First Appearances collection
Collection
0007-LIT-RARE
The First Appearances collection consists of over 1,300 periodicals containing the "first appearance," or first public dissemination, of many noteworthy 20th century literary works. Spanning 1915 to 1977, the First Appearances collection contains pieces such as "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, and "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter. Some works are presented in their totality while others are presented... in serial format. The collection is also notable for its early editions of publications such as Time Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic Monthly, as well as more specialized publications such as the Yale Quarterly Review. Authors represented in this collection include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Flannery O'Connor, Gertrude Stein, Amiri Baraka, and more.
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5,963 Items
The First Appearances collection consists of over 5,900 literary works in over 1,300 periodicals. The literary works contain the "first appearance," or first public dissemination, of many noteworthy 20th century literary works. Spanning 1915 to 1977, the First Appearances Collection contains pieces such as "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, and "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter. Some works are presented in their totality while others are presented in serial format.
The collection is intellectually arranged alphabetically by author's last name.
Materials were transferred from Hornbake Library's Ernest Hemingway Collection and Katherine Anne Porter Papers, Literary Manuscripts to form a new collection in 1983. Additional items were purchased by the University of Maryland Libraries from Max Rambod Rare Books on November 7, 2023.
The collection was processed and fining aid created by Laura Cleary and Melissa Lohry in July 2011. The EAD markup was checked and verified using Oxygen software by Jennie Levine Knies in January 2010. The finding aid title and agent links were revised, related accessions related, and series, extent, scope and contents notes, finding aid, filing title, and description rule added by Maya Riser-Kositsky in April 2017. Related accessions were added, related materials were revised, and top containers were added by Maya Riser-Kositsky in May 2017. Additional archival objects were added to finding aid and top containers for those items were added by Eleanor Drummond in January 2025.
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