| Date |
|
|
Event |
|
| 1846 |
January 1 |
Charles Scribner (CS I, photograph
below) and Isaac D. Baker, a New York City dry goods merchant, open their
publishing business, Baker & Scribner, in meeting rooms leased from
the Brick Church Chapel, at the corner of Nassau Street and Park Row in
New York City. Address: 145 Nassau Street (site of the old Times building).
Annual rent: $600.
|
|
January 7 |
CS I and Baker sign contract
with bookseller John S. Taylor to publish his books (i.e., to use
his stereotype plates) at a set price per copy.
|
|
February 3 |
copyright date of the firm's
first copyrighted book, The Puritans and Their Principles by Edwin
Hall (copyrighted by the author on January 13 and transferred to Baker
& Scribner on February 3) |
|
February 16 |
copyright date of C. Edwards
Lester's The Artists of America: A Series of Biographical Sketches of
American Artists, the firm's second book |
|
March 14 |
copyright date of Charles
Burdett's first Scribner book, Lilla Hart: A Tale of New York, the
firm's third book and first work of fiction |
|
April 18 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 2) of Napoleon and His Marshals by J. T. Headley, his
first
Scribner book and the firm's first bestseller, which reached 50 editions
by 1861 (vol. 2 was published on June 1) |
| 1847 |
May 28 |
copyright date of T. S. Arthur's
first Scribner book, Keeping Up Appearances; or, A Tale for the Rich
and Poor |
|
June 1 |
|
Andrew C. Armstrong, who had
been associated with James A. Sparks, publisher of The Churchman,
joins the firm. |
|
June 19 |
copyright date of J. T. Headley's
Washington
and His Generals (2 vols.) |
| 1848 |
June 13 |
 CS
I marries Emma Elizabeth Blair, daughter of John Insley Blair (photograph),
who becomes one of the country's leading railroad capitalists. |
|
September 27 |
copyright date of Charles
Burdett's The Gambler; or, A Policeman's Story, possibly the first
American detective novel |
| 1849 |
April 6 |
copyright date of Nathaniel
Parker Willis's first Scribner book, Rural Letters and Other Records
of Thought at Leisure, Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary
Labor |
|
May 16 |
copyright date of Caroline
M. Kirkland's first Scribner book, Holidays Abroad; or, Europe from
the West (2 vols.) |
|
December 21 |
copyright date of Donald Grant
Mitchell's first Scribner book, Battle Summer: Being Transcripts from
Personal Observation in Paris, During the Year 1848, published under
the pseudonym of "Ik Marvel" |
| 1850 |
November 23 |
death of Isaac D. Baker |
|
November 25 |
copyright date of Donald Grant
Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor: or A Book of the Heart, published
under the pseudonym of "Ik Marvel," one of the year's bestsellers
|
| 1851 |
January 1 |
In consequence of the death
of Baker, CS I assumes full responsibility for the firm; "Baker & Scribner"
becomes "Charles Scribner & Co." |
|
November 29 |
copyright date of Donald Grant
Mitchell's Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons, published under the
pseudonym of "Ik Marvel" |
| 1852 |
April 17 |
copyright date of Hungary
in 1851, With an Experience of the Austrian Police by Charles Loring
Brace, the first book by this American philanthropist who helped established
the Children's Aid Society (1853) |
| 1853 |
November 16 |
copyright date of Philip Schaff's
first Scribner book, History of the Apostolic Church, with a General
Introduction to Church History |
| 1854 |
December 5 |
copyright date of A Cyclopedia
of Missions, Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary Operations Throughout
the World, With Geographical Descriptions and Accounts of the Social, Moral,
and Religious Condition of the People (approx. 800 pp., with maps)
by Congregational clergyman Harvey Newcomb |
| 1855 |
December 3 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 2) of Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck's national work, Cyclopædia
of American Literature (vol. 2 was ready on December 15) |
| 1856 |
February |
publication of The Three
Gardens: Eden, Gethsemane, and Paradise; or, Man's Ruin, Redemption, and
Restoration by Presbyterian clergyman William Adams, a founder of Union
Theological Seminary and, later, its president |
|
March |
|
Impending sale of the Brick
Church property forces Charles Scribner & Co. to relocate; firm moves
to 377-379 Broadway. |
| 1857 |
February 12 |
copyright date of Scampavias
from Gibel Tarek to Stamboul by the American naval officer and author
Henry Augustus Wise, published under his pseudonym of "Harry Gringo" |
|
December 19 |
 CS
I takes Charles Welford, son of a London bookseller, as a partner (their
respective shares are 2/3 and 1/3) to establish a separate company, Scribner
& Welford, for the importing of foreign books. Located in the Scribner
bookstore in New York City, the company also established a presence in
London, England, when Welford moved there in 1864. |
| 1858 |
April 24 |
publication date of Horace
Bushnell's first Scribner book, Sermons for the New Life |
|
May |
|
Charles Scribner & Co.
