World Publishing Company records
Special Collections and Archives
World Publishing Company records
Special Collections and Archives
World Publishing Company records
World Publishing Company records
Finding Aid
Prepared by Nancy Birk, January, 1996; Revised by Elizabeth Traina, April 2012; Updated May 2016; Last Updated: August 2020
Inclusive Dates: 1908-1975
Extent: 11 cubic feet (8 record storage boxes, 1 half record storage box, 1 slim document case, 4 flat oversized boxes)
Physical Location: 11th floor and Storage
Storage Note: Part of this collection is housed in a climate-controlled environment off site and requires at least up to three weeks for retrieval. Please call or email the department with requests for this material prior to planning your visit. Oversized items and some photographic materials remain onsite in Special Collections and Archives.
Historical Outline: 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: A 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 acquired 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.
- 1933: Lillian, daughter of Alfred Cahen, marries Ben D. Zevin. Lillian had worked in the company starting as a teenager in the mid-1920s. She eventually became editor-in-chief and helped to lead the company during its most successful years.
- 1935: Ben D. Zevin joins the company.
- 1936: Another building was put up to house the growing plant.
- 1939: The Tower Books series, each title sold 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, children's and trade books were sold to various other companies, and some of these are still in print.
Scope and Content: The records of the World Publishing Company include correspondence, financial records, photographs, slides, and various publications. 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.
Arrangement: The collection is organized into the following series and sub-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
Related Materials: Books printed by World Publishing have been cataloged in KentLINK and can be found by performing a SUBJECT search on "World Publishing Company Collection."
Acquisition Information: 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 Publishing.
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.
Box 1
Folder -- Contents
Series 1 -- Publications: Annual Reports
- Annual Report: 1940
- Annual Report: 1941
- Annual Report: 1943
- Annual Report: 1944
- Annual Report: 1945
- Annual Report: 1946
- Annual Report: 1947
- Annual Report: 1948
- Annual Report: 1949
- Annual Report: 1950
- Annual Report: 1951
- Annual Report: 1952
- Annual Report: 1953
- Annual Report: 1954
- Annual Report: 1955
- Annual Report: 1958
- Annual Report: 1960
- Annual Report: 1962
- Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders, 1963
Series 2 -- Publications: Books
- Publications: Bookbinding Magazine: Aug. 1929
- Publications: Book Jacket, "Rulers of Darkness"
- Publications, Books: "Beyond the High Hills," 1961
- Publications, Books: "The Wardrobe Book," 1952
- Publications, Books: "World's Road Atlas," 1966
- Publications, Books: "World's Road Atlas," 1967
Series 3 -- Publications: Catalogs
- Catalogs: 1945
- Catalogs: 1954
- Catalogs: 1955
- Catalogs: 1958
- Catalogs: 1959
- Catalogs: 1960
- Catalogs: 1961
- Catalogs: 1962
- Catalogs: 1963
- Catalogs: 1964
- Catalogs: 1965
- Catalogs: 1966
- Catalogs: 1967
- Catalogs: 1968
- Catalogs: 1969
- Catalogs: 1970
Box 2
Folder -- Contents
- Catalogs: Spring 1971
- Catalogs: Fall 1971
- Catalogs: Miscellaneous: Fall 1971
- Catalogs: 1972
- Catalogs: 1973
- Catalogs, undated
Series 4 -- Publications: Dummy (Proof) Copies
- Dummy Copy: New Testament, Protestant Version, Presented by the Army of the U.S.
