World Publishing Company records, 1908-1975

Finding Aid

Prepared by Nancy Birk, January, 1996; Revised by Elizabeth Traina, April 2012
8 record storage boxes, 1 half record storage box, 1 slim document case, 4 flat oversized boxes, 11 cubic feet, Storage and 11th floor

This material is housed in an off-site storage facility and requires up to 5 business days for retrieval. Please call or email the department with requests for this material prior to your visit.

Oversized items and some photographic materials remain onsite in Special Collections and Archives.

Scope and Content: The records of the World Publishing Company include correspondence, financial records, photographs, slides, and various publications. Most of the materials are from the personal collection of the late Lillian Zevin, the ex-wife of Ben Zevin, former President of the World Publishing Company. They were given to the Department of Special Collections and Archives in 1986 along with a substantial collection of books printed by World. Those books have been cataloged in KentLINK and can be found by performing a SUBJECT searching on "World Publishing Company Collection."

Lillian Zevin's father was Alfred H. Cahen, the founder of the World Publishing Company as well as the Commercial Bookbinding Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection includes records from the time period of Commercial as well as World. But because this collection of records was a personal collection from an individual and not the company's official archive, there are some gaps in the record. However, this collection is still rich in documenting the history of the company and particularly significant are the financial records which are complete, as well as files on the high spots of World's publishing focus: Bibles and dictionaries.

Restrictions on Use: Kent State University does not own copyright to World Publishing Company publications. The staff of Special Collections and Archives cannot perform this research for you and suggest you work with a copyright clearance firm.

Historical Outline of the World Publishing Company

1898 Alfred Cahen arrived in London after walking across Europe from Poland, learning the printing business in Poland, Russia, Germany, and Holland. In London he worked for a company that did phamplets, library bindings, and repaired manuscripts for museums and private collectors.

1902 Mr. Cahen left London and came to Ohio where he worked for the Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron.

1905 Mr. Cahen opened his own bindery in Cleveland, the beginning of the Commercial Bookbinding Company.

1912 Cylinder presses were added, giving the company printing as well as binding facilities.

1916 The company built its own plant at West 110th street and Western Avenue.

1920 Fire destroyed the whole plant.

1921 The plant was again in production.

1923 The second building was erected.

1928 A third building was added. Automatic machinery, unique in the industry, was designed and built by Mr. Cahen and later adopted by most large book manufacturers as well as the Government Printing establishment. Mr. Cahen's two sons, Herman and Julius, both engineers and graduates of Case Institute of Technology, helped build the various machines. The World Syndicate Publishing Company was aquired along with their office in New York City. The company began publishing Bibles, dictionaries, and children's books.

1929 The company went public with a stock issue. LINDBERG, THE LONE EAGLE, was written, printed and bound in only one week, becoming the first book on that historic flight and launching World into trade publishing.

1930 The company set up an office in Chicago.

1935 Ben D. Zevin joined the company.

1936 Another building was put up to house the growing plant.

1939 The reprint line, Tower Books at $.49, was launched.

1940 The company had become the largest publisher of Bibles and dictionaries in the United States.

1941 Work was started on Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language.

1942 Forum Books, a $1.00 reprint line, was started, and the children's book line was growing much larger. During World War II, 17 million government-issued Bibles were distributed to the armed forces, and four out of every ten were made by World.

1945 Ben Zevin became president of the company.

1949 The Bruce Rogers World Bible was published in an edition limited to 975 copies.

1953 The College Edition of the New World Dictionary was published and quickly became the leading college dictionary in the country.

1963 The company was sold to Times Mirror, who eventually sold it to William Collins Sons, Ltd. When that company was disbanded in 1980, the dictionary division was sold to Simon & Schuster, who still publish Webster's New World Dictionary. The Bibles, childrens' and trade books were sold to various other companies, and some of these are still in print.