moves to the Brooks Building at 124 Grand Street (the corner of Broadway
and Grand Street). |
|
July 1 |
|
copyright date of J. G. Holland's
first Scribner book, Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married,
published under the pseudonym of "Timothy Titcomb" |
|
October 1 |
copyright date of J. G. Holland's
Bitter-Sweet:
A Poem |
| 1859 |
January |
1st issue of the first Scribner
periodical, The American Theological Review |
|
October 15 |
copyright date of J. G. Holland's
Gold-Foil,
Hammered from Popular Proverbs, published under the pseudonym of "Timothy
Titcomb" |
| 1860 |
April 12 |
copyright date of Poems,
Lyrical and Idyllic by Edward Clarence Stedman, the first book by this
American poet, essayist, and literary critic |
| 1861 |
|
|
publication of Tropical
Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction by E. G. Squier, American
archaeologist and diplomat, considered the leading authority on Central
America at the time |
| 1862 |
|
|
publication of S. A. Felter's
The
Analysis of Written Arithmetic. Book First, Being an Elementary Manual
Designed for Public Schools, and Containing Mental, Slate, and Blackboard
Exercises, the beginning of his popular textbooks |
|
October 15 |
copyright date of E. A. Sheldon's
A
Manual of Elementary Instruction for the Use of Public and Private Schools
and Normal Classes, Containing a Graduated Course of Object Lessons for
Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties of Children, the beginning
of his popular textbooks |
| 1863 |
February |
publication of Political
Fallacies: An Examination of the False Assumptions, and Refutation of the
Sophistical Reasonings, Which Have Brought on This Civil War by George
Junkin, first president of Lafayette College |
| 1864 |
|
|
Andrew C. Armstrong becomes
a partner of the firm. |
|
|
|
Charles Welford moves to London,
England, to superintend Scribner & Welford's purchasing of foreign
books. |
|
November 25 |
copyright date of Volume I
(The Gospel According to Matthew) of the colossal translating and
publishing project, edited by Philip Schaff, of Johann Peter Lange's A
Commentary of the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical--ultimately
to reach 25 volumes by 1880 |
| 1865 |
|
|
Arthur J. Peabody, nephew
of George Peabody, the philanthropist, joins the firm. |
|
May |
|
1st issue of the Scribner
periodical Hours at Home: A Popular Magazine of Religious and Useful
Literature, edited by J. M. Sherwood |
|
September |
publication of Sanborn Tenney's
Natural
History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General Reader
(with over 500 illustrations), the beginning of his popular textbooks |
| 1866 |
April 4 |
CS I and Andrew C. Armstrong
sign lease for first floor and basement of 654 Broadway, which will be
their location for nine years (through 1 May 1875). |
|
June 12 |
publication date of Arnold
Guyot's first Scribner book, Primary; or, Introduction to the Study
of Geography (his maps had already been published by Scribners for
several years), the beginning of his popular textbooks |
| 1867 |
April 27 |
copyright date of Public
Debt of the United States: Its Organization, Its Liquidation, Administration
of the Treasury, The Financial System by American abolitionist and
banker James Sloan Gibbons, author of the famous Civil War song "We Are
Coming, Father Abraham" |
|
October 15 |
1st issue of the Scribner
periodical The Book Buyer: A Summary of American & Foreign Literature |
|
August 1 |
Edward Seymour, a New York
Times editor and journalist, joins the firm to assume editorial duties. |
| 1868 |
July 13 |
CS I, Andrew C. Armstrong,
and Arthur J. Peabody sign lease for second, third, fourth, and fifth stories
(i.e., the rest of the building) of 654 Broadway (through 1 May
1875). |
|
September 12 |
copyright date of J. G. Holland's
Kathrina:
Her Life and Mine in a Poem |
|
September 20 |
publication date of Le Roy
C. Cooley's first Scribner book, A Text Book of Natural Philosophy:
An Accurate, Modern, and Systematic Explanation of the Elementary Principles
of the Science, the beginning of his popular textbooks |
| 1869 |
March |
|
J. Blair Scribner, oldest son of CS I, begins work in the publishing firm. |
|
March 6 |
publication date of the first
