Skip to main content Skip to main navigation

Targ Editions Archive

Call Number

MSS.149

Dates

1953-1994, inclusive
; 1979-1985, bulk

Creator

Targ Editions

Extent

3.75 Linear Feet
in 10 boxes

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

In 1979 book editor William Targ founded Targ Editions, a one-man operation that published books by contemporary authors, poets, and playwrights. There are twenty-five Targ Editions volumes, each a limited edition produced by letter press. Targ Editions includes work by Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Tennessee Williams, and Ray Bradbury. The Targ Editions Archive documents the publication of the Targ Editions books, through correspondence with authors, agents, printers, records of financial transactions, order requests from book sellers and collectors, press clippings and book reviews, and production materials such as manuscripts, paper samples, unbound signatures, and author photographs.

Biographical Note

William Targ (1907-1999) was a successful book editor and well respected in the field of commercial publishing. He is perhaps best known for publishing Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather while editor in chief of G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Targ was born in Chicago to Russian immigrants. His name was originally William Torgownik. A high-school dropout with a passion for books and letterpress printing, Targ took a job as an office boy at Macmillan when he was 18. He opened his own bookshop at 22. From 1942 to 1964 Targ worked as an editor for the World Publishing Company, eventually becoming editor in chief. He then moved to G.P. Putnam's Sons where, in 1968, he bought Puzo's novel for a $5000 advance. According to the New York Times, "'The Godfather' turned out to be the most profitable single novel ever published by Putnam's and the paperback rights were sold for more than $400,000."

Outside of the commercial realm, Targ was committed to the art of bookmanship and the ideals of the Private Press. After retiring from Putnam in 1978, he founded Targ Editions, a one-man operation he ran from his home in Greenwich Village. Targ sought to publish works by contemporary writers that had not been previously produced in book form. The twenty-five Targ Editions include works by Henry Roth, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Norman Mailer--each book a unique volume. As Targ wrote for his Targ Editions checklist: "Each of these books is individually designed (no two formats are alike) and they are produced by letter press and are hand-bound. The various printing papers are of high quality, and enduring—mainly of rag, and deckle-edged. The bindings are of pictorial or decorated boards, and or cloth over boards. Each book is signed by its author. The editions are limited to between 150 and 350 copies each." Copies of most of the Targ Editions volumes are housed in the Fales Library.

In his own Targ Editions volume, Abacus Now, William Targ wrote: "Print can be as beautiful as music; it has the power to move, it is as volatile as stage magic. As a typophile and bookman, now on my own, I look more closely into the genius and works of the men and women who enriched our lives with beautiful books. I observe closely the contemporary typographic scene, the people engaged with the magical 26 letters by which we live... I don't think the private press printer will save the world; but I think that if we are seeking the pure of heart and a wholesome commitment, such a person may be found more readily beside a hand press than, say, in an advertising agency or in the House of Representatives--or in City Hall." William Targ died on July 22, 1999, at the age of 92, in his Manhattan home.

References:

Targ, William. Abacus Now: Footnotes to Indecent Pleasures and Observations on Fine Book Printing, Book-Collecting and Matters Personal including How to Survive in the Computer Age. New York: Targ Editions, 1984.

"William Targ, 'Godfather' Editor, Dies at 92.",New York Times. 25 July, 1999.

Arrangement

The Targ Editions Archive is divided into 26 series: 1-24 each correspond to a different Targ Editions volume, and Series 25 consists of various oversize material. The series are arranged chronologically, beginning with Targ Editions No. 2, John Updike's Three Illuminations In the Life of an American Author, and ending with an unpublished piece by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, what would have been Targ Editions No. 26.

