Box 75
Richard Aldington Cyrano de Bergerac: Voyages to the Moon and the Sun . London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.,, undated
Box 75
Shillaber Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun,, 1854
(Stamped "Mercantile Library New York")
Box 75
Edmond Rostand (translator unknown)Cyrano de Bergerac . London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson by Miranda Beeson, 1981)
Box 75
Edmund Lester Pearson Studies in Murder . Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1924
Box 75
Edmond Rostand (trans. Brian Hooker) Cyrano de Bergerac. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1925
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980)
Box 75
Edmond Rostand (trans. Helen B. Dole) Cyrano de Bergerac. New York: Illustrated Editions Co., 1931
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980)
Box 75
Edmond Rostand (trans. Humbert Wolfe) Cyrano de Bergerac. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1941
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980)
Box 75
William Saroyan The Time of Your Life. New York: Samuel French, 1941
(Inscribed by Miranda Beeson, 1974 clipping inserted)
Box 76
William Saroyan Razzle-Dazzle. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1942
(First edition; inscribed to Jack Beeson from William Saroyan)
Box 76
Paul Goodman The Facts of Life. New York: The Vanguard Press,, 1945
Box 76
Isabel Leighton, ed. The Aspirin Age. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949
Box 76
Edmond Rostand (translator Louis Untermeyer) Cyrano de Bergerac. New York: The Heritage Press,, 1954
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980 notes inserted)
Box 76
Eric Bentley, ed. From the American Drama . Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956
(Includes Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines by Clyde Fitch and The Man with the Heart in the Highlands by William Saroyan; annotated)
Box 76
Lately Thomas The Vanishing Evangelist: The Aimee Semple McPherson Kidnaping Affair. New York: The Viking Press,, 1959
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1961 notes and clippings inserted)
Box 76
Edward D. Radin Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961
Box 76
Paul Kozelka, ed. Fifteen American One-Act Plays. New York: Washington Square Press, 1961
(Includes Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher; inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1994 annotated)
Box 76
Marjorie Wescott Barrows Drama I, 1962
(Stamped "Christopher Beeson")
Box 76
Bernard Gavoty Great Concert Artists: Claudio Arrau. Geneva: Rene Kister, 1962
Box 76
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories. New York: New American Library, 1963
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson from Sheldon Harnick, 1976)
Box 76
Victoria Lincoln A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson from The Fiskes, 1967)
Box 76
Peter Viereck New and Selected Poems, 1932-1967. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1967
(Annotated throughout; clippings, facsimiles, and notes inserted)
Box 77
Agnes de Mille Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968
(Annotated; clipping inserted)
Box 77
Edmond Rostand (trans. James Forsyth) Cyrano de Bergerac. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1968
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980 annotated)
Box 77
Reginald Scot The Discoverie of Witchcraft. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1990 annotated)
Box 77
Edmond Rostand (trans. Lowell Blair) Cyrano de Bergerac. The New American Library, Inc.:, 1972
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980 annotated)
Box 77
Ruth Whitman The Passion of Lizzy Borden: New and Selected Poems. New York: October House Inc., 1973
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1974)
Box 77
Robert Sullivan Goodbye Lizzie Borden. Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson from Nora Beeson, 1974 annotated; clipping inserted)
Box 77
Edmond Rostand (translated and adapted by Anthony Burgess) Cyrano de Bergerac. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1978
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980 annotated; clipping inserted)
Box 77
Edmond Rostand (trans. Brian Hooker) Cyrano de Bergerac. New York: Bantam Books, 1978
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1980 annotated)
Box 77
Kathryn Paulsen The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft. New York: New American Library, 1980
Box 77
Joyce G. Williams et al., eds. Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1980s. Self-published,, 1980
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson; annotated)
Box 77
John Frederick Cone First Rival of the Metropolitan Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983
(Inscribed "Used in our writing ofJinks; Col Mapleson, Jack Beeson & SH")
Box 77
Evan Hunter Lizzie (A Novel ). New York: Arbor House, 1984
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson from Nora Beeson, 1984)
Box 77
Edwin H. Porter, The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Portland, ME: King Philip Publishing Co., 1985 (original 1893), 1985
(Facsimile and re-issue; inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1991)
Box 77
Arthur S. Phillips The Borden Murder Mystery: In Defence of Lizzie Borden. Portland, ME: King Philip Publishing Co.,, 1986
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1991)
Box 77
Stephen Flowers The Galdrabok: An Icelandic Grimoire. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1989
(Annotated; clippings inserted)
Box 77
Arnold R. Brown Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press,, 1991
(Inscribed to Jack Beeson from Miranda Beeson, 1991)
Box 77
David Kent The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1992
Box 78
Paul Banks, ed. The Making of Peter Grimes. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1996
Item 119 Item 1
Immensee by Theodor Storm, edited by Elmer O. Woodley, 1936, 1938
Educational edition for learning German vocabulary. Contains annotations. "Jack Beeson '38 Feb" written on cover.