- Dummy Copy: Holy Bible
Series 5 -- Publications: Bible Slipcases (Bibles are cataloged in KentLINK and shelved in the LC-classed book collection)
- Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 1900. C53b
- Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 186 1900 .C53q, first example of gilding applied mechanically
- Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 198 .F811
- Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 .C53a
- Bible Slipcase: Bible removed and catalogued, BS 185 .C53c
Series 6 -- Publications: Our World
- Our World, 1944
- Our World, 1945
- Our World, 1946
- Our World, 1947
- Our World, 1948
- Our World, 1958
- Our World, 1959
- Our World, 1960
- Our World, 1961
- Negatives: Illustrations for Newsletter
Series 7 -- Photographic Slides
- Slides: Arcaddi, Outtakes
- Slides: Bedford outtakes
- Slides: Bindery #2, 1970
- Slides: Casing In
- Slides: Gilding
- Slides: Misc., 1970
- Slides: Misc., undated
- Slides: Printing
- Slides: Werker, Duplicate Titles
- Slides: Werker, outtakes, Times-Mirror
- Slides: Werner/Rebsen 1969, Outtakes
- Slides: World, Times-Mirror, Duplicate Benefit
Box 3
Folder -- Contents
- Record Books: Commercial Bookbinding, 1908-1928
- Record Books: Commercial Bookbinding, Appraisement, 1924 & 1929
- Record Books: Cahen Manufacturing Company, Stock Certificate Repayments, 1911
- Record Books: Noonday Press, Stock Certificates, 1952
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Profits and Losses, 1953-1958
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1926-1930
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1929-1949
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1931-1940
Box 3A
Folder -- Contents
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Satements, 1941-1950
- Record Books: World Publishing Company, Financial Statements, 1951-1961
- Oversized Files: Certificate, Alfred Cahen, 1953
- Oversized Files: Certificate, Western Reserve Historical Society, 1967
- Oversized FIles: Dummy Copy: Webster's New World Dictionary
- 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.
Box 4
Folder -- Contents
- Cahen Correspondence: Misc.
- Pritzer Correspondence: Misc.
- Zevin Correspondence: Bates, Kenneth
- Zevin Correspondence: Crockett, James Underwood
- Zevin Correspondence: Izant, Grace Goulder
- Zevin Correspondence: Lantz, Robert
- Zevin Correspondence: Lipp, Fred
- Zevin Correspondence: The Plain Dealer
- Zevin Correspondence: Sayre, Francis
- Zevin Correspondence: Selby, John
- Zevin Correspondence: Silver, Daniel (Rabbi)
- Zevin Correspondence: Wakeman, Fred
- Zevin Correspondence: Condolence letters sent out on the death of Alfred Cahen, 1963
- Zevin Correspondence: Holiday Cards, sent out either by World or Lillian and Ben Zevin
- Zevin Correspondence: Misc.
Series 11 -- Commemorations (see also: Series 13: Photographs)
- Commemorations: 30th Anniversary, The Commercial Bookbinding Co., April 7, 1934, Program
- Commemorations:Testimonial Dinner Honoring Paul A, LInkert, Hotel Statler, July 18, 1942, Program
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Attendees
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Invitation
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Congratulations
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Response to Invitation
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Letters of Response to Invitation
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Newsclippings
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Photographs
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Program
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Speeches
- Commemorations: World Publishing Company Jubilee Celebration, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: Dec. 17, 1954, Telegrams
- Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Binder
- Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Newsclippings
- Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Photographs
- Commemorations: 25th Anniversary Celebration in Honor of Ben D. Zevin, Ohio Room, Hotel Statler-Hilton, Cleveland, Ohio: April 29, 1960, Program
- 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
- Alfred H. Cahen Obituaries
- Employee Manual
- "A Few of Lillian's Favorite Recipes" Booklet from Lillian Zevin's Memorial Service
- Histories of Commercial and World
- Newsclippings
- "Problems of Connotation in Dictionary Definition," an address by David B. Guralnik to the National Council of Teachers of English, Minneapolis, MN: November 29, 1957
- Bookbinding Magazine (includes an article by Alfred Cahen): August 1929