Series I: John Updike, Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author, Targ Editions No. 2
Series II: Ray Bradbury, Beyond 1984: Remembrance of Things Little, Targ Editions No. 3
Series III: Saul Bellow, The Nobel Lecture, Targ Editions No. 4
Series IV: Kate Millett, Elegy for Sita, Targ Editions No. 5
Series V: Richard Brautigan. The Tokyo-Montana Express, Targ Editions No. 6
Series VI: Chester Himes, A Case of Rape, Targ Editions No. 7
Series VII: Laura Riding, Descriptions of Life, Targ Editions No. 8
Series VIII: Tennessee Williams, Steps Must Be Gentle, Targ Editions No. 9
Series IX: John Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, Targ Editions No. 10
Series X: Issac Asimov, Three By Asimov, Targ Editions No. 11
Series XI: John Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, Targ Editions No. 12
Series XII: Diane Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, Targ Editions No. 14
Series XIII: D.R. Benson, Irene, Good Night, Embellished by Edward Gorey, Targ Editions No. 15
Series XIV: Marguerite Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, Targ Editions No. 16
Series XV: Theodore Low De Vinne, The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi, Targ Editions No. 17
Series XVI: Jorge Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, Targ Editions No. 18
Series XVII: James A. Michener, Collectors, Forgers--And A Writer: A Memoir, Forward by John F. Fleming, Targ Editions No. 19
Series XVIII: W. D. Snodgrass, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Targ Editions No. 20
Series XIX: Wallace Shawn, Our Late Night, Targ Editions No. 21
Series XX: Norman Mailer, The Last Night, Targ Editions No. 22
Series XXI: Eleanor Sullivan, Whodunit: A Biblio-Bio-Anecdotal Memoir of Frederic Dannay, Targ Editions No. 23
Series XXII: William Targ, Abacus Now: Footnotes to Indecent Pleasures and Observations on Fine Book Printing, Book-Collecting and Matters Personal including How to Survive in the Computer Age, Targ Editions No. 24
Series XXIII: M. F. K. Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, Targ Editions No. 25
Series XXIV: Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, unpublished
Series XXV: Oversize - Series I-XXIV
Series XXVI: William Targ, Secret Lives Manuscript

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of production materials for all the Targ Editions volumes. Materials include correspondence with authors, financial records, production and printing materials, financial documents including purchase orders and press and publicity materials.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Targ Edition Archive; MSS 149; [box number]; [folder number]; New York University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection was donated by Roslyn Targ in 2003 and 2018.

Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Related Material at Fales Library and Special Collections

Fales Manuscript Collection (MSS.001)

Collection processed by

Processed by Melanie Meyers Cushman

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 17:14:36 -0400.
Language: Finding aid written in English

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections

Series I: John Updike, Three Illuminations In the Life of an American Author, Targ Editions No. 2

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of John Updike's Three Illuminations by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Updike, Three Illuminations, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial Records, Updike, Three Illuminations, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Updike, Three Illuminations, March 9, 1979, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original copy, Updike, Three Illuminations, August 21, 1978, 1978

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original copy with author notes, Updike, Three Illuminations, August 21, 1978, 1978

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Updike, Three Illuminations, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon page with signature, paper samples, Updike, Three Illuminations, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings, Updike, Three Illuminations, July 13, 1981, 1981

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series II: Ray Bradbury, Beyond 1984: Remembrance of Things Future, Targ Editions No. 3

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Ray Bradbury's Beyond 1984 by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, 1978-1981

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial Records, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript fragments with editorial revisions and layout notes, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample title pages and text block, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Half-tone screen prints, Ray Bradbury photograph, Bradbury, Beyond 1984, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series III: Saul Bellow, The Nobel Lecture, Targ Editions No. 4

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Saul Bellow's Nobel Lecture by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, 1978-1981 (bulk), 1953 (memo), 1975 (postcard)

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Finanical records, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, December 12, 1976, 1976

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript reprint, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, 1976

Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript revision, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, May 1, 1979, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript with revisions, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample colophon, title page, paper samples, and complete set of unbound signatures, Bellow, Nobel Lectures, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series IV: Kate Millett, Elegy For Sita, Targ Editions No. 5

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Kate Millett's Elegy For Sita by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Millett, Elegy For Sita, 1979-1981

Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Millett, Elegy For Sita, 1979-1981

Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Millett, Elegy For Sita, 1979-1981

Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Millett, Elegy For Sita, November 15, 1979, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Printing specs, sample title page, Millett, Elegy For Sita, undated

Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press clippings, Millett, Elegy For Sita, 1979

Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series V: Richard Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, Targ Editions No. 6

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Richard Brautigan's The Tokyo-Montana Express by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, 1979-1981 (bulk), 1994

Box: 2, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, 1979-1980

Box: 2, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Two proofs, one copy corrected by author, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, 1979

Box: 2, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures and colophon, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, December 21, 1979, 1979

Box: 2, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Printing samples, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings, Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series VI: Chester Himes, A Case of Rape, Targ Editions No. 7

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Chester Himes's A Case of Rape by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Himes, A Case of Rape, 1979-1980

Box: 2, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Himes, A Case of Rape, 1979-1980

Box: 2, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Himes, A Case of Rape, 1979-1981

Box: 2, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series VII: Laura Riding, Description of Life, Targ Editions No. 8

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Laura Riding's Description of Life by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Riding, Description of Life, 1975-1979

Box: 2, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Riding, Description of Life, 1980-1981

