Helene Hanff papers, 1931-1995

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Series IV: Personal Book Collection



Box 5 Jane Austen, Persuasion, R & R Clarke Limited, 1944


Box 5 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Richard Clay and Company, 1949


Box 5 Catullus, The Poetry of Catullus, Orion press, 1967


Box 5 Niall Williams, Christine Breen, O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare, Soho Press, 1987


Box 5 Harry Golden, Enjoy! Enjoy!, World Publishing Company, 1954


Box 5 James Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978


Box 5 Frank Monaghan, This Was New York, The Nation's Capital In 1789, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1943


Box 5 Angela Thirkell, The Demon in the House, Moyer Bell, 1966


Box 5 Angela Thirkell, Growing Up, Moyer Bell, 1966


Box 5 John Donne, Donne's Devotions, Cambridge UP, 1923


Box 5 John Gross (ed), The Oxford Book of Essays, Oxford UP, 1991


Box 5 Alan Dent (ed), Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952


Box 5 Trudy Bliss (ed), Jane Welsh Carlyle: a new selection of her letters, Richard Clay and Company, 1950


Box 5 Marchette Chute, Shakespeare of London, EP Dutton & Company, 1949


Box 5 Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Poetries of Breath, Bloodaxe Books, 1988


Box 5  George Lyttelton, Rupert Hart-Davis, The Lyttleton/Hart-Davis Letters, W&J Mackay, 1978


Box 5 Daphne Du Maurier, Golden Lads, Doubleday, 1975

Lightly annotated


Box 5 Louis Untermeyer (ed), Modern American & Modern British Poetry, Harcourt, Brace, and Co, 1955


Box 5 Arthur Quillen Crouch, Green Bays: Verses and Parodies, Oxford University Press, 1930


Box 5 Greek Testament, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1904


Box 5 Leigh Hunt, Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Oxford University Press, 1923


Box 5 E. Montizambert, Unnoticed London, JM Dent; EP Dutton, 1925


Box 5 Robert Burns, Robert Burns: Wedgwood Selections, John Hamilton, n.d

Inscription to Helene


Box 5 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Martin Secker, 1923



Box 6 James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket, St Mark's & Marek, 1985


Box 6 The Royal Pavilion Brighton, n.p., n.d.


Box 6 Worth Gatewood, Fifty Years of Daily News in Pictures, doubleday, 1979


Box 6 This Fabulous Century 1950-60, Time-Life Books, 1971


Box 6 This Fabulous Century 1930-40, Time-Life Books, 1969


Box 6 This Fabulous Century 1940-50, Time-Life Books, 1969


Box 6 Tower of London, Newsweek Book, 1971


Box 6 Old New York in Early Photographs, Dover Books, 1973


Box 6 People Mostly: New York in Photographs, 1900-1950, Amarylis Press, 1983


Box 6 Francis Bacon, Essays and New Atlantis, Walter J. Black, 1942


Box 6 John Aubrey, Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings, The Cresset Press, 1949


Box 6 Sir Paul Harvey, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, 1967


Box 6 James Rusell Lowell, Latest Literary Essays and Addresses of James Russell Lowell, Houghton Mifflin and Co, 1892


Box 6 Voltaire, Candide, Modern Library, n.d



Box 7 Concise Dictionary of American History, Charles Scribner's, 1961


Box 7 Stuart D. Ludlum, Exploring Shakespeare Country 100 years ago, Thames and Hudson, 1985


Box 7 Frederick Busby, The History of Winchester Cathedral, Paul Cave Publications, n.d.


Box 7 Lewis Miller, Guide to Central Park, Pamphlet/magazine, n.d.


Box 7 Henry Moscow, The Street Book, Hagstrom Company, 1978


Box 7 Barnaby Conrad III, The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic, Chronicle Books, n.d.


