stories, n.p., Jan 1958; Oct 1959


Box 30 Tomorrow, n.p., April1 942; Feb 1943; July 1947


Box 30 Scribner's, n.p., March 1932


Box 30 The Saturday Review of Literature, n.p., 22 June 1940; 14 Dec 1940; 29 Aug 1942; 11 Nov 1943; 25 Dec 1943; 1 Jan 1944; 9 June 1945; 15 Dec 1945; 14 June 1947; 19 June 1948; 27 Nov 1948; 5 Feb 1949; 2 April 1949; 7 Jan 1950; 28 Jan 1950; 26 Aug 1950; 1 July 1950; 31 March 1951; 24 Nov 1951


Box 30 The Saturday Review, n.p., 23 Feb 1952; 22 Aug 1953; 26 Dec 1953; 16 Jan 1954; 3 July 1954; 22 Jan 1955; 29 Oct 1955; 10 Dec 1955; 7 April 1956; 27 July 1963; 29 Jan 1966



Box 31 The Morningside, n.p., 19 Jan 1899; 1897 (entire year)


Box 31 Columbia Literary Monthly, n.p., 1896-1897; 1897-1898; 1898-1899; 1899-1900


Subseries IV.2: Inscribed Books



Box 32 Sinclair, Upton, inscribed by A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Material from the Upton Sinclair Archives


Box 32 Kubie, Lawrence S. Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process


Box 32 Kubie, Lawrence S. The Riggs Story


Box 32 Nash, Ogden (not inscribed by author) Hard Lines


Box 32 Erskine, John The Shadowed Hour


Box 32 Liebman, Joshua Loth Peace of Mind


Box 32 Cousins, Norman Modern Man is Obsolete


Box 32 Beebe, Lucius Coctail Guide and Ladies Companion


Box 32 Worthington, Marjorie The Strange World of Willie Seabrook


Box 32 Sinclair, Mary Craig Southern Belle


Box 32 Hellman, George S. The True Stevenson


Box 32 Mumford, Lewis The Human Prospect



Box 33 Decker, Clarence R. The Victorian Conscience


Box 33 Decker, Clarence R. & Mary Bell Decker A Place of Light


Box 33 Barrie, J.M. (not inscribed by author) Echoes of the War


Box 33 Radin, Paul, ed. Crashing Thunder


Box 33 Eiseley, Loren Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma


Box 33 Palffy, Eleanor Largely Fiction


Box 33 Bowes, Major Verses I like


Box 33 Haberman, Helen Justice is a Woman


Box 33 Yuzon, Amado M. The Citizen's Poems


Box 33 Lanham, Edwin Thunder in the Earth



Box 34 Houdini Miracle Mongers and their Methods


Box 34 Eaton, Charles Edward Countermoves


Box 34 Robbins, Harold Where Love Has Gone


Box 34 Ross, David, ed. Poet's Gold


Box 34 McKenney, Margaret The Savory Wild Mushroom


Box 34 Meacham, Harry M. The Caged Panther


Box 34 Raphael, Alice The Things That Are


Box 34 Hayes, Albert M. & J. Laughlin, eds. (not inscribed by editors) A Wreath of Christmas Poems


Box 34 Erskine, John Sonata


Box 34 Jovanovich, William Now Barabbas


Box 34 Raphael, Alice Now Barabbas


Box 34 Kaufman, Helen L. Anvil Chorus


Box 34 Seabrook, William No Hiding Place


Box 34 Thompson, Dorothy Brown Subject to Change



Box 35 Box, Curtis (not inscribed by author) I Too, Nicodemus

[Review copy]


Box 35 Bode, Carl The Half-World of American Culture


Box 35 Campana, Dino (inscribed by Alice Raphael) Orphic Songs


Box 35 Haydn, Hiram, inscribed by The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats


Box 35 Graves, Robert (inscribed by Margaret Naumberg) Oxford Addresses on Poetry


Box 35 Goethe, trans. Alice Raphael Faust


Box 35 Goethe, trans. Alice Raphael Parables


Box 35 Haydn, Hiram, inscribed by Selected Essays of William Hazlitt


Box 35 Cohn, Alfred E. No Retreat from Reason


Box 35 Sullivan, A.M. Songs of the Musconetcong


Box 35 Haydn, Hiram (not inscribed by author) Words and Faces



Box 36 Mullins, Helene The Mirrored Walls


Box 36 Bulosan, Carlos America is in the Heart


Box 36 Kwock, C.H. and Vincent McHugh, trans. (inscribed by McHugh) Why I Live on the Mountain: Chinese Poems


Box 36 Bottoms, Mollie Ruth Apple Tree in the Fall


Box 36 Mercier, Vivian and David H. Greene, eds. 1000 Years of Irish Prose


Box 36 Joyce, James Avery Justice at Work


Box 36 Goethe, trans. Alice Raphael Faust


Box 36 Cohn, Alfred E. Medicine, Science, and Art


Box 36 Hollander, Barnett Slavery in America


Box 36 Hinkle, Beatrice (inscribed by Alfred Harcourt) The Re-Creating of the Individual


Box 36 Lewis, Arthur H. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree



Box 37 Rosser, Annetta Hamilton An Offering of Song


Box 37 Lyseng, Mary, compiled by (not inscribed) Explore, Express, Alberta School Broadcasts 1977


Box 37 Wollner, Gertrude Price Improvisation in Music


Box 37 Sloane, Eric (inscribed by Robert Mareux) I Remember America


Box 37 Thompson, Dorothy Once on Christmas


Box 37 Van Doren, Mark Mark Van Doren on Great Poems of Western Literature


Box 37 Lengyel, Cornel The Lookout's Letter


Box 37 Salomon, I.L. Unit and Universe


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. Stars and Atoms Have No Size


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. The Bottom of the Sea


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. Elbows of the Sea


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. Psalms of the Prodigal


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. Tim Murphy, Morgan Rifleman


Box 37 Sullivan, A.M. The Ballad of John Castner


Box 37 Lewis, Mary Red Drumming in the Sun


Box 37 Leach, Mary Stinton, compiled by (Inscribed by Poetry Society of Virginia) Lyric Virginia Today


Box 37 Eberhart, Richard, Joseph J. Keith, Gordden Link & Madeline Mason (inscribed by Gordden Link) Quartet from The Golden Year


Subseries IV.3: Books About Cane & Family



Box 38 Books about Cane and family



Box 39 Books about Cane and family