Jacob Blanck Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1998-0198

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Drafts and proof sheets for five works by Blanck: “Peter Parley to Penrod” (typescript and corrected proof sheets), “Salmagundi and Its Publisher” (carbon of typescript), “Harry Castlemon” (worksheets, three drafts and proof sheets), “American First Editions,” 4th ed. (proof sheets), and “American Authors” (proof sheets).

Dates

undated

Access

The collection is open and available for research.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Biography

Jacob Nathaniel Blanck was born 10 November 1906, in Boston, MA, the son of Selig and Mildred Rosenberg (Friedman) Blanck. He attended Boston public schools and received his L.H.D. from Brown University [1969] and P.B.K. from Harvard University in 1970. He was a Rare book editor of Publishers Weekly and Antiquarian Bookman [1936-52], a bibliographer of Americana at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [1939-41], a consultant on bibliography at Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis [1942], and editor of the Bibliography of American Literature [1943-74]. A member of the American Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (honorary), Massachusetts Historical Society, Club of Odd Volumes(Boston). Blanck died on 23 December 1974, in Boston, MA.

Extent

1.3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

American bibliographer, 1906-1974.

Acquisition Information

Provenance unknown.

Related Material

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