Wise men fished here
Subtitle: a centennial exhibition in honor of the Gotham Book Mart : 1920-2020
By: David McKnight, curator ; Katherine Aid, assistant curator; Camille Davis, assistant curator
Contributors: Aid, Katherine, active 2019, co-curator; Camden, Beth Picknally, active 2019, co-author; Constantinou, Constantia, active 2019, contributor; Davis, Camille, active 2019, co-curator; Fisher, Janice, active 2019, copy editor; Gottschalk, Andrea, active 2019, book designer; Varela, Elsa, active 2019, co-author; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania Libraries); University of Pennsylvania. Libraries; Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania); The YGS Group (Firm)
Edition: First edition 2019.
Publisher: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, PA
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780990448754
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; History; Bookstores; Booksellers and bookselling; Women booksellers; Gotham Book Mart
Description: "In 2008, the University of Pennsylvania received as a gift the contents of the Gotham Book Mart, the legendary New York City bookstore founded by Frances Steloff in 1920. For decades the Gotham Book Mart was, as Steloff prosaically put it, 'the headquarters of the avant-garde.' To mark the 100th anniversary of the store's founding, this exhibition catalogue explores the shop's role in assembling, publishing, and promoting groundbreaking experimental writers as well as its later years under the ownership of Steloff's hand-chosen succesor, Andreas Brown" -- cover.
Notes: "Published by University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104"; title page verso.

Copyright held by: "© 2019 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved"; title page verso.

"This catalogue was published by the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with the exhibit: "Wise Men Fished Here : A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart 1920-2020." University of Pennsylvania Libraries Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kamin and Goldstein Family Galleries February 18 through May 20, 2019"; page [iiii] and back cover end flap.

Edition statement; title page verso.

"Catalogue design: Andrea Gottschalk Copy editor: Janice Fisher Printer: The YGS Group, York, PA Fonts: Belleza and Open Sans"; title page verso.

Errata slip laid in.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; American Institute of Graphic Arts; 2020.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Constantia Constantinou; title: Introduction  -- David McKnight; title: Wise men fished here: a centennial exhibtion  -- David McKnight; title: Beginings  -- David McKnight; title: We moderns: making it new  -- David McKnight; title: Surrealism and the 1940s  -- David McKnight; title: Black Sun Press  -- David McKnight; title: The beats  -- David McKnight; title: The New York school  -- David McKnight; title: The seventies  -- David McKnight; title: Little magazines, portfolios, and small presses  -- David McKnight; title: Gotham Book Mart as publisher  -- Camille Davis; title: Wish you were here: the postcard collection  -- Katherine Aid; title: The enigmatic Edward Gorey -- Katherine Aid; title: Endings  -- David McKnight; title: Appendices -- I. Processing a massive gift collection with a streamlined workflow  -- Elsa Varela and Beth Picknally Camden; title: II. Gotham Book Mart bibliography  -- Camille Davis; title: Acknowledgments -- David McKnight.