A privately owned business dealing in the purchase and sale of literary, historical, and art-related rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and original works of art and photography, and in the appraisal of such materials for estate-tax and insurance purposes. A specialty of the firm is representing authors and the estates of authors as agents for the sale of archives.

SELECTED ARCHIVAL TRANSACTIONS:

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 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

In addition, the firm has represented the following parties for the purpose of either estate or insurance appraisal: Advance Publications / New Yorker archive: gift to the New York Public Library The Alfred Dreyfus Collection of Lorraine Beitler: gift to the University of Pennsylvania The Ben Bradlee Archive: gift to the University of Texas Estate of Ralph Bunche archive: gift to the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library Estate of John Cheever literary archive: gift to Harvard University Estate of Walker Evans literary and photographic archive: gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Janice Biala collection of Ford Madox Ford: gift to the New York Public Library Estate of President Gerald Ford archive: insurance appraisal Estate of Mel Gussow: gift to the University of Texas Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. literary archive: insurance appraisal for the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center of Atlanta University Center Estate of Bernard Malamud literary archives: gift to the Library of Congress and the University of Texas Estate of Jack Newfield literary archive: gift to the Center for American History, University of Texas