volumes in the "Illustrated Library of Wonders" series: F. Marion's The
Wonders of Optics, translated from the French and edited by Charles
W. Quin, and W. de Fonvielle's
Thunder and Lightning, translated
from the French and edited by T. L. Phipson |
|
April 3 |
CS I, Andrew C. Armstrong,
and Arthur J. Peabody sublet the third story of 654 Broadway for use as
a "Velocipede Hall"--for the exhibition, exercise, and sale of velocipedes--for
a term of one year. These early bicycles were probably models with iron-tired
wooden rims and front wheels larger than the rear. |
| 1870 |
July 19 |
CS I, Andrew C. Armstrong,
Edward Seymour, Arthur J. Peabody, Josiah Gilbert Holland, and Roswell
C. Smith form Scribner & Co. to publish the periodical Scribner's
Monthly. |
|
November |
 1st
issue of the Scribner periodical Scribner's Monthly, edited by J.
G. Holland |
|
December 8 |
publication date of Books
and Reading; or, What Books Shall I Read? and How Shall I Read Them? by
Noah Porter, editor of Webster's
American Dictionary, later president
of Yale |
| 1871 |
May 27 |
publication date of Common
Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, the first
Scribner book of "Marion Harland," the pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune |
|
August 26 |
death of Charles Scribner
(CS I) |
|
November 13 |
copyright date of Frank R.
Stockton's first Scribner book, Round-About Rambles in Lands of Fact
and Fancy |
|
December 2 |
publication date of the first
volume in the "Illustrated Library of Travel" series, Japan in Our Day,
compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor, the series editor |
| 1872 |
February |
Arthur J. Peabody sells his
interest in Charles Scribner & Co. |
|
February 10 |
Andrew C. Armstrong, John
Blair Scribner, and Edward Seymour form publishing partnership to be known
as "Scribner, Armstrong & Co." (the respective shares are 40%, 40%,
and 20%). |
|
February 10 |
Charles Welford, Andrew C.
Armstrong, and John Blair Scribner form partnership to be known as "Scribner,
Welford & Armstrong" to continue the importation of books for a period
of six years from 1 February 1872 (their respective shares are 1/3, 1/3,
and 1/3). |
|
February 10 |
Andrew C. Armstrong and John
Blair Scribner sign agreement with Edward Seymour, paying him a salary
equal to one-eighth of their share of the profits in Scribner, Welford
& Armstrong for services he renders to the company. |
|
September 14 |
copyright date of Henry M.
Stanley's first Scribner book, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures,
and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months' Residence with
Dr. Livingstone, which was sold by subscription (the first copies were
ready in November) |
|
October |
The firm organizes a subscription
department. |
| 1873 |
April 7 |
Mary Mapes Dodge begins at
Scribner & Co. as editor of its new children's magazine, St. Nicholas. |
|
April 10 |
John Blair Scribner purchases
his grandfather's (i.e., John Insley Blair's) interest in Charles
Scribner & Co. and Scribner & Welford. |
|
November |
1st issue of the Scribner
periodical St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and
Boys, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge |
|
November 22 |
publication date of the Scribner
edition of Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates,
her first Scribner book |
| 1874 |
May 2 |
|
publication date of Journey
to the Center of the Earth, the first Scribner book by Jules Verne,
the French author of adventure stories |
|
May 9 |
|
publication date of Personal
Reminiscences of Chorley, Planché, and Young, inaugurating the
"Bric-a-Brac" series edited by Richard Henry Stoddard |
|
August 26 |
publication date of The
Era of the Protestant Revolution by Frederic Seebohm and The Crusades
by G. W. Cox, the first two titles in the "Epochs of History" series, which
grew to 29 works by 1889, divided in two groups: "Epochs of Modern History"
and "Epochs of Ancient History" |
|
December 1 |
Andrew C. Armstrong, John
Blair Scribner, and Edward Seymour sign lease for first floor and basement
of 743 & 745 Broadway (they take possession on 10 Jan. 1875 though
lease begins on May 1 and runs through 1 May 1880), which will be their
location for 19 years (through 1 May 1894).