Box: 2, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Riding, Description of Life, 1979-1980

Box: 2, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Riding, Description of Life, 1980-1981

Box: 2, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Complete Manuscript, Riding, Description of Life, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof copy with layout notes and revisions, Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 2, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript proof copy, Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 2, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript revision proof copy, Riding, Description of Life, May 21, 1980, 1980

Box: 2, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript revision proof copy, Riding, Description of Life, July 9, 1980, 1980

Box: 2, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript proof with corrections, Riding, Description of Life, July 25, 1980, 1980

Box: 2, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript fragments, Riding, Description of Life, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Final proof with all revisions, Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (red), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (off-white), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (black), Riding, Description of LifeJune, 1980, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (dark yellow), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (bright yellow), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (beige), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uncorrected proof (gray), Riding, Description of Life, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Additional manuscript framents, Riding, Description of Life, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon pages, Riding, Description of Life, June 27, 1980, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press clippings and reviews, Riding, Description of Life, 1973-1980

Box: 3, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series VIII: Tennessee Williams, Steps Must Be Gentle, Targ Editions No. 9

Scope and Contents note

Production material related to the publication of Tennessee Williams's Steps Must Be Gentle by Targ Editions.

Sample title page, Williams, Steps Must Be Gentle, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series IX: John Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, Targ Editions No. 10

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of John Updike's Ego and Art in Walt Whitman by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, 1980

Box: 3, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, 1977

Box: 3, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript with author corrections, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, 1977

Box: 3, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Page proofs on paper sample with layout notes and corrections, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper samples, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Review of Books reprint, Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, February 9, 1978, 1978

Box: 3, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series X: Isaac Asimov, Three By Asimov, Targ Editions No. 11

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Isaac Asimov's Three By Asimov by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Asimov, Three By Asimov, 1980-1981

Box: 4, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Asimov, Three By Asimov, 1980-1981

Box: 4, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Asimov, Three By Asimov, 1981-1982

Box: 4, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscripts: Found!; True Love; The Last Answer; Fair Exchange?, Asimov, Three By Asimov, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscripts: Found!; True Love; The Last Answer; Fair Exchange?, Asimov, Three By Asimov, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript copy: The Last Answer; True Love; Fair Exchange?, Asimov, Three By Asimov, 1981

Box: 4, Folder: 73 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Asimov, Three By Asimov, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 74 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon pages, Asimov, Three By Asimov, April 15, 1981, 1981

Box: 4, Folder: 75 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper samples, Asimov, Three By Asimov, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 76 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Author photograph, Asimov, Three By Asimov, 1976

Box: 4, Folder: 77 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XI: John Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, Targ Editions No. 12

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of John Updike's Hawthorne's Creed by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, 1981-1982

Box: 4, Folder: 78 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, 1981

Box: 4, Folder: 79 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript with printer's notes, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 80 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures and colophon, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, 1981

Box: 4, Folder: 81 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper samples, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 82 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hawthorne portrait reproductions, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 83 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings, Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, July 20, 1981; June 20, 1993, 1981, 1993

Box: 4, Folder: 84 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XII: Diane Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, Targ Editions No. 14

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Diane Wakoski's Saturn's Rings by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, 1971-1982

Box: 4, Folder: 85 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, 1981-1982

Box: 4, Folder: 86 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript and introduction, Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, 1982

Box: 4, Folder: 87 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample tittle page, colophon, and unbound signatures, Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 88 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper samples, Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 89 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XIII: D. R. Bensen, Irene, Good-Night, Embellished by Edward Gorey, Targ Editions No. 15

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of D. R. Bensen's Irene, Good-Night, with frontispiece by Edward Gorey, by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, 1981-1982

Box: 4, Folder: 90 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, 1982

Box: 4, Folder: 91 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, 1982

Box: 4, Folder: 92 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original manuscript with revisions, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, January 27, 1982, 1982

Box: 4, Folder: 93 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 94 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon samples, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 95 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample cover material, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 96 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gorey woodcut, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 97 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sherlock Holmes prints by Sam Green, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, 1981

Box: 4, Folder: 98 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ellery Queen magazine, January 1984: first appearance of Irene, Good-Night, Bensen, Gorey, Irene, Good-Night, 1984

Box: 4, Folder: 99 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XIV: Marguerite Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, Targ Editions No. 16

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Marguerite Yourcenar's The Alms of Alcippe by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, 1981-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 100 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 101 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 102 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, undated

Box: 5, Folder: 103 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Full set unbound signatures, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, November 19, 1982, 1982