Box 7 H. W. (Henry Watson),  Fowler; F. G. (Francis George)  Fowler, The King's English, Oxford, 1970


Box 7 The Oxford Book of English Verse, Oxford, 1904

Lightly annotated


Box 7 Modern English Usage, Oxford, 1950


Box 7 John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, Modern Library, 1946


Box 7 Mark DeWolfe Howe (ed), Holmes-Laski Letters, 2 vols., Harvard UP, 1951


Box 7 Bernard Shaw, Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1948

Annotated


Box 7 Bernard Shaw, Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1948


Box 7 D. Felicitas Corrigan, The Nun, the Infidel and The Superman, U of Chicago P, 1985


Box 7 Norman Lebrecht, Hush, Handel's in a Passion!, Andre Deutsh, 1985


Box 7 Walter Savage Landor, Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor; Second Volume, Chapman & Hall, 1876


Box 7 Charles E. Bennett, New Latin Grammar, Allyn and Bacon, 1918


Box 7 Alfred Lord Tennyson, Complete Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II, Frederick A. Stokes, 1891



Box 8 Liza Donnelly, Husbands and Wives, Ballantine Books, 1995

** postcards + notes separated


Box 8 Aristotle, On Man and the Universe, Classics Club


Box 8 Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: Virginia Woolf, Hogarth, 1957

Annotated


Box 8 Bernard Shaw, Dramatic Opinions & Essays With an Apology by Bernard Shaw, Brentano's, 1907

Annotated


Box 8 Bryan & Crane, The English Familiar Essay, The Antheum Press, 1916


Box 8 John Milton, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton, Modern Library, n.d.


Box 8 A Greek Primer, America Book Company, 1931


Box 8 A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, Dutton & Co, n.d.


Box 8 A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, Dutton & Co, 1961


Box 8 A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six, Dutton & Co, 1961


Box 8 Horace Walpole, Selected Letters of Horace Walpole, Yale UP, 1973


Box 8 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Henry T. Coates, 1898

Annotated


Box 8 A Concise Dictionary to the Vulgate New Testament, Bagster and Sons Ltd, 1934


Box 8 Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt As Poet And Essayist, Chandos Classis, 1891


Box 8 John Donne, Poems of Love, Folio Society, 1958


Box 8 Vivian De Sola Pinto, Poetry of the Restoration, Heinemann educational books, 1970


Box 8 Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosalie, Hogarth, 1959


Box 8 Book of Common Prayer, Church Pension Fund, 1945


Box 8 Jonathan Swift, A Tale of the Tub and the Battle of the Books, Hamish Hamilton, 1948


Box 8 Francis T Palgrave, The Treausry of the Sacred Song, Oxford, 1906


Box 8 C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Macmillan, 1975

Annotated


Box 8 Thomas Carlyle, Essays on Burns, DC Heath, 1896


Box 8 Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Dent and Sons, 1951


Box 8 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Shakespeare's Workmanship, Cambridge UP, 1947


Box 8 Modern English Essays, Vol. 5, JM Dent and Sons, 1936


Box 8 Sue Grafton, G is for Gumshoe, Fawcett, 1990


Box 8 Anne Perry, Traitors Gate, Fawcett, 1995


Box 8 The Anthology of Light Verse, Modern Library, 1935


Box 8 James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Everyman's Library, 1906


Box 8 June Biermann, The Diabetic's Total Health Book, Pocket Books, 1980


Box 8 Anthony Trollope, The Warden, Oxford, 1989


Box 8 John Julias Norwich, A Christmas Cracker,


Box 8 Adelle Davis, Eat Right to Keep Fit, Signet Books, 1970


Box 8 Jack Brodsky and Nathan Weiss, The Cleopatra Papers, Simon and Schuster, 1963

Lightly annotated


Box 8 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, George Allen & Unwin, 1954

Cartoon taped inside front cover


Box 8 William Hazlitt, Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, Nonesuch Press; Random House, 1948



Box 9 Donald Veall (ed.), Literary Walks of Britain, Select Editions, 1992


Box 9 Somerset: A portrait in color, Dovecote Press, 1991

Inscribed


Box 9 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese,, 1948


Box 9 The New Columbia Encyclopedia, Columbia UP, 1975


Box 9 World Atlas, Harrod


Box 9 Philip Clucas, Britain An Aerial Closeup,



Box 10 New Testament and Psalms,


Box 10 Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad ,, 1992


Box 10 Robert Browning, Men and Women, JM Dent and Sons, n.d.


