John Bennett Shaw Collection of Printed Ephemera for Modern Authors, 1897-1986, bulk 1900-1970s | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Collection consists of programs, playbills, proof copy, publication announcements, press releases, and other ephemera. The authors in the collection are primarily 20th-century British and American writers. The collection also includes many single-issue journals, quite frequently the place where a story or poem was first published. Although this collection contains, as the title implies, much that is ephemeral and prosaic, there are many items of interest: from early publications of Eliot's "The Waste Land" in The Dial (November 1922) and Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" in To-Morrow (August 1924) to the initial publication of Waugh's The Loved One in Horizon, February 1948. There is a playbill from I Am a Camera, which is based upon Isherword's Berlin Stories and which subsequently became the film Cabaret to a moving recording of Gertrude Stein reading her tribute to Sherwood Anderson, "Valentine for Sherwood." More obscure figures are also represented, for example: Harvey Breit's There Falls Tom Fool inscribed by the author and the "crime dossiers" of Dennis Wheatley