- World Publishing Company Pension Plan (includes "First Amendment to...the Plan"): Undated, but likely 1965 (Donated by Alfred B. Cahen)
- World Publishing Company Retirement Plan (as Amended December 29, 1955): 1956 (Donated by Alfred B. Cahen)
- World Publishing Company Promotional Book of Matches: Undated (Donated by Alfred B. Cahen)
Box 5
Folder -- Contents
Series 13 -- Photographs
Sub-series 1: World Publishing Company Facilities and Plant Operations
- Photograph: Book sewing machine: 1958
- Photograph: Case making machine: 1958
- Photograph: Case in machines for putting books in covers
- Photograph: Corrugated cartons stored in warehouse: 1958
- Photograph: Cover making: 1958
- Photograph: Cover stamping; Joe Hipps: 1958
- Photographs: Exterior Facilities (multiple photos)
- Photograph: Folding
- Photograph: Folding machine:1958
- Photograph: Forwarding machine moving sewn books to gluing: 1958
- Photograph: Gathering machine, section by section: 1958
- Photograph: Gluing the backs of books before hanging-in: 1958
- Photographs: Applying gold-leaf to the edges of books; John McLeod, William Welsh: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Photographs: Imitated gold-leaf stamped on flexible covers; Joe Hipps: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Photograph: Inspection: 1958
- Photographs: Inspection and packing line: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Photograph: Line of sewing machines: 1958
- Photographs: Rotary Press: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Feeder end of high speed rotary press
- Photographs: Rounded backs and super liner machine: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Photograph: Skids of guilded books: 1958
- Photograph: Plant cafeteria: 1958
- Photograph: Picking orders: 1958
- Photographs: Printing: 1958 (multiple photos)
- Photographs: Printing plates cleaning and inspection; Ben Ogden: 1958
- Photograph: Shipping cartons in warehouse
- Photograph: Tipping; Polly Monrose: 1958
Box 5A
Folder -- Contents
Sub-series 2: World Publishing Company Events and Personnel (see also: Series 11: Commemorations)
- Photograph: Cahen, Alfred (and others): 1955
- Photograph: Charpie, Leonard
- Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Lillian Zevin, and others
- Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Leonard Charpie, William Buckley
- Photograph: Zevin, Ben; Henry Luce, and others
- Photograph: Miscellaneous Personnel (?)
- Photographs: Miscellaneous (multiple photos)
- Photograph: Office Staff, Commercial Bookbinding Company: May 6, 1929
- Photograph: World Publishing Company Retirement Plan Dinner, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 28, 1943
- Photograph: Presidential Banquet, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: May 19, 1945
- Photograph: Golden Jubilee Anniversary Banquet, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 17, 1954 (with caption)
- Photograph: Golden Jubilee Anniversary Banquet, Grand Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio: December 17, 1954 (with caption)
- Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 16-18, 1959
- Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: December 12-15, 1960
- Photograph: Sales Conference, Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio: January 4-7, 1965
- Photograph: Sales Conference, Sheraton-Cleveland, Ohio: December 13-17, 1965
Sub-series 3: Photographs of World Authors (many are inscribed)
- Photograph: Anderson, William R.
- Photograph: Bassett, Jim
- Photograph: Bennett, Paul: January, 1952
- Photograph: Blacker, Irwin
- Photograph: Blair, Clay , Jr.
- Photograph: Bowra, C. Maurice
- Photograph: Breit, Harvey
- Photograph: Brock, Ray (with Turkish Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu and US Ambassador George W. Wadsworth)
- Photograph: Buck, Pearl S.
- Photograph: Cain, James M.
- Photograph: Cantor, Eddie
- Photograph: Churchill, Randolph
- Photograph: Chute, Marchette
- Photograph: Craven, Thomas
Box 5B
Folder -- Contents
- Photograph: de Valois, Nanette
- Photograph: Dreiser, Theodore
- Photograph: Elath, Eliahu
- Photograph: Ellis, William Donahue
- Photograph: Fadiman, Clifton
- Photograph: Feibelman, Peter S.: April 19, 1958
- Photograph: Ferber, Edna
- Photograph: Freeman, Lucy: October, 1956
- Photograph: Harriman, Margaret Case
- Photograph: Haygood, William Converse
- Photograph: Hibbert, Christopher
- Photograph: Hurst, Fannie
- Photograph: Jessel, George: 1944
- Photograph: Kantor, MacKinlay
- Photograph: Kennedy, Jay
- Photograph: Mason, Richard
- Photograph: Meyer, Jerome
- Photograph: Montague, Ashley: September, 1951 (?)