Box 10 The School of Manners,, faximile of 1701


Box 10 Helen Exley (ed.), Book of Quotations,, 1991


Box 10 Eighteenth Century Essays, D Appleton, 1884


Box 10 The Temple Classics, JM Dent and Sons, 1899


Box 10 Robert Barnard, Corpse in a Gilded Cage, Dell, 1984


Box 10 Arthur Henry Bullen, Elizabethan Poets,

Fragile


Box 10 Handy English-Spanish and Spanish-English Dictionary,


Box 10 Modern English Essays 1820-1920, JM Dent and Sons, 1940


Box 10 W.S. Gilbert, The Savoy Operas, Macmillan, 1957


Box 10 A 17th Century Anthology,, n.d.

Fragile


Box 10 Poetical Works of Tennyson, Nelson and Sons, 1926


Box 10 W. Winter, Shadows of the Stage, Macmillan, 1892

Annotated


Box 10 William Shakespeare, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Cotman, n.d.


Box 10 William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Collected works Vol 1-10, David McKay, n.d.


Box 10 John Henry Newman, University Subjects, Houghton Mifflin, 1913


Box 10 Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Walter Scott Publishing Company, n.d.

Heavily annotated with note tucked inside


Box 10 Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle Essay on Burns, Norwood Press, 1895


Box 10 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch , The Splendid Spur, Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d.

Note tucked inside


Box 10 Virgil, The Eclogues and The Georgics, Clarendon Press, 1928


Box 10 Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, Henry Altemus, n.d.


Box 10 John Evelyn, Evelyn's Diary, Scribner's, n.d.


Box 10 Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang, Bantam, 1971


Box 10 Judith Viorst, People & Other Aggravations, Signet, 1971


Box 10 P.D. James, A Mind to Murder, Warner Books, 1982


Box 10 Minette Walters, The Dark Room,, 1996


Box 10 Dorothy Eagle; Hilary Carnell, The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles, Clarendon Press, 1977


Box 10 Patrick O'Connor, Don't Look Back: A Memoir, Moyer Bell, 1933


Box 10 W. Graham Robertson, Time Was, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1945


Box 10 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Q, Cambridge University Press, 1948

Inscription, sent to Helen Hanff as gift


Box 10 Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great, Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1959


Box 10 T.A. Moxon (ed), Poetics of Aristotle; On Style by Demetrius, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1934


Box 10 Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: Second Series, Hogarth Press, 1959


Box 10 Francis Bacon, Bacon's Essays and Colors of Good and Evil, Macmillan, 1903



Box 11 John Tebbel, A Certain Club: One Hundred Years of The Players, Wieser & Wieser, 1989


Box 11 Carl Sandburg, Rainbows are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982

Copy signed by editor Lee Bennett Hopkins


Box 11 Izaac Watson, The Compleat Angler or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Peter Pauper Press, n.d.

Has more than one copy of this book (different editions); contains inscription to Hanff by the son of the publishers


Box 11 James Thurber, The 13 Clocks, Donald I. Fine, 1957


Box 11 Izaac Watson, The Compleat Angler or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, J.M. Dent, 1896


Box 11 Henry James, New York Revisited, Frankin Square Press, 1994

Lightly annotated


Box 11 Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, New Directions, 1954


Box 11 James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, Beacon Press, 1955

Annotated


Box 11 Dear Miss Heber: An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, Constable, 1936

Annotated


Box 11 Dorothy Sayers, Unpopular Opinions, Victor Gollancz, 1946

Annotated, and contains envelope with a message to Hanff


Box 11 Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Coward-McCann; Macdonald, 1950

