Finding Aid for the collection of Avon Books LSC.0427
Finding aid prepared by Jain Fletcher and Josh Fiala; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Finding aid last updated in 1999.
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of Avon Books
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0427
Physical Description:
26.0 Linear Feet
(52 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1930-1969
Date (bulk): 1960-1969
Abstract: Collection consists of an archive set up by the UCLA Library of all the books published by the Avon Book Division of the Hearst
Corporation, beginning with March 1960.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Hearst Corporation.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Avon Books (Collection Number 427). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
The Avon Books Collection (Coll. 427) was begun by Special Collections in earnest in 1960, after the Hearst Corporation took
over the Avon imprint. Collecting continued at least through 1969, with help, at least in part, from the publishers themselves.
The collection also includes a number of Avon Books acquired from other sources prior to 1960, some as early as the 1930s.
The alpha-numeric list below represents Avon's attempts to make discrete "series" through means of an alpha-numeric code,
even though the nature of the coding is not always clear (in the early days, it was thought that the "G" stood for "giant";
indeed, the books with this alpha-prefix are indeed somewhat more serious than the general Avon content). All of the books
have now been individually cataloged on Voyager, on Bib ID 4232705.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of an archive set up by the UCLA Library of all the books published by the Avon Books Division of the
Hearst Corporation, beginning with Mar. 1960. Also includes a number of Avon Books acquired from other sources prior to that
date, some as early as the 1930s. Titles include John Haase's
The young who sin, Robert Payne's
The blue Negro, Henry Miller's
The air-conditioned nightmare, and Kenneth Rexroth's
Classics revisited.
Organization and Arrangement
Collection is arranged by the publisher's alpha-numeric series designations.
Organization - mostly in alpha-numeric order per the series designation on spine.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Avon Books.
box 2
Pre-Hearst Corp. items; T397-412
box 25
Bard series: (in numerical order:) T07, T09, G10, 11, T12, G13; S101-120
box 48
Poster (36 × 24") advertising a book by Patrick Dennis
box 49
W157-163; CS2; GS1-7, 11, 13, 16; NS1-14
box 50
NS15-22, 25-27, 29, 35, 39, 42-43; QS1-2, 4, 7, 9; SS3-10
box 51
SS11-12, 14-17; VS1, 4-7, 13, 16-18, 21
box 52
VS22-23, 27, 29; YN235-236; YQ10; ZN143, 149; ZS101, 105-107, 111-117, 119-120
box 53
ZS121, 124, 127-128, 131, 133-136, 139, 141, 146, 148, 150-151, 156, 158, 161, 163; ZV125, 140, 145, 153-155, 157, 164