Description of Series

• Series 1: Publications: Annual Reports
• Series 2: Publications: Books
• Series 3: Publications: Catalogs
• Series 4: Publications: Dummy (Proof) Copies
• Series 5: Publications: Bible Slipcases
• Series 6: Publications: Our World
• Series 7: Slides
• Series 8: Record Books
• Series 9: Oversized files
• Series 10: Correspondence
• Series 11: Commemorations
• Series 12: Miscellaneous Historical Records
• Series 13: Photographs
  • Sub-series 1: World Publishing Company Facilities and Plant Operations
  • Sub-series 2: World Publishing Company Events and Personnel
  • Sub-series 3: Photographs of World Authors
• Series 14: License agreements, Book jacket requests
• Series 15: Subject files
• Series 16: Artwork
• Series 17: Negative Microfilm

Series 1 -- Publications: Annual Reports

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Annual Report: 1940
2. Annual Report: 1941
3. Annual Report: 1943
4. Annual Report: 1944
5. Annual Report: 1945
6. Annual Report: 1946
7. Annual Report: 1947
8. Annual Report: 1948
9. Annual Report: 1949
10. Annual Report: 1950
11. Annual Report: 1951
12. Annual Report: 1952
13. Annual Report: 1953
14. Annual Report: 1954
15. Annual Report: 1955
16. Annual Report: 1958
17. Annual Report: 1960
18. Annual Report: 1962
19. Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders, 1963

Series 2 -- Publications: Books

20. Publications: Bookbinding Magazine: Aug. 1929
21. Publications: Book Jacket, "Rulers of Darkness"
22. Publications, Books: "Beyond the High Hills," 1961
23. Publications, Books: "The Wardrobe Book," 1952
24. Publications, Books: "World's Road Atlas," 1966
25. Publications, Books: "World's Road Atlas," 1967

Series 3 -- Publications: Catalogs

26. Catalogs: 1945
27. Catalogs: 1954
28. Catalogs: 1955
29. Catalogs: 1958
30. Catalogs: 1959
31. Catalogs: 1960
32. Catalogs: 1961
33. Catalogs: 1962
34. Catalogs: 1963
35. Catalogs: 1964
36. Catalogs: 1965
37. Catalogs: 1966
38. Catalogs: 1967
39. Catalogs: 1968
40. Catalogs: 1969
41. Catalogs: 1970

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

1. Catalogs: Spring 1971
2. Catalogs: Fall 1971
3. Catalogs: Miscellaneous: Fall 1971
4. Catalogs: 1972
5. Catalogs: 1973
6. Catalogs, undated

Series 4 -- Publications: Dummy (Proof) Copies

7. Dummy Copy: New Testament, Protestant Version, Presented by the Army of the U.S.
8. Dummy Copy: Holy Bible

Series 5 -- Publications: Bible Slipcases (Bibles are cataloged in KentLINK and shelved in the LC-classed book collection)

9. Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 1900. C53b
10. Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 186 1900 .C53q, first example of gilding applied mechanically
11. Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 198 .F811
12. Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 .C53a
13. Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 .C53c

Series 6 -- Publications: Our World

14. Our World, 1944
15. Our World, 1945
16. Our World, 1946
17. Our World, 1947
18. Our World, 1948
19. Our World, 1958
20. Our World, 1959
21. Our World, 1960
22. Our World, 1961
23. Negatives: Illustrations for Newsletter

Series 7 -- Photographic Slides

24. Slides: Arcaddi, Outtakes
25. Slides: Bedford outtakes
26. Slides: Bindery #2, 1970
27. Slides: Casing In
28. Slides: Gilding
29. Slides: Misc., 1970
30. Slides: Misc., undated
31. Slides: Printing
32. Slides: Werker, Duplicate Titles
33. Slides: Werker, outtakes, Times-Mirror
34. Slides: Werner/Rebsen 1969, Outtakes
35. Slides: World, Times-Mirror, Duplicate Benefit

Series 8 -- Record Books

Box 3
Folder -- Contents

1. Record Books: Commercial Bookbinding, 1908-1928
2. Record Books: Commercial Bookbinding, Appraisement, 1924 & 1929
3. Record Books: Cahen Manufacturing Company, Stock Certificate Repayments, 1911
4. Record Books: Noonday Press, Stock Certificates, 1952
5. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Profits and Losses, 1953-58
6. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1926-1930
7. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1929-1949
8. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1931-1940

Box 3A
Folder -- Contents

1. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Satements, 1941-1950
2. Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1951-1961

Series 9 -- Oversized Files

3. Oversized Files: Certificate, Alfred Cahen, 1953
4. Oversized Files: Certificate, Western Reserve Historical Society, 1967
5. Oversized FIles: Dummy Copy: Webster's New World Dictionary
6. Oversized Files: Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Announcement: 1962

Box 3B
Folder -- Contents

This box contains the contents of a scrapbook dedicated to Alfred Cahen by employees of the Commercial Bookbinding Co. (later, the World Publishing Company). The scrapbook, dated 1934, was created in honor of the 30th anniversary of Cahen's founding of the company. The folders are arranged in the order in which the scrapbook pages were created.