Photographs and postcards inside; Annotated


Box 11 On the Art of Writing, Putnam's Sons; University Press, 1916

Contains correspondence with Hanff, newspaper clippings about the author, Quiller-Couch and Hanff's writings on Quiller-Couch; One of Hanff's books, Q's Legacy, is about him


Box 11 The Book-Lovers' Anthology, Oxford University Press, 1911

Annotated; has the sticker of "Marks & Co." book shop that Hanff had a historical relationship with and wrote about in 84 Charing Cross


Box 11 John Donne, John Donne: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, Nonesuch Press; Random House, 1949

Annotated; postcard of Donne inside


Box 11 Robert Frost, Selected Poems, William Heinemann; Henry Holt, 1923


Box 11 David Piper, The Companion Guide To London, Collins, 1964

Inscription to Hanff


Box 11 Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie, Houghton Mifflin, 1949

Annotated


Box 11 Edith M. Meyer, Enjoying Food on a Diabetic Diet, Dolphin Books (Doubleday), 1974

Lightly annotated; Hanff had diabetes and died from diabetes


Box 11 Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harper-Weaver And Other Poems, Harpers & Brothers, 1923


Box 11 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Avalon Press Ltd., 1949


Box 11 Shakespeare; Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Heineman; Doubleday, 1911


Box 11 R.H. Carr, Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius in North's Translations, Clarendon Press, 1906


Box 11 Clark Gesner; Charles M. Schulz, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", Fawett Crest (Random House), 1967


Box 11 Roget's International Thesaurus, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956



Box 12 The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry: A Parody Anthology, Apple-Wood Books, 1981


Box 12 Michael Malone, Handling Sin: A Novel, Little, Brown & Co, 1986

Note inside: "Return to Helene Hanff"


Box 12 Jon Dos Pasos, The Men Who Made the Nation, Doubleday, 1957

Annotated


Box 12 Brian Martin, John Henry Newman: His Life and Work, Chatto & Windus, 1982

Lightly annotated; book review clippings tucked inside


Box 12 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch , Studies in Literature (First Series), Putnam's Sons; University Press, 1926

Typewritten document inside; One of Hanff's books, Q's Legacy, is about him


Box 12 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch , Studies in Literature (Second Series), Putnam's Sons; University Press, 1922

One of Hanff's books, Q's Legacy, is about him


Box 12 Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, Reinhardt & Evans, 1949

Annotated


Box 12 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch , Charles Dickens and Other Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 1925


Box 12 John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, Little. Brown & Co, 1968


Box 12 Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's, Harper & Row, 1972

Annotated


Box 12 Denys Chevalier, Klee, Crown Publishers, 1979


Box 12 The Holy Bible: Vols 9 and 10, Grolier Society, 1908



Box 13 J.S. Bach, Bach's Passion, Novello and Company, 1938


Box 13 E. Prout (ed), Handel's Messiah, Novello and Company, 1902


Box 13 Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Bell Publishing, n.d.


Box 13 Artemis Cooper (ed), The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, Ticknor & Fields, 1992


Box 13 Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon, 6 volumes, Stanley Paul & Co, 1915, 1918

Annotated


Box 13 Houston Peterson (ed), The Book of Sonnet Sequences, Longmans, Green & Co, 1930

Inscription


Box 13 Clement Wood, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet's Craft Book, Garden City Books, 1936


Box 13 James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small, St. Martin's Press, 1972


Box 13 Derek Humphrey, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, The Hemlock Society, 1991


Box 13 Harry Golden, Only in America, World Publishing Company, 1958

Lightly annotated


Box 13 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harpers & Brothers, 1952

Lightly annotated


Box 13 Edward Robb Ellis, A Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression, Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1970


Box 13 Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1884–1933, Penguin, 1992


Box 13 John Henry Newman, A Newman Synthesis, Sheed and Ward, 1945

Lightly annotated



Box 14 Arona Khan, Wrap It Up, Ward Lock, 1987


Box 14 Ivor Brown, Jane Austen and Her World, Henry Z. Walck, 1966


Box 14 Nancy Mitford (ed), The Sun King: Louis XVI at Versailles, Harper & Row, 1966


