Reminiscences of Hugh Joseph Kelly : oral history, 1954.

Biographical Note

Publishing executive

Scope and Contents

Family background; editorship of Columbia University daily, THE SPECTATOR; Columbia University Press; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1927, Martin Foss and Edward Caldwell; relationship between Book Company and parent company; sales and promotion; buying on approval; expansion of college traveling system; merger with Shaw Company, vocational and textbook publishing; publications dates and revisions; Whittlesey House; international business; Gregg merger; book printing, binding, storage and distribution; paper supply

Subjects

• Book industries and trade.
• Columbia University.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Educational publishing.
• Interviews.
• Kelly, Hugh Joseph, 1905-
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.