Series 10 -- Correspondence

Box 4
Folder -- Contents

1. Cahen Correspondence: Misc.
2. Pritzer Correspondence: Misc.
3. Zevin Correspondence: Bates, Kenneth
4. Zevin Correspondence: Crockett, James Underwood
5. Zevin Correspondence: Izant, Grace Goulder
6. Zevin Correspondence: Lantz, Robert
7. Zevin Correspondence: Lipp, Fred
8. Zevin Correspondence: The Plain Dealer
9. Zevin Correspondence: Sayre, Francis
10. Zevin Correspondence: Selby, John
11. Zevin Correspondence: Silver, Daniel (Rabbi)
12. Zevin Correspondence: Wakeman, Fred
13. Zevin Correspondence: Condolence letters sent out on the death of Alfred Cahen, 1963
14. Zevin Correspondence: Holiday Cards, sent out either by World or Lillian and Ben Zevin
15. Zevin Corresponence: Misc.

Series 11 -- Commemorations (see also: Series 13: Photographs)

16. Commemorations: 30th Anniversay, The Commercail Bookbinding Co., April 7, 1934, Program
17. Commemorations:Testimonial Dinner Honoring Paul A, LInkert, Hotel Statler, July 18, 1942, Program
18. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Attendees
19. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Invitation
20. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Congratulations
21. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Response to Invitation
22. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Response to Invitation
23. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Newsclippings
24. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Photographs
25. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Program
26. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Speeches
27. Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Telegrams
28. Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Binder
29. Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Newsclippings
30. Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Photographs
31. Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Program
32. Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Telegrams

Series 12 -- Miscellaneous Historical Records

33. Misc: Cahen Obituaries
34. Misc: Employee Manual
35. Misc: "A Few of Lillian's Favorite Recipes" Booklet from Lillian Zevin's Memorial Service
36. Misc: Histories of Commercial and World
37. Misc: Newsclippings
38. Misc: Speeches
39. Misc: Bookbinding Magazine: Aug. 1929

Series 13 -- Photographs

Sub-series 1: World Publishing Company Facilities and Plant Operations

Box 5
Folder -- Contents

1. Photograph: Book sewing machine: 1958
2. Photograph: Case making machine: 1958
3. Photograph: Case in machines for putting books in covers
4. Photograph: Corrugated cartons stored in warehouse: 1958
5. Photograph: Cover making: 1958
6. Photograph: Cover stamping; Joe Hipps: 1958
7. Photographs: Exterior Facilities (multiple photos)
8. Photograph: Folding
9. Photograph: Folding machine:1958
10. Photograph: Forwarding machine moving sewn books to gluing: 1958
11. Photograph: Gathering machine, section by section: 1958
12. Photograph: Gluing the backs of books before hanging-in: 1958
13. Photographs: Applying gold-leaf to the edges of books; John McLeod, William Welsh: 1958 (multiple photos)
14. Photographs: Imitated gold-leaf stamped on flexible covers; Joe Hipps: 1958 (multiple photos)
15. Photograph: Inspection: 1958
16. Photographs: Inspection and packing line: 1958 (multiple photos)
17. Photograph: Line of sewing machines: 1958
18. Photographs: Rotary Press: 1958 (multiple photos)
19. Feeder end of high speed rotary press
20. Photographs: Rounded backs and super liner machine: 1958 (multiple photos)
21. Photograph: Skids of guilded books: 1958
22. Photograph: Plant cafeteria: 1958
23. Photograph: Picking orders: 1958
24. Photographs: Printing: 1958 (multiple photos)
25. Photographs: Printing plates cleaning and inspection; Ben Ogden: 1958
26. Photograph: Shipping cartons in warehouse
27. Photograph: Tipping; Polly Monrose: 1958

Sub-series 2: World Publishing Company Events and Personnel (see also: Series 11: Commemorations)

