A specialty of the firm is representing authors, artists, musicians, designers, and photographers, and their estates as agents for the sale of archives. The following transactions were shepherded to completion by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.
| Julia Alvarez | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Ti-Grace Atkinson | sale of feminist archive to the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University |
| W.H. Auden | sale of archive of John Auden to the New York Public Library |
| Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) | sale of early scripts to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library |
| Samuel Beckett | sale of Richard Seaver – Merlin archive to the University of Texas |
| John Boorman | sale of papers and film archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| T.C. Boyle | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Maeve Brennan | sale of literary archive to Emory University |
| Harold Brodkey | sale of literary archive to Harvard University |
| Peter Carey | sale of literary archive to a private collector, for gift to New York Public Library |
| John Casey | sale of literary archive to the University of Virginia |
| John Cheever | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Winston Churchill | sale of Martin Gilbert’s research papers to the Forbes Magazine Collection |
| Amy Clampitt | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Harold Clurman and Stella Adler | sale of theater archive, correspondence, and teaching archive to the University of Texas |
| J.M. Coetzee | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| John Collins/Bobby Fischer | sale of chess archive and teaching material to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Don DeLillo | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Ophelia DeVore | sale of African-American modeling and business archive to Emory University |
| Annie Dillard | sale of literary archive to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| Alfred Dreyfus | sale of Forzinetti archive on “The Affair” to University of Texas |
| Bob Dylan | sale of archive to the University of Tulsa |
| Leon Edel | sale of literary archive to McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| Deborah Eisenberg | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| T.S Eliot | sale of correspondence about “The Waste Land” to Dial Magazine to the University of Texas |
| Elliot Erwitt | sale of photographic archive to Millennium Capital |
| William Faulkner | sale of literary archive to the University of Virginia |
| Danny Fields | sale of counter-culture archive to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| Frederick Forsyth | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Lukas Foss | sale of musical archive to the Library of Congress |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | sale of literary archive to Stanford University |
| Gabriel García Márquez | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| John Gardner | sale of literary archive to the University of Rochester |
| Tony Geiss | sale of Sesame Street archive to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| Nadine Gordimer | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Spalding Gray | sale of archive to the University of Texas |
| Edith Grossman | sale of translation archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Philip Grushkin | sale of design archive to Columbia University |
| Woody Guthrie | sale of archive to the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Joseph Heller | sale of literary archive to the University of South Carolina |
| Lillian Hoban | sale of illustration archive to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| John Irving | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Henry James | sale of his letters and manuscripts from the library of Leon Edel to Pierpont Morgan Library |
| Erica Jong | sale of literary archive to Columbia University |
| Kenneth Koch | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Timothy Leary | sale of scientific and literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Philip Levine | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| David Levinthal | sale of photographic archive to Millennium Capital |
| Jackson Mac Low | sale of archive to the University of California, San Diego |
| Magnum Photo Cooperative | sale of photographic archive to MSD Capital |
| Norman Mailer | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Bernard Malamud | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| David Mamet | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Herbert Matter | sale of design and photograph archive to Stanford University |
| Albert and David Maysles | sale of film archive to Columbia University |
| Cormac McCarthy | sale of literary archive to Texas State University |
| James Merrill | sale of his executor’s library and archive to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| W.S. Merwin | sale of literary archive to the University of Illinois |
| Albert Murray | sale of literary archive to the Houghton Library, Harvard University |
| Vladimir Nabokov | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Harold Nicolson | sale of diplomatic correspondence to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| Tim O’Brien | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Sean O’Casey | sale of literary archive to the National Library of Ireland |
| Frank O’Connor | sale of literary archive to the University of Florida |
| George Oppen | sale of literary archive to the University of California in San Diego |
| The Paris Review | sale of literary archive to the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| Marge Piercy | sale of literary archive to the University of Michigan |
| Thomas Pynchon | sale of early Cornell manuscripts and letters to the University of Texas |
| Nicholas Ray | sale of film archive to the University of Texas |
| Marilynne Robinson | sale of literary papers to the Beinecke Library, Yale University |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | sale of historical archive of Grace Tully to Conrad Black |
| Ned Rorem | sale of musical and literary archive to the Library of Congress |
| Harold Rosenberg | sale of art historical archive to the Getty Institute |
| A.M. Rosenthal | sale of New York Times archive to the New York Public Library |
| James Salter | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Ousmane Sembène | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Charles Simic | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Ted Solotaroff | sale of Philip Roth papers to the New York Public Library |
| John Steinbeck | sale of correspondence with Pascal Covici to the University of Texas |
| Gerd Stern | sale of USCO lighting archive to University of California, Berkeley |
| Tom Stoppard | sale of early working papers to the University of Texas |
| Mark Strand | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Dan Talbot | sale of film distribution archive to Columbia University |
| Hunter S. Thompson | sale of literary archive to Johnny Depp |
| B. Traven | sale of literary archive to the University of California at Riverside |
| P.L. Travers | sale of correspondence archive with American literary agent to the Pierpont Morgan Library |
| John Updike | sale of literary archive to Harvard University |
| Amos Vogel | sale of film history archive to Columbia University |
| Kurt Vonnegut | sale of literary archive to the Lilly Library, Indiana University |
| Alice Walker | sale of literary archive to Emory University |
| David Foster Wallace | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Elie Wiesel | sale of literary and historical archive to Boston University |
| Miller Williams | sale of literary archive to the University of Texas |
| Tennessee Williams | sale of literary papers to Columbia University |
| Tom Wolfe | sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library |
| Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | sale of Watergate Papers to the University of Texas |
Archives
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. is an agent in the sale and placement of culturally significant archives to research institutions nationwide. A full list can be found here.
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