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305 Roth Imprints and Business Names Roth Imprints (1919–1966) This preliminary and tentative list of the various imprints Roth used on the title pages of his books was compiled from various sources. The imprints are listed in chronological order. Please note that these are imprints, not trade names, which are much more numerous. The Library of Congress catalogue records were extremely helpful in making this checklist , as were the WorldCat online database and the titles in the Roth Archive at Columbia University and in the New York Public Library Research Division printed catalogues. Also important were the comments of booksellers, and colleagues and relatives of Roth: C. J. Scheiner, Arnold Levy, Anton Gud, William Ryan, Adelaide Kugel. The essays on Roth by Ryan and Hamalian cite many titles and imprints, as do the Kefauver Hearings (“U.S. Senate . Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary”), although Roth denied having anything to do with several of them, and the following court cases: Samuel Roth v. Albert Goldman, U.S. Court of Appeals (1949); United States v. Samuel Roth, C-53-79 (1929); United States v. Samuel Roth, Cr 148-9 (both the original and appellate cases, 1956 and 1959); United States v. Pauline Roth and Samuel Roth, C99-114 (1936). The Vertical File of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research (s.v. “Erotica Producers, Twentieth Century, United States, Roth, Samuel”), in Bloomington, Indiana, has many of Roth’s circulars from the 1950s, which are useful in corroborating titles of books he published, although the circulars list books for sale, including remainders from other publishers, as well as his own imprints. Extensive holdings of Roth imprints are found at the Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), the Morris Library of Southern Illinois University, and the Library of Congress. Roth’s bookselling and publishing career evinces many complex and interesting bibliographical problems that can only be implied in this list. The large number of separate imprints is due to various factors, among which are the ebb and flow of his financial situation, his desire to publish various kinds of books for various audiences, and the need to counter both the interception of certain titles by the Post Office and the reluctance of newspapers and magazines to accept advertisements. In a few cases, legal injunctions regarding subject matter necessitated new imprints. aPPendiX 306 Appendix The imprints are listed chronologically, each entry beginning with the books issued in the first year the imprint began publishing. I have provided each publication (several titles were reprinted under more than one imprint) with a number. These numbers run consecutively. Lyric Publishing Company (1919) Roth continued this imprint name when he reestablished The Lyric on his own. It had been used for the 1917 and 1918 issues of a Little Magazine under the auspices of Columbia University. The second number of volume 2 (January 1918) gave the address of the publisher as 1353 Clinton Avenue, the first of Roth and Pauline’s two Bronx addresses after their marriage. After the war they resided at 1425 Grand Concourse. There were five numbers of volume 3, the first being issued January 1919 and the last May–June 1919. The first and second numbers of volume 4 were issued as a double number from Roth’s Poetry Book Shop at 49 West Eighth Street and dated July–August 1919. There were no more issues after 1919. 1. The Lyric (magazine) (1919) The Poetry Book Shop (1920) The Poetry Book Shop issued supplements to The Lyric as follows. It is possible, as Adelaide Kugel states, that numbers 2 and 4 were never issued (carton 51, s.v. “1919,” Roth Archive). 2. Bellamann, Henry. A Music Teacher’s Note Book (1920). The Sign of the Lyre series, no. 3. 3. Gorman, Herbert S. The Fool of Love (1920). The Sign of the Lyre series, no. 2. 4. Long, Haniel. Students (1920). The Sign of the Lyre series, no. 4. 5. Reznikoff, Charles. Poems (1920). The Sign of the Lyre series, no. 1. 6. Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Lancelot: A Poem. New York: Seltzer, 1920. Roth stated that he arranged to have 400 copies run off for him, to commemorate the poem’s winning The Lyric Society’s $500 poetry prize. The following may have been published with subvention from the author: 7. Bell, Ralcy Husted. Her New Lovers (1919) 8. Connell, Harriett. The Song of the Waukarusa: A Book of Love (1920) 9. Crane, Elizabeth. Poems (1920) 10...

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