Box 5A
Folder -- Contents

1. Photograph: Cahen, Alfred (and others): 1955
2. Photograph: Charpie, Leonard
3. Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Lillian Zevin, and others
4. Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Leonard Charpie, William Buckley
5. Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Henry Luce, and others
6. Photograph: Miscellaneous Personnel (?)
7. Photographs: Miscellaneous (multiple photos)
8. Photograph: Office Staff, Commercial Bookbinding Company: May 6, 1929
9. Photograph: World Publishing Company Retirement Plan Dinner, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 28, 1943
10. Photograph: Presidential Banquet, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: May 19, 1945
11. Photograph: Golden Jubilee Anniversary Banquet, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 17, 1954 (with caption)
12. Photograph: Golden Jubilee Anniversary Banquet, Grand Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio: December 17, 1954 (with caption)
13. Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 16-18, 1959
14. Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 12-15, 1960
15. Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: January 4-7, 1965
16. Photograph: Sales Conference, Sheraton-Cleveland, Ohio: December 13-17, 1965

Sub-series 3: Photographs of World Authors (many are inscribed)
Folder -- Contents

17. Photograph: Anderson, William R.
18. Photograph: Bassett, Jim
19. Photograph: Bennett, Paul: January, 1952
20. Photograph: Blacker, Irwin
21. Photograph: Blair, Clay , Jr.
22. Photograph: Bowra, C. Maurice
23. Photograph: Breit, Harvey
24. Photograph: Brock, Ray (with Turkish Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu and US Ambassador George W. Wadsworth)
25. Photograph: Buck, Pearl S.
26. Photograph: Cain, James M.
27. Photograph: Cantor, Eddie
28. Photograph: Churchill, Randolph
29. Photograph: Chute, Marchette
30. Photograph: Craven, Thomas

Box 5B
Folder -- Contents

1. Photograph: de Valois, Nanette
2. Photograph: Dreiser, Theodore
3. Photograph: Elath, Eliahu
4. Photograph: Ellis, William Donahue
5. Photograph: Fadiman, Clifton
6. Photograph: Feibelman, Peter S.: April 19, 1958
7. Photograph: Ferber, Edna
8. Photograph: Freeman, Lucy: October, 1956
9. Photograph: Harriman, Margaret Case
10. Photograph: Haygood, William Converse
11. Photograph: Hibbert, Christopher
12. Photograph: Hurst, Fannie
13. Photograph: Jessel, George: 1944
14. Photograph: Kantor, MacKinlay
15. Photograph: Kennedy, Jay
16. Photograph: Mason, Richard
17. Photograph: Meyer, Jerome
18. Photograph: Montague, Ashley: September, 1951 (?)
19. Photograph: Montgomery, Viscount: 1958
20. Photograph: Muriac, François

Box 5C
Folder -- Contents

1. Photograph: Nathan, George Jean
2. Photograph: Newman, Joe: September, 1948
3. Photograph: Peattie, Donald Culross
4. Photograph: Rice, Craig
5. Photograph: Seltzer, Louis: October 1956
6. Photograph: Skira, Albert: December, 1959
7. Photograph: Slaughter, Frank
8. Photograph: Smith, Lillian
9. Photograph: Targ, Bill (William): September, 1957
10. Photograph: Tunis, Edwin
11. Original Print: Tunis, Edwin
12. Photograph: Ullman, James Ramsey
13. Photograph: Van Doren, Carl
14. Photograph: Van Loon, Hendrick Willem
15. Photograph: Warde, Beatrice
16. Photograph: Wittenberg, Phil: December, 1956
17. Photograph: Unidentified: 1