Box 14 Ogden Nash, I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash, Little, Brown & Co, 1975

Annotated


Box 14 Three on the Tower: The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams, William Morrow & Co, 1975


Box 14 Jed Harris, A Dance on the High Wire: Recollections of a Time and a Temperament, Crown Publishers, 1979


Box 14 Herbert J. C. Grierson (ed), The Poems of John Donne (Vol. I), Clarendon Press, 1912

Inscription


Box 14 Herbert J. C. Grierson (ed), The Poems of John Donne (Vol. II), Clarendon Press, 1912


Box 14 Daphne du Maurier, Growing Pains: The Shaping of a Writer, Victor Gollancz, 1977


Box 14 Theodore Bernstein, Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary, Times Books, 1977


Box 14 Kay Evans, The Woman's Hour Book, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981

Inscription; Hanff was a regular contributor to the Woman's Hour on BBC


Box 14 Elizabeth Longford (ed), Poets' Corner, Chapmans, 1992


Box 14 Norman Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes, Andre Deutsch, 1985

Light annotations


Box 14 Oliver Daniel, Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1982

Inscription by author


Box 14 Graham Payn (ed), The Noël Coward Diaries, Little, Brown & Co, 1982

Annotated


Box 14 Sam Gross, Cats by Gross, Ballantine Books, 1995



Box 15 Daniel Karlin (editor), Robert & Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence, Oxford University Press, 1990


Box 15 Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O' Brien), The Best of Myles, Picador, 1977


Box 15 Richard Boleslavsky, Acting, Theatre Arts Books, 1949

Annotated


Box 15 Luis d'Antin Van Rooten, Mots d'heures : Gousses, rames, Grossman Publishers, 1967


Box 15 Lewis Carroll, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958


Box 15 Helen Duprey Bullock, My Head and My Heart, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1945

Annotated


Box 15 Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1941


Box 15 Edmund Gosse, Modern English Literature, D. Appleton and Company, 1928


Box 15 F. T. Palgrave, The Golden Treasury, Collins, n.d.

Light Annotations


Box 15 E. B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, TC & EC Jack, n.d.


Box 15 Judith Viorst, It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Liffe, World Publishing Company, 1968


Box 15 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948


Box 15 Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time and An Essay on Style, Macmillan, 1900


Box 15 Richard Ellman (edtor), The New Oxford Book of American Verse, Oxford University Press, 1976

Annotated; printed documents tucked inside book


Box 15 E. M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady, Macmillan and Co, 1942

Annotated


Box 15 William Bray, Evelyn's Diary, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, n.d.


Box 15 Charles Lane Hansen (ed), Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, Ginn & Company, 1903

Handwritten notes at end of the book


Box 15 Nouum Testamentum Latine,, n.d.

Fragile


Box 15 John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907


Box 15 Clifford Musgrave, The Pictorial Story of Brighton: Past and Present, Pitkin, n.d.


Box 15 RWM Wright and G Lester, The City of Bath: The Roman City of Aquae Sulis, Pitkin, 1973


Box 15 Edna St. Vincent Millay, The King's Henchmen, Harper & Brotthers, 1927


Box 15 Nikolai M. Gorchakov, Stanislavsky Directs, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1954

Annotated


Box 15 Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vols. I-III), G. Bell and Sons, 1926


Box 15 Samiel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vols. IV-VI), G. Bell and Sons, 1926


Box 15 Jane Austen, Emma, Macdonald & Co., 1950

Lightly annotated


Box 15 Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 2 vols., Modern Library, [1977]


Box 15 Frederick Brittain, Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Q, Cambridge University Press, 1948


Box 15 Francis Coleman Rosenberger (ed), Jefferson Reader: A Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1953

Lightly annotated; postcard inside


Box 15 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Poet As Citizen & Other Papers, Macmillan; Cambridge University Press, 1935

Lightly annotated


Box 15 Charles Warren, Jacobin and Junto or Early American Politics As Viewed in the Diary of Dr. Nathaniel Ames (1758–1822), Harvard University Press, 1931


