Found 3 collections related to Bookstores -- New York (State) -- New York

Personal correspondence between Watson and friends and authors; business correspondence and records; and audio and videocassette recordings of readings at the bookstore and records documenting the events held there and the relationships between the owner, the authors, and clientele. Of note are letters and clippings pertaining to the closing of the store and the audiocassettes of various readings. Correspondents include Ray Blount, Jr., Harold Brodkey, Russell Chatham, Susan Cheever, Carlos Fuentes, Brendan Gill, Jim Harrison, Ann Lauterbach, Ilona A. Vitarius, and Ted Wilentz, Gordon Lish, Tom Wolfe and others. less

John Malone (d. 1906) was an American actor. Collection consists of correspondence, writings and legal and family papers. Includes letters of theatrical people, mostly American, collected by Malone, together with some of Malone's personal correspondence and that of his family; Marcus Moriarty's autobiography of his theatrical career, his correspondence and a few contracts; several letters of non-theatrical contemporaries; materials on spiritualism and temperance; correspondence, 1928, of the Union Square Book Shop; and a genealogy of the Shelley family. less

Kanya Vashon McGhee, also known as Kanya KéKumbha, was the owner of the Tree of Life Books of Harlem, a metaphysical bookstore formerly located in Harlem, New York. His father, Norman L. McGhee Sr., was the first African American licensed to trade stocks in the Midwest, and the first African American to own a brokerage firm and mutual investment fund in the United States. The Kanya Vashon McGhee papers primarily contains materials pertaining to the Tree of Life bookstore, as well as assorted ephemera; certificates; and printed matter belonging to Kanya Vashon McGhee and Norman L. McGhee, Sr. less