Series 14 -- License agreements, Book jacket requests

Box 6
Folder -- Contents

1. Imperialism, Social Classses (M4) by Joseph Schumpeter
2. Creative Invitation in Art and Poetry (M8) by Jacques Maritain
3. Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy (M9) by Eduard Zeiler
4. The Language and Though of the Child (M10) by Jean Piaget
5. Sex and Repression in Primitive Society (M15) by Bronislav Malinowski
6. Pragmatism (M16) by William James
7. Hero With a Thousand Faces (M22) by Joseph Campbell
8. Byzantine Civilization (M23)by Steven Runciman
9. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (M28) by C.G. Jung
10. Selected Writings of Martin Buber (M29) edited by Will Herberg
11. The Making of Europe: an introduction to the history of European unity (M35) by Christopher Dawson
12. Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre (M39) by Walter Kaufmann
13. Italian Painters of the Renaissance (M40) by Bernard Berenson
14. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (M44) by Erwin Panofsky
15. Freud and the Twentieth Century (M45) by Benjamin Nelson
16. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (M49) by Charles Homer Haskins
17. New Poets of England and America (M50) edited and selected by Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson
18. Civilization on Trial and The World and the West(M52) by Arnold Toynbee
19. Debates with Historians (M57) by Pieter Geyl
20. Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (M58) by Harold Lasswell
21. Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: an Introduction to Greek Mythology (M59) by H.J. Rose
22. Witchcraft (M62) by Charles Williams
23. The Disinherited Mind (M66) by Erich Heller
24. The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities (M71) by F. S. C. Northrop
25. On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme (M84) by Jose Ortega y Gasset
26. The Answer to Job (M86) by C.G. Jung
27. The Philosophy of Science (M90) by Arthur Danto
28. American Foreign Policy (M91) by Robert A. Divine
29. God and the Ways of Knowing (M96) by J. Danielou
30. Senator Joe McCarthy (M98) by Richard H. Rovere
31. The American Pragmatists (M105) by Dr. Milton R. Konvits and Dr. Gail Kennedy
32. Aesthetics Today (M112) edited by Morris Philipson
33. Hellenistic Civilisation (M121) by W.W. Tarn
34. Years of Conscience (M129) edited by Harvey Swados
35. Essays on Fairth and Morals (M130) by William James
36. History of Anarchism (M133) by George Woodcock
37. New Poets of England and America (M135) edited by Donald Hall and Robert Pack
38. Utilitariansim (M140) by John Stuart Mill (edited by M. Warnock).
39. The Spanish Conquistadores (M146) by F. A. Kirkpatrick
40. The European Mind (M152) by Paul Hazard
41. Patterns in Comparative Religion(M155) by Mircea Eliande
42. Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (M160) by C. L. Barber
43. The Drama of Atheist Humanism (M165) by Henri du Lubac
44. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (M182) by John Locke
45. Primitive Art (M185) by Paul Winegart
46. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (M190) by Ashley Montague
47. Africa's Search for Identity (M225) by Victor C. Ferkiss
48. Beyond Theology: the Art of Godmanship (M237) by Alan Watts
49. Annotated Mother Goose (M238)
50. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: patterns of Japanase culture (M242) by Ruth Benedict
51. Abstraction and Empathy (M249) by Wilhelm Worringer
52. Guide to Fossil Man (M253) by Michael Day
53. The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes (M261) by Mortimer J. Adler
54. Intevention and Revolution (M269) by Richard Barnet
55. The Biology of Ultimate Concern (M270) by Theodosius Dobzhansky
56. From the Ashes (M272) by Budd Schulberg
57. I, The Aboriginal (M281) by Douglas Lockwood
58. Letters to Two Friends (M289) by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
59. Wallace (M291) by Marshall Frady
60. Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America (M298) Cahn ed.
61. The Annotated Alice (M306) by Martin Gardner
62. Mysticism (M307) by Evelyn Underhill
63. Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings (M308) edited by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. and Ben Raeburn
64. Primitive Christianity (M309) by Rudolf Bultmann
65. Existence and Faith (M310) by Rudolf Bultmann
66. The Meaning of Paul for Today (M311) by C.H. Dodd
67. The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (M312)
68. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (M330) by R.E. Raspe and others
69. Marijuana: the new prohibition (M331) by John Kaplan
70. The Conspiracy of the Young (M332) by Paul Lauter and Florence Howe
71. The Conspiracy of the Young (M332) by Paul Lauter and Florence Howe article in The Paper, Nov. 4-18, 1970, pg. 10 and 15
72. Varities of History (M333), revised by Fritz Stern
73. Mug Shots: who's who in the new earth (M336) by Jay Acton, Alan Lemond, Parker Hodges
74. Function of the Orgasm (M340); The Sexual Revolution (M338); The Impulsive Character (M387); The Mass Psychology of Fascism (M339) by Wilhelm Reich
75. The Heroic Triad (M341) by Paul Horgan
76. The Social Sources of Denominationalism (M343) by H. Richard Niebuhr
77. Religion in the Making (M344) by Alfred North Whitehead
78. Litergies of the Western Church (M345) selected and introduced by Bard Thompson
79. A Short History of Christianity (M346) by Martin E. Marty
80. The Collected Stories (M347) by Isaac Babel
81. The Origins of Totalitarianism (M348) by Hannah Arendt
82. The Meridian/Abrams Modern Painters Series: Tobey(M352); Vasarely (M354); Rauschenberg (M356); Albers (M353); Johns (M355); Rivers (M357)
83. The Living New Testament (M359)
84. A Practical manual of Screen Playwriting; for Theater and Television Films (M360) by Lewis Herman
85. The Annotated 'Social Contract' (M369) by Jean-Jacques Roussear
86. The Golden Bowl (M382) by Henry James, edited by John Halperin
87. A Casebook on Anais Nin (M384) by Zeller
88. My Life in Art (M64) by Constantin Stanislavski
89. A Cherokee Tragedy (Unnumbered) by Thurman Wilkins
90. The Great terror (Unnumbered) by Robert Conquest
91. Man and the Biosphere (Unnumbered) by R. Dasmann
92. Planet in Peril (Unnumbered) by R. Dasmann
93. Views of History (Unnumbered) edited by Stanley Kelley, Jr.