- Photograph: Montgomery, Viscount: 1958
- Photograph: Muriac, François
Box 5C
Folder -- Contents
- Photograph: Nathan, George Jean
- Photograph: Newman, Joe: September, 1948
- Photograph: Peattie, Donald Culross
- Photograph: Rice, Craig
- Photograph: Seltzer, Louis: October 1956
- Photograph: Skira, Albert: December, 1959
- Photograph: Slaughter, Frank
- Photograph: Smith, Lillian
- Photograph: Targ, Bill (William): September, 1957
- Photograph: Tunis, Edwin
- Original Print: Tunis, Edwin
- Photograph: Ullman, James Ramsey
- Photograph: Van Doren, Carl
- Photograph: Van Loon, Hendrick Willem
- Photograph: Warde, Beatrice
- Photograph: Wittenberg, Phil: December, 1956
- Photograph: Unidentified: 1
Box 6
Folder -- Contents
Series 14 -- License agreements, Book jacket requests
- Imperialism, Social Classes (M4) by Joseph Schumpeter
- Creative Invitation in Art and Poetry (M8) by Jacques Maritain
- Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy (M9) by Eduard Zeiler
- The Language and Though of the Child (M10) by Jean Piaget
- Sex and Repression in Primitive Society (M15) by Bronislav Malinowski
- Pragmatism (M16) by William James
- Hero With a Thousand Faces (M22) by Joseph Campbell
- Byzantine Civilization (M23)by Steven Runciman
- Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (M28) by C.G. Jung
- Selected Writings of Martin Buber (M29) edited by Will Herberg
- The Making of Europe: an introduction to the history of European unity (M35) by Christopher Dawson
- Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre (M39) by Walter Kaufmann
- Italian Painters of the Renaissance (M40) by Bernard Berenson
- Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (M44) by Erwin Panofsky
- Freud and the Twentieth Century (M45) by Benjamin Nelson
- The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (M49) by Charles Homer Haskins
- New Poets of England and America (M50) edited and selected by Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson
- Civilization on Trial and The World and the West(M52) by Arnold Toynbee
- Debates with Historians (M57) by Pieter Geyl
- Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (M58) by Harold Lasswell
- Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: an Introduction to Greek Mythology (M59) by H.J. Rose
- Witchcraft (M62) by Charles Williams
- The Disinherited Mind (M66) by Erich Heller
- The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities (M71) by F. S. C. Northrop
- On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme (M84) by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- The Answer to Job (M86) by C.G. Jung
- The Philosophy of Science (M90) by Arthur Danto
- American Foreign Policy (M91) by Robert A. Divine
- God and the Ways of Knowing (M96) by J. Danielou
- Senator Joe McCarthy (M98) by Richard H. Rovere
- The American Pragmatists (M105) by Dr. Milton R. Konvits and Dr. Gail Kennedy
- Aesthetics Today (M112) edited by Morris Philipson
- Hellenistic Civilisation (M121) by W.W. Tarn
- Years of Conscience (M129) edited by Harvey Swados
- Essays on Fairth and Morals (M130) by William James
- History of Anarchism (M133) by George Woodcock
- New Poets of England and America (M135) edited by Donald Hall and Robert Pack
- Utilitariansim (M140) by John Stuart Mill (edited by M. Warnock).
- The Spanish Conquistadores (M146) by F. A. Kirkpatrick
- The European Mind (M152) by Paul Hazard
- Patterns in Comparative Religion(M155) by Mircea Eliande
- Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (M160) by C. L. Barber
- The Drama of Atheist Humanism (M165) by Henri du Lubac
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (M182) by John Locke
- Primitive Art (M185) by Paul Winegart
- Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (M190) by Ashley Montague
- Africa's Search for Identity (M225) by Victor C. Ferkiss
- Beyond Theology: the Art of Godmanship (M237) by Alan Watts
- Annotated Mother Goose (M238)
- The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: patterns of Japanase culture (M242) by Ruth Benedict
- Abstraction and Empathy (M249) by Wilhelm Worringer
- Guide to Fossil Man (M253) by Michael Day
- The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes (M261) by Mortimer J. Adler
- Intervention and Revolution (M269) by Richard Barnet
- The Biology of Ultimate Concern (M270) by Theodosius Dobzhansky
- From the Ashes (M272) by Budd Schulberg
- I, The Aboriginal (M281) by Douglas Lockwood
- Letters to Two Friends (M289) by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Wallace (M291) by Marshall Frady
- Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America (M298) Cahn ed.
