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Book review: The Great American Artists Series, Lloyd Goodrich, Albert P. Ryder, 128 pp., 86 ill. (16 in color); Fairfield Porter, Thomas Eakins, 127 pp., 89 ill. [16 in color); Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer, 127 pp., 99 ill. (16 in color); E. C. Goossen, Stuart Davis, 128 pp., 82 ill. (16 in color);
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In 2011, George Braziller retired at the age of 95. His son Michael Braziller of Persea Books, became publisher and editorial director while George's elder son Joel Braziller became secretary-treasurer and director of permissions. With a small team they maintain the Braziller tradition with new
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The new publishing house followed the model of the book club, bringing out works of popular physical and social science, literature, and art, often reviving out-of-print books that found a grateful audience. Braziller soon added new fiction by foreign authors, especially French
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but exceedingly successful, "with a reputation for seriousness of purpose." They then began the "Seven Arts Book Society" in 1951 and in 1955 they began to publish their own books. The Braziller publishing firm is located at 277 Broadway, Suite 708, in
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Sommerville's dissertation, "Commerce and Culture in the Career of the Permanent Innovative Press: New Directions, Grove Press, and George Braziller Inc." (University of Rochester, 2009) is
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to translate it, brought the book out overnight, and we sold 10,000 copies. Just like that we became famous. Those were really exciting times in
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Beginning in 1968, Braziller also published an implicit series of "excellent editions of partial facsimiles" of medieval manuscripts.
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Frank O'Hara, Jackson Pollock, 125 pp., 91 ill. (16 in color); Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning, 128 pp., 161 ill. (16 in color)
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translation, was his firm's first big success in the United States, with an introduction written by
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came out while he was in Paris, and that book's US publication by him was also in 1958.
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interview to "May 1968" must be an error, since Braziller goes on to state that
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Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)
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Braziller was first employed as a shipping clerk, during the
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through the University of Rochester's scholarly repository.
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Book series published by Michael Braziller have included:
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Book series published by George Braziller have included:
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