|
| 1875 |
January 22 |
publication date of Assyrian
Discoveries: An Account of Exploration and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh,
During 1873 and 1874 (with illustrations) by George Smith of the British
Museum |
|
June |
|
 Charles
Scribner (CS II) graduates from Princeton and joins his brother John Blair
in the firm. |
|
Oct. 16 |
copyright date of The New
Day: A Poem in Songs and Sonnets, the first book by Richard Watson
Gilder, assistant editor of Scribner's Monthly |
| 1876 |
April 27 |
copyright date of the first
volume of A Popular History of the United States by William Cullen
Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay |
|
May 17 |
publication date of The
Life, Letters and Table Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon, inaugurating
the "Sans Souci" series edited by Richard Henry Stoddard |
|
November 11 |
publication date of Noah Brooks's
first Scribner book, The Boy Emigrants |
| 1877 |
April 7 |
publication date of Frances
Hodgson Burnett's first Scribner book, That Lass o'Lowrie's |
|
April 30 |
death of Edward Seymour |
|
December |
 Frank
Nelson Doubleday, at the age of fourteen, is hired before Christmas to
work carrying books from the bindery to the packing-room, and leaves twenty
years later as business manager of Scribner's Magazine. |
| 1878 |
|
|
Scribners begins publication
of the "authorized" American edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
(ninth ed.). The concluding, index volume (vol. 25) comes in 1889. |
|
February 21 |
Andrew C. Armstrong and John
Blair Scribner purchase Seymour's interest in Scribner, Armstrong &
Co. and Scribner & Co. from his estate. |
|
June 11 |
Andrew C. Armstrong retires--sells
his share of Scribner, Armstrong & Co. to J. Blair Scribner; sells
his share of Scribner, Welford & Armstrong to J. Blair Scribner and
Charles Welford--to head his own publishing firm, A. C. Armstrong &
Son. Firm names change: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. becomes "Charles
Scribner's Sons"; Scribner, Welford & Armstrong becomes "Scribner &
Welford". |
|
July |
|
Charles Welford establishes
an office in London, England, to superintend Scribner & Welford's purchasing
of foreign books. |
|
July 18 |
The first title to bear the
"Charles Scribner's Sons" imprint is published:
Saxe Holm's Stories
(Second Series) by Helen Hunt Jackson ("Saxe Holm"). |
| 1879 |
January 20 |
death of J. Blair Scribner |
|
February 6 |
publication date of Hjalmar
Hjorth Boyesen's first Scribner book,
Goëthe and Schiller: Their
Lives and Works |
|
March |
|
 Edward
L. Burlingame, a journalist and editor, son of a U.S. minister to China,
joins the firm as a literary adviser. |
|
April 11 |
CS II signs a renegotiated
lease (less costly) for first floor and basement of building at 743 &
745 Broadway for period from 1 May 1880 through 1 May 1883. |
|
April 25 |
Charles Welford and CS II
form copartnership under the firm name of "Scribner & Welford" to continue
the business of importing books for a period of seven years from May 1. |
|
May 17 |
publication date of George
Washington Cable's first Scribner book, Old Creole Days |
|
November 13 |
publication date of Sidney
Lanier's first Scribner book, The Boy's Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart's
Chronicles of Adventure, Battle and Custom in England, France, Spain, etc.,
edited for boys |
|
November 20 |
publication date of the first
two volumes of The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by his sister-in-law
and eldest daughter |
| 1880 |
March 20 |
publication date of Brander
Matthews's first Scribner book, The Theatres of Paris |
| 1881 |
April |
|
CS II sells his share of Scribner
& Co. to Roswell G. Smith et al. As part of the agreement, the
name of the corporation and magazine will be changed, dropping the word
Scribner
or Scribner's, and CS II will not publish a competing periodical
for a period of five years. (As a result,
Scribner's Monthly becomes
The
Century Magazine and "Scribner & Co." becomes "Century Company".) |
|
June |
|
 Arthur
Hawley Scribner graduates from Princeton and joins his brother Charles
in the family publishing firm. |
|
October 12 |
death of J. G. Holland |
|
October 22 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 13) in the "Campaigns of the Civil War" series: John G.