- The Annotated Alice (M306) by Martin Gardner
- Mysticism (M307) by Evelyn Underhill
- Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings (M308) edited by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. and Ben Raeburn
- Primitive Christianity (M309) by Rudolf Bultmann
- Existence and Faith (M310) by Rudolf Bultmann
- The Meaning of Paul for Today (M311) by C.H. Dodd
- The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (M312)
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (M330) by R.E. Raspe and others
- Marijuana: the new prohibition (M331) by John Kaplan
- The Conspiracy of the Young (M332) by Paul Lauter and Florence Howe
- The Conspiracy of the Young (M332) by Paul Lauter and Florence Howe article in The Paper, Nov. 4-18, 1970, pg. 10 and 15
- Varities of History (M333), revised by Fritz Stern
- Mug Shots: who's who in the new earth (M336) by Jay Acton, Alan Lemond, Parker Hodges
- Function of the Orgasm (M340); The Sexual Revolution (M338); The Impulsive Character (M387); The Mass Psychology of Fascism (M339) by Wilhelm Reich
- The Heroic Triad (M341) by Paul Horgan
- The Social Sources of Denominationalism (M343) by H. Richard Niebuhr
- Religion in the Making (M344) by Alfred North Whitehead
- Litergies of the Western Church (M345) selected and introduced by Bard Thompson
- A Short History of Christianity (M346) by Martin E. Marty
- The Collected Stories (M347) by Isaac Babel
- The Origins of Totalitarianism (M348) by Hannah Arendt
- The Meridian/Abrams Modern Painters Series: Tobey(M352); Vasarely (M354); Rauschenberg (M356); Albers (M353); Johns (M355); Rivers (M357)
- The Living New Testament (M359)
- A Practical manual of Screen Playwriting; for Theater and Television Films (M360) by Lewis Herman
- The Annotated 'Social Contract' (M369) by Jean-Jacques Roussear
- The Golden Bowl (M382) by Henry James, edited by John Halperin
- A Casebook on Anais Nin (M384) by Zeller
- My Life in Art (M64) by Constantin Stanislavski
- A Cherokee Tragedy (Unnumbered) by Thurman Wilkins
- The Great terror (Unnumbered) by Robert Conquest
- Man and the Biosphere (Unnumbered) by R. Dasmann
- Planet in Peril (Unnumbered) by R. Dasmann
- Views of History (Unnumbered) edited by Stanley Kelley, Jr.
Box 7
Folder -- Contents
- Subject files: Agents, general
- Subject files: Agents: Henry Morrison
- Subject files: Agents: Marie Rodell
- Subject files: Agents: authors lists
- Subject files: Annotated series, Meridian
- Subject files: Book Manufacturers' Institute
- Subject files: Bruce Rogers Bible
- Subject files: Cahen Notching Machine
- Subject files: Colophons from Ben Zevin's files
- Subject files: Contracts and rights
- Subject files: Editorial candidates, Meridian
- Subject files: Encounter
- Subject files: Expense reports
- Subject files: Finances: budget
- Subject files: Financial records - accounts, Counts, A. Frank: 1927-1929
- Subject files: Financial records - accounts-statements, bankbooks: 1911-1913
- Subject files: Financial records - purchase of Britton Printing Co.: 1930
- Subject files: Financial records - receipts: 1916
- Subject files: Financial records - Saalfield Publishing Co.: 1912
- Subject files: Financial records - statements: 1923-1926
- Subject files: Fliers
- Subject files: Fliers: Spring 1971
- Subject files: Fliers: 1972
- Subject files: General: 1966
- Subject files: General: 1967
- Subject files: General: 1970-1975
- Subject files: Glynn, Georgia
- Subject files: Jackets
- Subject files: Legal records, contract, Holmes: 1919-1929
- Subject files: Legal records - opinion, FTC vs. Standard Education Society
- Subject files: Manuscripts
- Subject files: Memorandums, interoffice: 1969-1970
- Subject files: New World Dictionary, folder 1
- Subject files: New World Dictionary, folder 2
- Subject files: Newman, Joe
- Subject files: Plume
- Subject files: Production matters
- Subject files: Promotion - advertising
- Subject files: Proposals
- Subject files: Proposals: Insight books
- Subject files: Proposals: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
- Subject files: Proposals: Pepys Diary
- Subject files: Proposals: Picking Up the Gun by Earl Anthony
- Subject files: Proposals: recorded dialog program
- Subject files: Proposals: The Time of Our Lives by Mortimer J. Adler
- Subject files: Proposals: Apocalypse calendar
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Art in Needlepoint by Peter Stillman
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Broadway by Brooks Atkinson
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Edgar Cayce's Home Remedies compiled by Brett Bolton
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Eisenhower Administration by Herbert S. Parmet
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: How We Live by Penny and L. Rust Hills
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Huac Hearings by Robert Vaughn
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Ideas
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Music Encyclopedia
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Satire: a Critical Anthology
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Churchill: a Study in Failure by Robert Rhodes James
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Where We Belong: the Israeli Diary of a Young American Jew by Steve Felson, edited by Mel Ziegler
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: The Young Years (tentative) by Bruno Bettelheim
- Subject files: Proposals, dead: Your Stockbroker by Lewis Gordon, Jr.