Box: 5, Folder: 104 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Assorted unbound signatures, signed unbound colophon page, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, November 12, 1982, 1982

Box: 5, Folder: 105 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Author photograph, Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, 1982

Box: 5, Folder: 106 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XV: Theodore Low De Vinne, The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius, Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi, Targ Editions No. 17

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of Frasconi and De Vinne's The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Frasconi, De Vinne, The First Editor, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 107 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Frasconi, De Vinne, The First Editor, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 108 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Frasconi, De Vinne, The First Editor, 1983

Box: 5, Folder: 109 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Printing samples, paper samples, Frasconi, De Vinne, The First Editor, undated

Box: 5, Folder: 110 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures: first proof, Frasconi, De Vinne, The First Editor, undated

Box: 5, Folder: 111 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XVI: Jorge Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, Targ Editions No. 18

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Jorge Amado's The Miracle of the Birds by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, 1981-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 112 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 113 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, 1983

Box: 5, Folder: 114 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, 1983

Box: 5, Folder: 115 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample cover material, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, undated

Box: 5, Folder: 116 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press clippings, Amado, The Miracle of the Birds, 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 117 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XVII: James A. Michener, Collectors, Forgers--And A Writer: A Memoir, Forward by John F. Fleming, Targ Editions No. 19

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of James A. Michener's Collectors, Forgers--And A Writer: A Memoir by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 118 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., 1982-1983

Box: 5, Folder: 119 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., 1983-1993

Box: 5, Folder: 120 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Title page and foreword, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., 1983

Box: 5, Folder: 121 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Title page and colophon sample, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., 1983

Box: 5, Folder: 122 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Type samples, Michener, Collectors, Forgers..., undated

Box: 5, Folder: 123 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XVIII: W. D. Snodgrass, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Targ Editions No. 20

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of W. D. Snodgrass's translation of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, 1981-1985

Box: 6, Folder: 124 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial correspondence, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, 1983-1984

Box: 6, Folder: 125 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, 1983-1984

Box: 6, Folder: 126 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript (camera ready), Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 167 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript fragments, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 128 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, 1984

Box: 6, Folder: 129 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon versions, Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 130 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XIX: Wallace Shawn, Our Late Night, Targ Editions No. 21

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Wallace Shawn's playOur Late Night by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1983-1985

Box: 6, Folder: 131 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1983-1984

Box: 6, Folder: 132 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1984

Box: 6, Folder: 133 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bound manuscript: The Old Man, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1973

Box: 6, Folder: 134 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bound manuscript: Four Meals In May, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1973

Box: 6, Folder: 135 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bound manuscript: Aunt Dan and Lemon, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1984

Box: 6, Folder: 136 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample title page, Shawn, Our Late Night, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 137 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colophon samples, Shawn, Our Late Night, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 138 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signature, Shawn, Our Late Night, undated

Box: 6, Folder: 139 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Prints and clippings, Shawn, Our Late Night, 1975-1986

Box: 6, Folder: 140 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XX: Norman Mailer, The Last Night, Targ Editions No. 22

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Norman Mailer's story The Last Night by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Mailer, The Last Night, 1977-1983

Box: 7, Folder: 141 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Mailer, The Last Night, 1983-1984

Box: 7, Folder: 142 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Mailer, The Last Night, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 143 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original story, Mailer, The Last Night, 1962

Box: 7, Folder: 144 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sample title page, paper sample with title page measurements, Mailer, The Last Night, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 145 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, Mailer, The Last Night, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 146 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures with Targ correction, Mailer, The Last Night, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 147 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press clippings, Mailer, The Last Night, 1983-1984

Box: 7, Folder: 148 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XXI: Eleanor Sullivan, Whodunit: A Biblio-Bio-Anecdotal Memoir of Frederic Dannay, Targ Editions No. 23

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of Eleanor Sullivan's Whodunit by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Sullivan, Dannay, Whodunit, 1979-1991

Box: 7, Folder: 149 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial correspondence, Sullivan, Whodunit, 1984-1985

Box: 7, Folder: 150 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Sullivan, Whodunit, 1984-1985

Box: 7, Folder: 151 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript fragments, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 152 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper sample, sample title page, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 153 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ellery Queen sketches, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 154 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 155 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings and bibliographies, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 156 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous clippings, Sullivan, Whodunit, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 157 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Silver Anniversary Tribute to Ellery Queen, Sullivan, Whodunit, 1954

Box: 7, Folder: 158 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XXII: William Targ, Abacus Now: Footnotes to Indecent Pleasures and Observations on Fine Book Printing, Book-Collecting and Matters Personal including How to Survive in the Computer Age, Targ Editions No. 24