Item 119 Item 2
L'arrabbiata by Paul Heyse, edited by Lynwood G. Downs, 1936
Educational edition for learning German vocabulary. Contains annotations and named on cover.
Item 119 Item 3
Galgenlieder by Christopher Morgenstern, translated by Max Knight, 1963, 2007, 2010
A clipping from the Times Literary Supplement is interleaved in the front cover. Contains a note from "Elizabeth and Rafael" in the front cover dated 1963. Annotated "JB 2007" in Beeson's hand. Contains annotations (with Beeson's own translations) and post-it notes.
Item 119 Item 4
Strike Through the Mask, poetry by Peter Viereck, 1950
Contains annotations (including Beeson's alternative titles for the poems).
Item 119 Item 5
The Cave-Dwellers, play by William Saroyan, 1958-1959
Labeled "Jack Beeson, Parma, 1959" on the first page. A flyer for a workshop of the play at Hunter College is interleaved.
Item 119 Item 6
Mr. Arcularis, play by Conrad Aiken, 1957
Item 119 Item 7
Boosey and Hawkes: The Publishing Story by Helen Wallace, 2007
Contains a note from "Sarah and Baird" on the first page. Contains annotations. Interleaved with a clipping of a review of the book in the Times Literary Supplement.
Item 119 Item 8
Frankfurt, Basel, New York by Richard Plant, edited by Andreas Sternweiler, 1996
Book includes material about Beeson's compositions. Contains annotations. Contains post-it notes. Text is in German.
Item 119 Item 9
Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, 1967-1987 by Peter Viereck, 1987, 1991
Labeled "Jack Beeson, 1991" on the first page. Contains annotations. Contains post-it notes.
Item 119 Item 10
Tide and Continuities, poetry by Peter Viereck, 1995, 2001-08-07
Labeled "Jack Beeson, August 7, '01 (see page vii)" on the first page. Contains annotations. Contains post-it notes. Image on the back cover has been cut out.
Item 119 Item 11
Rosa Winkel: Der Krieg der Nazis gegen die Homosexuellen by Richard Plant, 1991
Labeled "Jack Beeson: Bought in a Hagen bookstore, 1986" on the third page. Contains some annotations.
Item 119 Item 12
Thematic Catalog of Songs, published by Southern Music Publishing, ca. 1954, 2004-01-27
Contains a song by Beeson. A note from Beeson dated "Jan 27, '04" is interleaved.
Item 119 Item 13
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant, 1986
Clippings of articles about Plant and the Nazi persecution of homosexuals are interleaved. Contains post-it notes.
Item 119 Item 14
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, 1940, 2006-01-22, 2006-01-27, 2006-02-01, 2006-03-03, 2008-01-18, 2008-10-24, 2009-01-16, 2009-11-30, 2010-01-30
Clippings of articles about the book are interleaved. One clipping is taped to the inside cover. Contains annotations. Contains post-it notes.
Item 119 Item 15
The Annotated Mother Goose, edited by Ceil and William S. Baring-Gould, 1967, 1973-11-30
Labeled "Jack Beeson, Nov 30 1973 NYC" on the first page.
Item 119 Item 16
A Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake, 1983, 1999-03-05
Beeson's stapled notes are interleaved. Contains post-it notes. Clipping of a review of the book in the Times Literary Supplement is interleaved.
Box 79
Igor Stravinsky: A Complete Catalogue of His Published Works. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1957
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1962 clippings inserted)
Box 79
Stravinsky and the Dance: A Survey of Ballet Productions, 1910-1962. New York: The New York Public Library,, 1962
(Inscribed by Jack Beeson, 1962)
Box 77
The Legend 100 Years After the Crime: A Conference on the Lizzie Borden Case . Conference proceedings, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA,, August 3-5, 1992
(Annotated; clippings inserted)
Box 79
Mario R. Mercado, ed. Kurt Weill: A Guide to His Works (Second Edition). New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.,, 1994
(Annotated; correspondence inserted)
Box 79
Jacques Barzun Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass. Cooperstown, NY: Glimmerglass Opera, 2001
(Annotated; correspondence inserted)
Item 119 Item 18
American Academy of Arts and Letters: Centennial Portfolio
, 1998
Contains an article cowritten by Beeson.
Item 119 Item 19
Proceeding of Ceremonies to Mark the Formal Opening of the New Building of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
, 1931
Contains some annotations.
Item 119 Item 20
Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
, 1987
Item 119 Item 21
Memorial for Mack Lipkin, 1907-1989, 1989-06-05T00:00:00+00:00
Contains a note from Carol Lipkin taped to the front inside cover.