Book-of-the-Month Club records, 1939-1967. 

 - 15,600  items. 61  containers. 24.4  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 3 series.  Series 1: General Correspondence, 1947-1950; Series 2: Preliminary Readers' Reports, 1939-1958; and Series 3: Addition, 1939-1966. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Editorial and publishers' correspondence and preliminary readers' reports consisting of book reviews and evaluations relating primarily to books that were submitted by publishing houses for consideration by the Book-of-the-Month Club but were not selected for distribution by the club.  Preliminary readers include Graham Bates, Rosemary Benét, William Rose Benét, Basil Davenport, Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Gerald W. Johnson, Amy Loveman, Allan Nevins, and Ralph Thompson.  Correspondents include William Rose Benét, John Mason Brown, Henry Seidel Canby, Basil Davenport, Clifton Fadiman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Gilbert Highet, Amy Loveman, John P. Marquand, Christopher Morley, and William Allen White. 
<br/><br/><br/>The Book-of-the-Month Club, founded in 1926, is a United States mail-order business, customers of which are offered a new book each month. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009324 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 79013219  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bates, Graham.<br/>Benét, Rosemary, 1900-1962. <br/>Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950. <br/>Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 --Correspondence.<br/>Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 --Correspondence.<br/>Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 --Correspondence.<br/>Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966. <br/>Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966 --Correspondence.<br/>Easton, Elizabeth Wynne.<br/>Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999 --Correspondence.<br/>Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 --Correspondence.<br/>Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978 --Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Gerald W. 1890-1980. <br/>Loveman, Amy.<br/>Loveman, Amy--Correspondence.<br/>Marquand, John P. 1893-1960 --Correspondence.<br/>Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 --Correspondence.<br/>Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. <br/>Thompson, Ralph, 1904- <br/>White, William Allen, 1868-1944 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature.<br/>Book clubs (Bookselling)--United States.<br/>Books--Reviews.--United States