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the publication of William Targ's Abacus Now by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Targ, Abacus Now, 1983-1988

Box: 7, Folder: 159 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Targ, Abacus Now, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 160 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Targ, Abacus Now, 1984-1985

Box: 7, Folder: 161 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Writings, essays, and revisions, Targ, Abacus Now, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 162 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures with corrections, Targ, Abacus Now, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 163 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures and plates, Targ, Abacus Now, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 164 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper, color, and type samples, Targ, Abacus Now, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 165 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof with sample paper and boards, Targ, Abacus Now, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 166 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XXIII: M. F. K. Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, Targ Editions No. 25

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of M. F. K. Fisher's Spirits of the Valley by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, 1985-1987

Box: 7, Folder: 167 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, 1985

Box: 7, Folder: 168 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, 1985

Box: 7, Folder: 169 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unbound signatures, colophon sample, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, 1985

Box: 7, Folder: 170 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper samples, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 171 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press clippings, Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, 1984-1985

Box: 7, Folder: 172 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XXIV: Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, unpublished

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and production materials related to the preparation of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's The Solitude of Latin America for publication by Targ Editions.

Correspondence, Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, 1983-1990

Box: 7, Folder: 173 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial records, Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, 1983

Box: 7, Folder: 174 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orders, Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, 1983

Box: 7, Folder: 175 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manuscript and sample title page, Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, 1982, 1984

Box: 7, Folder: 176 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oversize - Series I-XXIV

Scope and Contents note

Oversize correspondence, production materials, and press related to the publication of various Targ Editions volumes.

Proof with corrections, Henry Roth, Nature's First Green, Targ Editions No. 1, February 15, 1979, 1979

Box: 8, Folder: 177 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Times Book Review clipping, inscribed by John Updike, Three Illuminations..., Targ Editions No. 2, June 20, 1993, 1993

Box: 8, Folder: 178 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Complete proof and assorted fragments, John Updike, Three Illuminations..., Targ Editions No. 2, March 21, 1979, 1979

Box: 8, Folder: 179 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Complete proof and assorted fragments with corrections, Ray Bradbury, Beyond 1984, Targ Editions No. 3, April 16,1979, 1979

Box: 8, Folder: 180 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof fragments, proof, and original lecture, Saul Bellow, "Nobel Speech", Targ Editions No. 4, 1979

Box: 8, Folder: 181 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof of title page with revisions, and sample boards, Kate Millett, Elegy For Sita, Targ Editions No. 5, 1979

Box: 8, Folder: 182 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Board sample, Laura Riding, Discription of Life, Targ Editions No. 8, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 183 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proofs with corrections, John Updike, Ego and Art in Walt Whitman, Targ Editions No. 10, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 184 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proofs with revisions and correction, John Updike, Hawthorne's Creed, Targ Editions No. 12, April 23, 1981, 1981

Box: 8, Folder: 185 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proofs with corrections and letter from Diane Wakoski, Saturn's Rings, Targ Editions No. 14, February 2, 1982, 1982

Box: 9, Folder: 186 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Corrected proof, final proof, D.R. Bensen, Edward Gorey,Irene, Good-Night, Targ Editions No. 15, March 2, 1982, 1982

Box: 9, Folder: 187 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proofs with corrections and comments, Marguerite Yourcenar, The Alms of Alcippe, Targ Editions No. 16, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 188 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof with corrections, original woodcut, Antonio Frasconi, Theodore De Vinne, The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius, Targ Editions No. 17, 1982

Box: 9, Folder: 189 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof fragments with corrections, James A. Michener Collectors, Forgers..., Targ Editions No. 19, 1983

Box: 9, Folder: 190 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof, W.D. Snodgrass, The Four Seasons, Targ Editions No. 20, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 191 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Print of still from performance, proof of colophon with corrections, Wallace Shawn, Our Late Night, Targ Editions No. 21, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 192 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Two proofs with corrections, Norman Mailer, The Last Night, Targ Editions No. 22, December 30, 1983, 1983

Box: 9, Folder: 193 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Assorted proof pages and illustrations, William Targ, Abacus Now, Targ Editions No. 24, undated

Box: 9, Folder: 194 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proofs with corrections, M.F.K. Fisher, Spirits of the Valley, Targ Editions No. 25, 1985

Box: 9, Folder: 195 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proof sheets, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America, unpublished, 1984

Box: 9, Folder: 196 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series XXVI: William Targ, Secret Lives, 1983-03

Secret Lives Manuscript, 1983-03

Box: 10, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012