Steven Moore Papers on David Markson, 1973-2010

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Series I: Correspondence--Markson to Moore, 1985-2010

This series includes correspondence sent to Steven Moore by David Markson. The correspondence is sorted into material before, during, and after the time that Moore was Markson's editor at Dalkey Archive Press



Box 1 1985-2010, 15 folders

Series II: Publicity Files, 1973-2007

Moore kept a publicity and clippings file on Markson even after their formal editorial relationship had ended.


Box 1 1973-2007

Series III: Books

Books written by Markson and owned by Moore. Many of these are proofs , galleys, or inscribed to Moore.



Box 2 Miss Doll, Go Home (Dell, 1965) inscribed to Steve Moore


Box 2 Epitaph for a Dead Beat (Dell, 1961) inscribed to Steve Moore


Box 2 Epitaph for a Tramp (Dell, 1959) with slide or cover image; inscribed to Steve Moore


Box 2 Epitaph for a Dead Beat and Epitaph for a Tramp (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007) bound galley


Box 2 Going Down (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970) 1E HC; inscribed to Steve Moore; with DM's annotations as copied from DM's copy by SM


Box 2 Springer's Progress (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977) uncorrected; inscribed to SM (years later)


Box 2 Springer's Progress (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977) 1E HC; inscribed to SM; with DM's annotations as copied from DM's copy by SM


Box 2 Reader's Block (Dalkey Archive, 1996) 1E PB


Box 2 Lesesperre (Solum, 1999) Norwegian translation of _____; inscribed to Steve Moore


Box 2 This is Not a Novel (Counterpoint, 2001) with Markson's annotation is margins (per SM)


Box 2 This is Not a Novel (Counterpoint, 2001) uncorrected page proofs


Box 2 The Last Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) bound galley


Box 2 The Ballad of Dingus Magee (Counterpint re-issue, 2008) with letter from Counterpoint


Box 2 Confrontation no. 33/34 Fall/Winter 1986-87 (literary magazine of Long Island University" in which Markson's story "Healthy Kate" appeared, 33/34