Guide to the Gabriel Wells Ephemera Collection
Title:
Gabriel Wells ephemera
OCLC/RLIN No. (Unique ID):
870882215
Dates:
1925-1937
Extent:
ca. 25 items (1 box)
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use. Copyright restrictions may apply; please contact repository for requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the materials.
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], Gabriel Wells Ephemera, The Grolier Club of New York.
About the Finding Aid:
This finding aid was prepared by Meghan Constantinou in Microsoft Word at the Grolier Club, February 2014.
Provenance:
Gift of Gabriel Wells, Acc. no. 25,516
Access Points:
Names
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946
Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939
Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931
Subjects
Printing—United States—20th century—Specimens
Booksellers and bookselling
Scope and Content Note:
Collection consists of printed ephemera generated by noted Hungarian-American bookseller Gabriel Wells. Includes seven Christmas cards containing poems written by Wells between 1927 and 1936; some cards designed by Frederic Warde and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Also includes 14 printed essays and addresses on political topics: Plea for common sense (1935) -- The President's court proposal [1937] -- Can peace be maintained in Europe? (1936) -- If I were Dictator (1933) -- Human nature and world disorder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co.; London: Henry Sotheran, 1933) -- On capital punishment (London: William Heinemann; NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929) -- The world in chaos (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930) -- The menace of divorce (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1927) -- Are we a democracy? (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1927) -- If I were France (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1926) -- The way to peace (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928) -- Arbitration (Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, 1925) -- The Tennessee cause celebre (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1925) -- Common sense and the crisis (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1933).
Arrangement Note:
Original order maintained