Box 8
Folder -- Contents
- Subject files: Reprints
- Subject files: Republishing program
- Subject files: Republishing program: backlist
- Subject files: Reversion of titles
- Subject files: Rights, return of
- Subject files: Royalty statements
- Subject files: Sales, best sellers: 1968-1973
- Subject files: Sales, projection for 1968
- Subject files: Solicitations
- Subject files: Solicitations, Meridian
- Subject files: Style Sheets
- Subject files: Times projects
- Subject files: Tipping Machine
- Artwork: Ablissae
- Artwork: Abdomen
- Artwork: Alpaca
- Artwork: Anableps Tetraophthalmus
- Artwork: Anchoug
- Artwork: Angel fish
- Artwork: Anise
- Artwork: Ant Bear
- Artwork: Antiparallels
- Artwork: Apse
- Artwork: Apteryx
- Artwork: Argonauta Argo
- Artwork: Argus Pheasant
- Artwork: Artesian Well
- Artwork: Aswail
- Artwork: Baboon (Mandrill)
- Artwork: Baloeniceps Rex
- Artwork: Balsam Tree Cone
- Artwork: Banyan Tree
- Artwork: Baptistery
- Artwork: Bicycle
- Artwork: Bison
- Artwork: Blast Furnace
- Artwork: Bolanius Tintinnabulim
- Artwork: Bombardone
- Artwork: Boss
- Artwork: Bower Bird
- Artwork: Bridge
- Artwork: Broccoli
- Artwork: Bungalow
- Artwork: Byssus
- Artwork: Camera (Lucida)
- Artwork: Camera (Obscura)
- Artwork: Candelabra
- Artwork: Capstan
- Artwork: Catacombs
- Artwork: Catamaran
- Artwork: Chevet
- Artwork: Chow
- Artwork: Christ of the Andes
- Artwork: Clipper ship
- Artwork: Clouds - Cirrus
- Artwork: Clouds - Cumulus
- Artwork: Clouds - Nimbus
- Artwork: Clouds - Stratus
- Artwork: Combine
- Artwork: Comet
- Artwork: Compact
- Artwork: Condor (California)
- Artwork: Confessional
- Artwork: Confucius
- Artwork: Coolidge Tube
- Artwork: Coracle
- Artwork: Crater
- Artwork: Crawl
- Artwork: Crown
- Artwork: Crown (Charlemagne)
- Artwork: Crowned Crane
- Artwork: Crow's Nest
- Artwork: Cuckoo
- Artwork: Curie, Madame
Box 9
Folder -- Contents
- Artwork: Dagabo, Ceylonese
- Artwork: Dahabiyeh
- Artwork: Dandy Dinmont
- Artwork: Dane, Great
- Artwork: Dhow
- Artwork: Diapering
- Artwork: Discharger
- Artwork: Dock (Floating)
- Artwork: Dodo
- Artwork: Dokhma
- Artwork: Dripolater
- Artwork: Droshky
- Artwork: Dry Cell
- Artwork: Duck (Mallard)
- Artwork: Eagle, Golden
- Artwork: Eclipse
- Artwork: Electric Machine
- Artwork: Electric Motor
- Artwork: Electroscope
- Artwork: Engine Turning
- Artwork: Evergreen
- Artwork: Forge
- Artwork: Fountain (Ornamental)
- Artwork: Fulcrum
- Artwork: Galiot
- Artwork: Gallinule, Purple
- Artwork: Genealogical Tree
- Artwork: Geyser
- Artwork: Gin Machine
- Artwork: Glass, Lalique
- Artwork: Glider
- Artwork: Grand Piano, Baby
- Artwork: Graver
- Artwork: Greyhound
- Artwork: Groined Roof
- Artwork: Grosbeak, Rose-Breasted
- Artwork: Grotto
- Artwork: Guillotine
- Artwork: Hammock, Salor's
- Artwork: Hockey Player
- Artwork: Hoe, Mechanical
- Artwork: Hornbill, Great Indian
- Artwork: Hummingbird