Series 15 -- Subject Files

Box 7
Folder -- Contents

1. Subject files: Agents, general
2. Subject files: Agents: Henry Morrison
3. Subject files: Agents: Marie Rodell
4. Subject files: Agents: authors lists
5. Subject files: Annotated series, Meridian
6. Subject files: Book Manufacturers' Institute
7. Subject files: Bruce Rogers Bible
8. Subject files: Cahen Notching Machine
9. Subject files: Colophons from Ben Zevin's files
10. Subject files: Contracts and rights
11. Subject files: Editorial candidates, Meridian
12. Subject files: Encounter
13. Subject files: Expense reports
14. Subject files: Finances: budget
15. Subject files: Financial records - accounts, Counts, A. Frank: 1927-29
16. Subject files: Financial records - accounts-statements, bankbooks: 1911-13
17. Subject files: Financial records - purchase of Britton Printing Co.: 1930
18. Subject files: Financial records - receipts: 1916
19. Subject files: Financial records - Saalfield Publishing Co.: 1912
20. Subject files: Financial records - statements: 1923-26
21. Subject files: Fliers
22. Subject files: Fliers: Spring 1971
23. Subject files: Fliers: 1972
24. Subject files: General: 1966
25. Subject files: General: 1967
26. Subject files: General: 1970-75
27. Subject files: Glynn, Georgia
28. Subject files: Jackets
29. Subject files: Legal records, contract, Holmes: 1919-1929
30. Subject files: Legal records - opinion, FTC vs. Standard Education Society
31. Subject files: Manuscripts
32. Subject files: Memorandums, interoffice: 1969-70
33. Subject files: New World Dictionary, folder 1
34. Subject files: New World Dictionary, folder 2
35. Subject files: Newman, Joe
36. Subject files: Plume
37. Subject files: Production matters
38. Subject files: Promotion - advertising
39. Subject files: Proposals
40. Subject files: Proposals: Insight books
41. Subject files: Proposals: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
42. Subject files: Proposals: Pepys Diary
43. Subject files: Proposals: Picking Up the Gun by Earl Anthony
44. Subject files: Proposals: recorded dialog program
45. Subject files: Proposals: The Time of Our Lives by Mortimer J. Adler
46. Subject files: Proposals: Apocalypse calendar
47. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Art in Needlepoint by Peter Stillman
48. Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
49. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Broadway by Brooks Atkinson
50. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Edgar Cayce's Home Remedies compiled by Brett Bolton
51. Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Eisenhower Administration by Herbert S. Parmet
52. Subject files: Proposals, dead: How We Live by Penny and L. Rust Hills
53. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Huac Hearings by Robert Vaughn
54. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Ideas
55. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Music Encyclopedia
56. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Satire: a Critical Anthology
57. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget
58. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Churchill: a Study in Failure by Robert Rhodes James
59. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Where We Belong: the Israeli Diary of a Young American Jew by Steve Felson, edited by Mel Ziegler
60. Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Young Years (tentative) by Bruno Bettelheim
61. Subject files: Proposals, dead: Your Stockbroker by Lewis Gordon, Jr.

