Placing papers : the American literary archives market / Amy Hildreth Chen.

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"The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and conside...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Main Author: Chen, Amy, 1984- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subjects:
Libraries > Special collections > American literature.
Archives > United States > Administration > History.
Archives > Acquisitions > United States > History.
Authors, American > Archives.
Archives > Acquisitions.
Archives > Administration.
United States.
History.
Genre:
Archives.
History.
Physical Description:xi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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