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Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records, 1930-1992
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Title: Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records, 1930-1992
Dates: 1930-1992
Collection Number: mssMaxwellrecords
Collector:
Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Extent:
3 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract:
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to following
web site .
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole, February 2012.
Maxwell Hunley Rare Books was an antiquarian book firm originally located in Beverly Hills, California and later in Pasadena
and South Pasadena, California. Maxwell Hunley moved to Los Angeles in 1930, where he began his career as an antiquarian bookseller.
His specialties were American and English literary classics, but he also sold western Americana, fine press books, tooled
leather bindings, juveniles, color-plate books and prints. One of Hunley's important early customers was Estelle Doheny. The
majority of his sales were made to institutions, including the Huntington Library.
This collection consists of a ledger recording sales, purchases and expenses for the period 1941-1948; ephemera including
a copy of Maxwell O. Hunley's lease for 9533 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California dated June 29, 1962; and catalogs
of stock from Maxwell Hunley Rare Books.
Hunley, Maxwell, 1900-1990
Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Booksellers and bookselling -- California -- Los Angeles
Bookstores -- California -- Los Angeles
Book catalogs
Ephemera
Ledgers (account books)