Box 8
Folder -- Contents

1. Subject files: Reprints
2. Subject files: Republishing program
3. Subject files: Republishing program: backlist
4. Subject files: Reversion of titles
5. Subject files: Rights, return of
6. Subject files: Royalty statements
7. Subject files: Sales, best sellers: 1968-73
8. Subject files: Sales, projection for 1968
9. Subject files: Solicitations
10. Subject files: Solicitations, Meridian
11. Subject files: Style Sheets
12. Subject files: Times projects
13. Subject files: Tipping Machine

Series 16: Artwork

14. Artwork: Ablissae
15. Artwork: Abdomen
16. Artwork: Alpaca
17. Artwork: Anableps Tetraophthalmus
18. Artwork: Anchoug
19. Artwork: Angel fish
20. Artwork: Anise
21. Artwork: Ant Bear
22. Artwork: Antiparallels
23. Artwork: Apse
24. Artwork: Apteryx
25. Artwork: Argonauta Argo
26. Artwork: Argus Pheasant
27. Artwork: Artesian Well
28. Artwork: Aswail
29. Artwork: Baboon (Mandrill)
30. Artwork: Baloeniceps Rex
31. Artwork: Balsam Tree Cone
32. Artwork: Banyan Tree
33. Artwork: Baptistery
34. Artwork: Bicycle
35. Artwork: Bison
36. Artwork: Blast Furnace
37. Artwork: Bolanius Tintinnabulim
38. Artwork: Bombardone
39. Artwork: Boss
40. Artwork: Bower Bird
41. Artwork: Bridge
42. Artwork: Broccoli
43. Artwork: Bungalow
44. Artwork: Byssus
45. Artwork: Camera (Lucida)
46. Artwork: Camera (Obscura)
47. Artwork: Candelabra
48. Artwork: Capstan
49. Artwork: Catacombs
50. Artwork: Catamaran
51. Artwork: Chevet
52. Artwork: Chow
53. Artwork: Christ of the Andes
54. Artwork: Clipper ship
55. Artwork: Clouds - Cirrus
56. Artwork: Clouds - Cumulus
57. Artwork: Clouds - Nimbus
58. Artwork: Clouds - Stratus
59. Artwork: Combine
60. Artwork: Comet
61. Artwork: Compact
62. Artwork: Condor (California)
63. Artwork: Confessional
64. Artwork: Confucius
65. Artwork: Coolidge Tube
66. Artwork: Coracle
67. Artwork: Crater
68. Artwork: Crawl
69. Artwork: Crown
70. Artwork: Crown (Charlemagne)
71. Artwork: Crowned Crane
72. Artwork: Crow's Nest
73. Artwork: Cuckoo
74. Artwork: Curie, Madame