- Artwork: Hydro-electric Machine
- Artwork: Hydromonoplane
- Artwork: Hydroplane
- Artwork: Igloo
- Artwork: Incandescent Lamp
- Artwork: Kettle Drums
- Artwork: Kidney
- Artwork: Kiosk (Newspaper)
- Artwork: Knee Joint
- Artwork: Kneehole Desk
- Artwork: LaCrosse Player
- Artwork: Launce, Sand
- Artwork: Lens, Contact
- Artwork: Lie Detector
- Artwork: Lifeboat
- Artwork: Life Preserver
- Artwork: Lock (Canal)
- Artwork: Lyre Bird
- Artwork: Magic Lantern
- Artwork: Martin, Purple
- Artwork: Microphone
- Artwork: Microscope
- Artwork: Motion Picture Camera
- Artwork: Non-Rigid Airship
- Artwork: Oil Tanker
- Artwork: Owl, Barn
- Artwork: Owl, Great Horned
- Artwork: Parakeet
- Artwork: Pekingese
- Artwork: Penguin, King
- Artwork: Pentode
- Artwork: Percolator
- Artwork: Permanent Wave Machine
- Artwork: Petrel, Stormy
- Artwork: Pheasant, Golden
- Artwork: Pheasant, Silver
- Artwork: Pimento
- Artwork: Plastics
- Artwork: Pressure Cooker
- Artwork: Propeller, Screw
- Artwork: Pulkha
- Artwork: Radial Engine
- Artwork: Radio Amplifier
- Artwork: Raven
- Artwork: Reaper
- Artwork: Refectory Table
- Artwork: Reflector
- Artwork: Refrigeration
- Artwork: Rigid Airship
- Artwork: Relieving Tackle
- Artwork: Rotary Press
- Artwork: Rotor Ship
- Artwork: Rowlocks
- Artwork: Sakieh
- Artwork: Salamba
- Artwork: Schnauzer
- Artwork: Scissors Kick
- Artwork: Screen (Decorative)
- Artwork: Seaplane
- Artwork: Sedilia
- Artwork: Selenium Cell
- Artwork: Silhouette (G. Washington)
- Artwork: Skis
- Artwork: Sledge
- Artwork: Smear Culture
- Artwork: Snow Shoes
- Artwork: Sound Track
- Artwork: Soy Bean
- Artwork: Span (Wing)
- Artwork: Spirochetes
- Artwork: Spot, Baby
- Artwork: Steamroller
- Artwork: Streamline Train
- Artwork: Studio Apartment
- Artwork: Swan
- Artwork: Sweat Shirt
- Artwork: Telephone
- Artwork: Telephone (Dial)
- Artwork: Teletypewriter
- Artwork: Termite
- Artwork: Terrier, Wire-Haired
- Artwork: Tetrode
- Artwork: Trailer
- Artwork: Triode
- Artwork: Trogon Pavonius
- Artwork: Turkey, Wild
- Artwork: Twin-Motored Plane
- Artwork: Upstage
- Artwork: Vacuum Sweeper
- Artwork: Vampire Bat
- Artwork: Vielle (Hurdy-Gurdy)
- Artwork: Washing Machine
- Artwork: Waterspout
- Artwork: Wave, Damped
- Artwork: Wryneck
- Artwork: X-Ray
Box 10
Folder -- Contents
Series 17: Negative Microfilm (appears to be a portion of a dictionary)
- Reel 1: "A" Folio A-#1 thru #1904 Alert
- Reel 2: #1906 A/leu/rone thru #3903 aquinas
- Reel 3: #3904 aquitaine thru #856 Jylland
- Reel 4: #1 - "B" thru #1698 Berenice
- Reel 5: #1699 Beresford thru #3593 Box/ful
- Reel 6: #3594 Box/haul thru #5059 Bz
- Reel 7: #1 - "D" thru #1830 Dialect
- Reel 8: #1831 Dialectal thru #3723 Dresscoat
- Reel 9: #1 - "C" thru #2709 chock/a/block
- Reel 10: #2710 Chockfull thur #4984 conductive
- Reel 11: #4985 conductivity thru #7805 czestochowa
- Reel 12: #1 - "E" thur #1903 Etude