Box 11

Scope and Content From the Collection: The first 3 boxes of the collection contain the general correspondence files of the press. The correspondence documents the inception and the development of the press, as well as containing correspondence from a vast array of contemporary poets, novelists, editors, and publishers. The remaining 21 boxes of the collection consists of Black Sparrow Press' archives of titles published between 1973 and 1976. There are more than 60 titles, representing some 30 different authors,...

Scope and Contents Cover design; title page layout; dust jacket layout; Partial manuscript; xeroxed and typewritten printer's manuscript; Correspondence: Wright Morris/John Martin; Galley proofs, "set 2"; page proofs, "set 1", "set 2", and "set 2 revised"; signature proofs, one set; one paperback copy; two "file copies", signed, hard cover; one hard cover copy in dust jacket, unsigned; Correspondence: Jo Morris to John Martin, ; Article "Wright Morris: A Reader" by John W. Aldridge, from the New York Times Book...

Scope and Contents Art work, including two copies of photo used on cover and one negative; printing instructions; Typewritten manuscript; First proofs; Final proofs; Twenty-two letters from Gerard Malanga to John Martin; one letter from Gerard Malanga to Barbara Martin; one letter from Seamus Cooney to John Martin; one letter from Bill King to John Martin; Paste-up of book; originals of first uncorrected reproduction proofs; one copy of Field, no. 9, Fall,...