Box 15 Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Literary Classics Inc., 1945



Box 16 Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Niblung, William. Heinemann; Doubleday Pace & Co., 1911


Box 16 John Donne, Love Poems of John Donne, Nonesuch Press, 1923

Contains note


Box 16 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Studies in Literature (Third Series), G. P. Putnam's Sons; University Press, 1930

Contains a note from Quiller-Couch and a photo of his memorial, annotated


Box 16 Poetry for Pleasure: The Hallmark Book for Poetry, Doubleday and Company, 1960

Contains partial letter and a clipping from another text


Box 16 Charles Duff, The Lost Summer, Heinemann; Nick Hern Books, 1995

Inscription


Box 16 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading, Cambridge University Press, 1920

Annotated; contains book review of Q; contains photographs of Quiller-Couch's memoria; contains letter from a politician to Hanff


Box 16 Donald Hall, Remembering Poets, Harper & Row, 1978

Annotated


Box 16 James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, Knopf, 1960

Annotated; newspaper clipping inside


Box 16 John Dos Passos, The Head and the Heart of Thomas Jefferson, Doubleday and Company, 1954

Annotated; postcard inside


Box 16 Dictioinary of American Slang, Crowell, 1960


Box 16 Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, Theatre Arts, 1944

Annotated


Box 16 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism, Cambridge University Press, 1925


Box 16 Francis Wastson, The Year of the Wombat, Harper & Row, 1974

Annotated


Box 16 John Milton, Selected Prose Writings, New Amsterdam Book Co., 1904


Box 16 Modern English Essays: Volume Three, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1930

Light annotations; includes essay by Quiller-Couch


Box 16 Woody Allen, Getting Even, Vintage Books, 1978


Box 16 A.T. Quiller-Couch, The Pilgrims' Way, Seeley & Co Limited, 1906


Box 16 Aaron Copeland, What to Listen for in Music, Signet, 1967


Box 16 John Milton, Minor Poems, Allyn and Bacon, 1901

Note inside outlining Milton's life; writes about how she was introduced to Milton through Q in The Duchess of Bloomsburg Street


Box 16 The Philosophy of Plato, Simon & Schuster, 1928


Box 16 Barbara Kraus, Calories and Carbohydrates, The New American Library, 1979



Box 17 Richard Brown and Stanley Brett, The London Bookshop, Private.Libraries Association, 1977

Contains inscription; only 700 copies of the book were for sale


Box 17 Hamilton's Excursions across the Atlantic, An old travel pamphlet of some sort, n.d.


Box 17 Greater New York Album, Rand, McNally & Co, 1895

Card and note inside


Box 17 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Grosset & Dunlap, 1971

Inscription; Annotated


Box 17 Charles Lamb, Everybody's Lamb, G. Bell and Sons, 1933

Inscription


Box 17 E.V. Cunningham, The Wabash Factor, Delacorte Press, 1986

Photograph tucked inside


Box 17 Izaak Walton, The lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson,, 1840

Light annotations


Box 17 Social Register New York 1952, Social Register Association, 1951


Box 17 Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Funk & Wagnalls Co, n.d.


Box 17 Love & Other Subjects, Lonsdale Press, 1995

Limited edition privately printed for Peter Gorbl contains two inscriptions to Hanff including one by Gorb


Box 17 Harold Pinter, Poems and Prose: 1949-1977, Grove Press, 1978

Photographs tucked inside


Box 17 Ephemera concerning Arthur Quiller-Couch: an evening program for an annual dinner,, n.d.


