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Reminiscences of Marshall Ayres Best : oral history, 1976.

Creator: Best, Marshall Ayres, 1901-1982.
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 239 leaves. Tape 5 reels. Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Publisher.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education; founding of Viking Press, 1925; ULYSSES incident; impressions of Viking authors; Literary Guild, Book-of-the-Month Club; Viking PORTABLE LIBRARY; juvenile book publishing; wartime publishing; Armed Services Editions; American vs. English editing; work with Ben W. Huebsch, Thomas Guinzburg.

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