Nicolay's The Outbreak of Rebellion and M. F. Force's From Fort
Henry to Corinth |
| 1882 |
October 4 |
publication date of The
American Boys' Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It by Dan Beard,
the first book by this American naturalist, artist, who helped establish
the Boy Scouts of America |
|
October 12 |
publication of Criteria
of Diverse Kinds of Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism, Being a Treatise on
Applied Logic by James McCosh, president of Princeton, the first number
(of 8) in his "Philosophic Series" |
|
December. 1 |
CS II signs lease for the
whole building at 743 & 745 Broadway for the period from 1 May 1883
through 1 May 1886, allowing him to sublet any unused space. Over the years
space is rented to a millinery and straw-goods business, to the Delta Chapter
of New York University as a meeting place, to The Magazine of American
History, to the publishers Ginn and Company, and to the publishers
the Critic Company. |
| 1883 |
June 1 |
|
Charles Scribner's Sons sells
its school textbook list (Sheldon's readers, Guyot's geographies, Cooley's
physical sciences, Tenney's natural histories, Felter's arithmetics, etc.)
to Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. |
|
March 24 |
publication date of James
Russell Soley's The Blockade and the Cruisers, the first volume
(of 3) in the "Navy in the Civil War" series |
|
October 23 |
publication date of Howard
Pyle's first Scribner book, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great
Reknown, in Nottinghamshire |
| 1884 |
April 5 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 10) of Stories by American Authors |
|
October 18 |
publication date of A. B.
Frost's first Scribner book, Stuff & Nonsense |
|
November |
publication of Scribner's
Statistical Atlas of the United States, Showing by Graphic Methods Their
Present Condition and Their Political, Social and Industrial Development
by Fletcher W. Hewes and Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer of the United
States Geological Survey |
|
November 25 |
publication date of Henry
van Dyke's first Scribner book, The Reality of Religion |
| 1885 |
April 16 |
publication date of Robert
Louis Stevenson's first Scribner book, A Child's Garden of Verses |
|
May 18 |
death of Charles Welford,
who is succeeded by his assistant, Lemuel W. Bangs, as head of Scribner
& Welford, the importing company of Scribners |
|
October 21 |
CS II purchases Welford's
share of Scribner & Welford from his estate. |
| 1886 |
January 5 |
publication date of Robert
Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
|
January 26 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
sign lease for the whole building at 743 & 745 Broadway for the period
from 1 May 1886 through 1 May 1889, allowing them to sublet any unused
space. |
|
April 13 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
obtain certificate allowing them to continue to use the "Scribner &
Welford" name. |
|
May 27 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 4) of Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, edited by
John Denison Champlin, containing over 2000 illustrations |
|
July 14 |
publication date of Robert
Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, one of the year's bestsellers |
|
September 20 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
sign lease for the whole building at 743 and 745 Broadway for the period
from 1 May 1889 through 1 May 1892, allowing them to sublet any unused
space. |
|
October 7 |
 publication
date of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, one of
the year's bestsellers |
|
December 15 |
1st annual Scribner's Magazine
Dinner held at the residence of CS II at 12 East 38th Street in New York
City |
| 1887 |
January |
 1st
issue of the Scribner periodical Scribner's Magazine, edited by
Edward L. Burlingame |
|
May 21 |
publication date of Thomas
Nelson Page's first Scribner book, In Ole Virginia; or, Marse Chan and
Other Stories |
|
July |
|
Edwin Wilson Morse, music
critic and journalist, joins the firm as editor of The Book Buyer.
From 1894 to 1904, he works as an editor in the trade department; from
1904 to 1910, he serves as secretary and a director of Charles Scribner's
Sons, Inc. |
|
October 26 |
publication date of Harold
Frederic's first Scribner book, Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life
in the Greater New York |
| 1888 |
January |
 W.