Box 17 Memories & Opinions: An Unfinished Autobiography by Q, Cambridge University Press; Macmillan, 1945


Box 17 The Poems of Gray & Collins, George Newnes; Charles Scribner, 1905


Box 17 R Ellis Roberts, Reading for Pleasure and Other Essays, Methuen & Co., 1928

Inscription written to Q


Box 17 Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs, The Century Co., 1912

Inscription; a taped note; very lightly annotated


Box 17 A Shakespearean Alphabet, Stratford Publication, 1985

Inscription


Box 17 Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, Simon & Schuster, 1973

Inscription


Box 17 George Hamlin Fitch, Comfort Found in Good Old Books, Paul Elder and Co, 1911

Inscription


Box 17 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Collins, 1966

Annotated, fan letter kept with book


Box 17 A Common Reader (Catalog No. 61),, 1992

Letter to Hanff included


Box 17 A Common Reader (Catalog No. 69),, 1992

Annotated, fan letter kept with book


Box 17 A Common Reader (Catalog No. 70),, 1992

Annotation on cover page


Box 17 A Common Reader (Catalog No. 112),, 1995


Box 17 New York Bound Bookshop (Catalog 16),, 1992

Annotated


Box 17 John Donne, Donne's Sermons, Clarendon Press, 1942

A note is inside


Box 17 Adelle Davis, Let's Get Well, Signet, 1972


Box 17 Robert Browning, Poems, Walter J. Black, Inc., 1932


Box 17 Modern English Essays: Volume Four, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1922


Box 17 Mathew Arnold, Selections from the Prose Works of Mathew Arnold, Houghton Mifflin, 1913


Box 17 Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Signet, 1963


Box 17 Sue Crafton, "I" is for Innocent, Ballantine Books, 1992


Box 17 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bantam Classics, 1981


Box 17 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Collier Books, 1987


Box 17 Gene Schermerhorn, Letters to Phil: Memories of a New York Boyhood, 1848–1856, New York Bound, 1982

Inscribed


Box 17 The American National Red Cross, Standard First Aid & Personal Safety, Doubleday, 1977


Box 17 B.J. Chute, Greenwillow, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1956


Box 17 The Standard Book of British and American Verse, Garden City Publishing Company, 1932


Box 17 Ogden Nash, A Penny Saved Is Impossible, Andre Deutsch Ltd., 1982


Box 17 Plato, Five Great Dialogues, Walter J. Black, Inc., 1942



Box 18 Modern English Essays, J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929


Box 18 Julian Barnes, Letters from London, Picador, 1995


Box 18 Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Methuen and Co., 1958

Annotated


Box 18 High Whitemore, The Best of Friends, Amber Lane Press, 1988


Box 18 Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vols. VII-VIII), G. Bell and Sons, 1926


Box 18 Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page, Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson, Summit Books, 1988

Lightly annotated


Box 18 Sue Grafton, "K" is for Killer, Henry Holt & Co, 1994

Note inside


Box 18 Frank Morley, Literary Britain, Harper & Row, 1980


Box 18 Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1965

Annotated


Box 18 Jerome Toobin, Agitato: A Trek through the Musical Jungle, Viking Press, 1975

Annotated


Box 18 Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him..., Ballantine Books, 1995


Box 18 C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian, Macmillan, 1977

A newspaper clipping is taped inside the book; Annotated


Box 18 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Avalon Press, 1948

Annotated


Box 18 The Upper West Side Black Book (1990-91 Edition),, 1990


Box 18 Nanette Emanuel, Creature Comforts,, n.d.

Author signed copy


Box 18 Peter Sahaffer, Lettice and Lovage, Harper & Row, 1990


Box 18 Edith Wharton, The Children, Collier Books, n.d.


Box 18 Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment, Vintage Books, 1977

Annotated


Box 18 Jane Welsh Carlyle, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, John Lane, 1903

Light annotations


Box 18 Elsdon C. Smith, Dictionary of American Family Names, Harper & Brothers, 1956

Some annotations in the introduction


Box 18 Max Eastman, Anthology for the Enjoyment of Poetry, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939


Box 18 Noel Coward, Play Parade, Garden City Publishing Company, 1933



Box 19 The Romance of Oxford, Chris Andrews Photographic Art, 1984


Box 19 V.S. Pritchett, Lasting Impressions, Random House, 1990


Box 19 James Lipton, An Exaltation of Larks, Grossman Publishers, 1968


Box 19 Marie Vassiltchikov, Berlin Diaries, Knopf, 1987


Box 19 Cassell's French-English English-French Dictionary, Funk & Wagnalls Co, [1951]