Box 9
Folder -- Contents

1. Artwork: Dagabo, Ceylonese
2. Artwork: Dahabiyeh
3. Artwork: Dandy Dinmont
4. Artwork: Dane, Great
5. Artwork: Dhow
6. Artwork: Diapering
7. Artwork: Discharger
8. Artwork: Dock (Floating)
9. Artwork: Dodo
10. Artwork: Dokhma
11. Artwork: Dripolater
12. Artwork: Droshky
13. Artwork: Dry Cell
14. Artwork: Duck (Mallard)
15. Artwork: Eagle, Golden
16. Artwork: Eclipse
17. Artwork: Electric Machine
18. Artwork: Electric Motor
19. Artwork: Electroscope
20. Artwork: Engine Turning
21. Artwork: Evergreen
22. Artwork: Forge
23. Artwork: Fountain (Ornamental)
24. Artwork: Fulcrum
25. Artwork: Galiot
26. Artwork: Gallinule, Purple
27. Artwork: Genealogical Tree
28. Artwork: Geyser
29. Artwork: Gin Machine
30. Artwork: Glass, Lalique
31. Artwork: Glider
32. Artwork: Grand Piano, Baby
33. Artwork: Graver
34. Artwork: Greyhound
35. Artwork: Groined Roof
36. Artwork: Grosbeak, Rose-Breasted
37. Artwork: Grotto
38. Artwork: Guillotine
39. Artwork: Hammock, Salor's
40. Artwork: Hockey Player
41. Artwork: Hoe, Mechanical
42. Artwork: Hornbill, Great Indian
43. Artwork: Hummingbird
44. Artwork: Hydro-electric Machine
45. Artwork: Hydromonoplane
46. Artwork: Hydroplane
47. Artwork: Igloo
48. Artwork: Incandescent Lamp
49. Artwork: Kettle Drums
50. Artwork: Kidney
51. Artwork: Kiosk (Newspaper)
52. Artwork: Knee Joint
53. Artwork: Kneehole Desk
54. Artwork: LaCrosse Player
55. Artwork: Launce, Sand
56. Artwork: Lens, Contact
57. Artwork: Lie Detector
58. Artwork: Lifeboat
59. Artwork: Life Preserver
60. Artwork: Lock (Canal)
61. Artwork: Lyre Bird
62. Artwork: Magic Lantern
63. Artwork: Martin, Purple
64. Artwork: Microphone
65. Artwork: Microscope
66. Artwork: Motion Picture Camera
67. Artwork: Non-Rigid Airship
68. Artwork: Oil Tanker
69. Artwork: Owl, Barn
70. Artwork: Owl, Great Horned
71. Artwork: Parakeet
72. Artwork: Pekingese
73. Artwork: Penguin, King
74. Artwork: Pentode
75. Artwork: Percolator
76. Artwork: Permanent Wave Machine
77. Artwork: Petrel, Stormy
78. Artwork: Pheasant, Golden
79. Artwork: Pheasant, Silver
80. Artwork: Pimento
81. Artwork: Plastics
82. Artwork: Pressure Cooker
83. Artwork: Propeller, Screw
84. Artwork: Pulkha
85. Artwork: Radial Engine
86. Artwork: Radio Amplifier
87. Artwork: Raven
88. Artwork: Reaper
89. Artwork: Refectory Table
90. Artwork: Reflector
91. Artwork: Refrigeration
92. Artwork: Rigid Airship
93. Artwork: Relieving Tackle
94. Artwork: Rotary Press
95. Artwork: Rotor Ship
96. Artwork: Rowlocks
97. Artwork: Sakieh
98. Artwork: Salamba
99. Artwork: Schnauzer
100. Artwork: Scissors Kick
101. Artwork: Screen (Decorative)
102. Artwork: Seaplane
103. Artwork: Sedilia
104. Artwork: Selenium Cell
105. Artwork: Silhouette (G. Washington)
106. Artwork: Skis
107. Artwork: Sledge
108. Artwork: Smear Culture
109. Artwork: Snow Shoes
110. Artwork: Sound Track
111. Artwork: Soy Bean
112. Artwork: Span (Wing)
113. Artwork: Spirochetes
114. Artwork: Spot, Baby
115. Artwork: Steamroller
116. Artwork: Streamline Train
117. Artwork: Studio Apartment
118. Artwork: Swan
119. Artwork: Sweat Shirt
120. Artwork: Telephone
121. Artwork: Telephone (Dial)
122. Artwork: Teletypewriter
123. Artwork: Termite
124. Artwork: Terrier, Wire-Haired
125. Artwork: Tetrode
126. Artwork: Trailer
127. Artwork: Triode
128. Artwork: Trogon Pavonius
129. Artwork: Turkey, Wild
130. Artwork: Twin-Motored Plane
131. Artwork: Upstage
132. Artwork: Vacuum Sweeper
133. Artwork: Vampire Bat
134. Artwork: Vielle (Hurdy-Gurdy)
135. Artwork: Washing Machine
136. Artwork: Waterspout
137. Artwork: Wave, Damped
138. Artwork: Wryneck
139. Artwork: X-Ray

Series 17: Negative Microfilm (appears to be a portion of a dictionary)

Box 10
Folder -- Contents

1. Reel 1: "A" Folio A-#1 thru #1904 Alert
2. Reel 2: #1906 A/leu/rone thru #3903 aquinas
3. Reel 3: #3904 aquitaine thru #856 Jylland
4. Reel 4: #1 - "B" thru #1698 Berenice
5. Reel 5: #1699 Beresford thru #3593 Box/ful
6. Reel 6: #3594 Box/haul thru #5059 Bz
7. Reel 7: #1 - "D" thru #1830 Dialect
8. Reel 8: #1831 Dialectal thru #3723 Dresscoat
9. Reel 9: #1 - "C" thru #2709 chock/a/block
10. Reel 10: #2710 Chockfull thur #4984 conductive
11. Reel 11: #4985 conductivity thru #7805 czestochowa
12. Reel 12: #1 - "E" thur #1903 Etude