C. Brownell, a journalist and critic who had worked for the New York
World, The Nation, and the Philadelphia Press, joins
the firm as a literary adviser and book editor. |
|
February 16 |
publication date of The
Tailor Made Girl, Her Friends, Her Fashions and Her Follies by the
American humorist Philip H. Welch |
| 1889 |
October 22 |
publicaton date of the first
two volumes (of 9) of The History of the United States by Henry
Adams, the landmark study by this American historian |
| 1890 |
March 25 |
publication date of Expiation,
the first Scribner book of "Octave Thanet," the pseudonym of Alice French |
|
June 28 |
publication date of Henry
M. Stanley's In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of
Emin, Governor of Equatoria (2 vols.) |
|
September 26 |
publication date of Eugene
Field's first Scribner books, A Little Book of Profitable Tales
and A Little Book of Western Verse |
| 1891 |
January 31 |
Scribner & Welford is
subsumed under the name "Charles Scribner's Sons"; hence, all business
is now conducted under the one name. |
|
March 4 |
As a member of the Joint Committee
of the American Copyright League and the American Publishers' Copyright
League, CS II has significant role in getting the International Copyright
Bill passed this day in Washington, D.C. |
|
April 18 |
publication date of Richard
Harding Davis's first Scribner book,
Gallegher, and Other Stories |
|
June 15 |
The lease for the building
at 743 & 745 Broadway is renewed for two years, covering the period
from 1 May 1892 through 1 May 1894. |
| 1892 |
May 7 |
|
publication of the first volume
(of 7) in the "American History" series, George Park Fisher's The Colonial
Era |
|
November 2 |
publication date of F. Hopkinson
Smith's first Scribner book, American Illustrators |
|
December |
1st annual Scribner Christmas
dinner held at the St. Denis Hotel in New York City |
| 1893 |
|
|
Edward Thomas Lord, New England
agent for D. C. Heath & Co., joins firm to start up a new educational
department. |
|
April 14 |
Court decision protects the
Scribner edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth ed.)
against unauthorized reprints. |
|
October 11 |
publication date of The
White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec, the first Scribner book
by Kirk Munroe, a prolific American author of adventure stories for boys |
|
October 21 |
publication date of the trade
edition of Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (3 vols., with more
than 1000 illustrations), edited by John Denison Champlin |
| 1894 |
May |
|
Charles Scribner's Sons moves
to 153-157 Fifth Avenue into a building designed by Ernest Flagg, brother-in-law
of CS II.
|
|
October 2 |
publication date of The
Woman's Book, Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home-Life,
Self-Support, Education, Opportunities, and Every-Day Problems (2 vols.,
with 400 illustrations) by various authors |
| 1895 |
May 18 |
publication date of Princeton
Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams, the first book by this American playwright,
novelist |
|
May 25 |
publication date of Frank
R. Stockton's The Adventures of Captain Horn, the #3 bestseller
of 1895 |
| 1896 |
March 7 |
publication date of Frances
Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality, the #2 bestseller of 1896 |
|
October 3 |
publication date of George
Santayana's first Scribner book, The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines
of Aesthetic Theory |
|
October 17 |
publication date of J. M.
Barrie's Sentimental Tommie, the #9 bestseller of 1896 and #8 of
1897 |
|
October 17 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 12) in the Thistle Edition of The Novels, Tales and Sketches
of J. M. Barrie, which was completed in 1911 |
|
November 23 |
publication date of J. M.
Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, the #7 bestseller of 1897 |
|
December 30 |
At their Fifth Annual Christmas
Dinner, the employees and staff of Charles Scribner's Sons celebrate the
50th anniversary of the firm at the St. Denis Hotel in New York City.