Box 19 A. L. Rowse, Quiller Couch: A Portrait of 'Q', Methuen, 1988

Light annotations


Box 19 A. L. Rowse, The English Spirit, Macmillan, 1966

Light annotations


Box 19 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (editor), The Oxford Book of English Prose, Clarendon Press, 1945

Annotated


Box 19 Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1964

Annotated


Box 19 Ellen Maury Slayden, Washington Wife, Harper & Row, 1963

Annotated


Box 19 The New Oxford Book of English Verse, Oxford University Press, 1989

Annotated; the editor of the earlier version of this book was Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; also a newspaper clipping connected to a poem in the book is kept inside the book



Box 20 Wolf Suschitzky, Charing Cross Road in the Thirties, Dirk Nishen Publishing, 1989


Box 20 Susan Allen Toth, England As You Like It: An Independent Traveler's Companion , Ballantine Books, 1995


Box 20 Jean Freeman, Jane Austen in Bath, Biddles, Limited, 1983


Box 20 Walt Whitman, Whitman: Completed Poetry and Prose, Library of America, 1982


Box 20 A.E. Housman, More Poems, Knopf, 1936


Box 20 The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-Two Volumes (Sketches by Boz, Vol. II); Gadshill Edition, Chapman & Hall Ld; Scribner's, 1898

Hanff's signature inside the cover


Box 20 Graham Robertson, Letters from Graham Robertson, Hamish Hamilton, 1953


Box 20 Richard R. Lingemon, Don't you know there's a war on?, GP Putnam & Sons, 1970


Box 20 Oscar F. Firkins, Two Passengers for Chelsea And Other Plays, Longmans, Green and Co, 1928


Box 20 Coral Lansbury, Sweet Alice, E.P. Dutton, 1986


Box 20 Roy Plomley, Plomley's Pick of Desert Island Discs, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1982


Box 20 Arthur Bryant, The Lion and the Unicorn: A Historian's Testament, Doubleday, 1970


Box 20 A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Hartsdale House, Inc, 1932


Box 20 George Holbert Tucker, Jane Austen the Woman: Some Biographical Insights, St. Martin's Press, 1994


Box 20 Charles Dickens, The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-Two Volumes (Sketches by Boz, Vol. I); Gadshill Edition, Chapman & Hall Ld. Scribner's, 1898

Hanff's signature inside the cover


Box 20 Jerry Della Femina and Charles Sopkin, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, Simon and Schuster, 1970


Box 20 Roy Strong and Julia Trevelyan Oman, Elizabeth R, Secker & Warburg, 1971


Box 20 Jeff Abbott, The Only Good Yankee, Ballantine Books, 1995


Box 20 James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (Volume I), JM Dent; EP Dutton, 1909


Box 20 Samuel Johnson, Johnson on Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, 1940


Box 20 William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, John Templeman, 1840


Box 20 John Donne, The Complete Poems of John Donne, Packard and Co, 1942


Box 20 Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings, Modern Library, 1937


Box 20 Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Jefferson, Modern Library, 1944


Box 20 Montaigne, Selected Essays of Montaigne, Walter J. Black Inc., 1943


Box 20 Oscar Wilde, The Plays of Oscar Wilde, Modern Library, n.d.


Box 20 Clemence Dane; Richard Addinsell, L'Aiglon: The Text of a Free Adaptation in Words and Music, Doubleday, 1934


Box 20 Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905


Box 20 Afferbeck Lauder, Fraffly Well Spoken: How to Speak the Language of London's West end, Wolfe Publishing, 1968



Box 21 The Holy Bible: Vols 1-4, 6-8, 11-14, Grolier Society, 1908



Box 22 Correspondence, documents, photos and printed materials found in books or in personal library boxes


Box 22 Handel's Messiah, recorded April 17, 1992, on two commercial cassette tapes