|
| 1897 |
February 2 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 36) in the Outward Bound Edition of The Writings in Prose
and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, which was completed in 1937 |
|
March 1 |
Joseph Hawley Chapin, art
editor for McClure Publications, joins Scribners as art editor, a position
he will hold till 1936. |
|
March |
2 |
Frank Nelson Doubleday leaves
Scribners to begin his own business, Doubleday & McClure Company. |
|
March 13 |
publication date of The
Man Who Wins by Robert Herrick, the first book by this American novelist,
storywriter |
|
May 22 |
publication date of Richard
Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune, the #3 bestseller of 1897 |
|
November 10 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 16) in the Homestead Edition of
The Poems and Prose Sketches
of James Whitcomb Riley, which was completed in 1916 |
|
November 13 |
publication date of Charles
Dana Gibson's first Scribner book, London as Seen by Charles Dana Gibson |
|
December 4 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's first Scribner book, The Decoration of Houses, co-authored
with Ogden Codman |
| 1898 |
February 28 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 5) of A Dictionary of the Bible, Dealing With Its Language,
Literature, and Contents, Including the Biblical Theology, edited by
James Hastings |
|
October 22 |
publication date of Ernest
Thompson Seton's first Scribner book, Wild Animals I Have Known |
|
November 5 |
publication of the first two
volumes (of 36) in the Complete Edition of
The Works of Charles Dickens,
which was completed in 1900 |
|
October 29 |
publication date of Thomas
Nelson Page's Red Rock, the #5 bestseller of 1899 |
|
December 17 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 22) in the International Edition of The Works of Lyof
N. Tolstoi, which was completed in 1900 |
| 1899 |
March 11 |
publication date of Mezzotints
in Modern Music by James Huneker, the first book by this American music
critic |
|
March 18 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's The Greater Inclination, her first book of fiction |
|
May 20 |
publication date of The
Rough Riders, the first Scribner book by Theodore Roosevelt, the future
U.S. president |
| 1900 |
May 5 |
|
publication date of Unleavened
Bread, a novel by the American novelist and poet Robert Grant which
became the #3 bestseller of 1900 |
|
July 25 |
The American Publishers' Association
forms with CS II as its first president. |
|
November 10 |
publication date of John Fox,
Jr.'s first Scribner book, Crittenden |
| 1901 |
February 6 |
publication date of Henry
James's first Scribner book, The Sacred Fount |
|
March 12 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
form copartnership (3/4 and 1/4, respectively) to continue the publishing
business and determine to carry on all future business under the name and
style of "Charles Scribner's Sons." |
|
June 22 |
publication date of the first
three volumes (of 23) in the "Yale Bicentennial" series, "issued in connection
with the Bicentennial Anniversary, as a partial indication of the character
of the studies in which the University teachers are engaged" |
|
August 17 |
publication date of the Russian
revolutionist Maksim Gorky's Fomá Gordyéef, translated
by Isabel F. Hapgood |
| 1902 |
February 21 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's The Valley of Decision (2 vols.) |
|
March 31 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
modify their articles of copartnership, changing their respective proportions
to 3/5 and 2/5. |
|
July |
|
The Scribner Press begins
operation on Pearl Street in New York City, primarily for the printing
of Scribner's Magazine. |
|
July |
|
 Maxfield
Parrish designs a colophon device for the new Scribner Press. "The Scribner
logo, with its three key elements of burning antique (Greco-Roman) lamp,
books, and laurel wreath, dates back to the Beaux-Arts architect Standford
White's original design for the cover of Scribner's Magazine (January 1887).
The symbol of the book hardly needs to be explained; the laurel crown is
a symbol of the highest achievement in poetry or literature, or the arts
in general, and it is associated with the classical god of Apollo; the
lamp is not Aladdin's lamp but rather the lamp of wisdom and knowledge.
There is a long tradition in art, going back at least to the time of Petrarch,
of a poet being crowned with a wreath of laurel, and such scholars as St.
Jerome and St. Thomas Aquinas are traditionally depicted beside such a
burning lamp" (Charles Scribner III, unpublished memo dated 2 June 1994).
This printer's seal appeared on the copyright page of books printed by
the Scribner Press |
|
August 21 |
publication date of Henry
James's The Wings of the Dove (2 vols.) |
|
August 29 |
publication date of F. Hopkinson
Smith's The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, the first book to bear the
Scribner Press colophon device |
|
November 1 |
|
publication date of Henry van Dyke's The
Blue Flower, the #9 bestseller of 1902 |
| 1903 |
May 29 |
publication date of Thomas
Nelson Page's Gordon Keith, the #2 bestseller of 1903 |
|
August 30 |
publication date of the first
six volumes (of 30) in the Edinburgh Edition of The Works of Thomas
Carlyle, which was completed in 1904 |
|
September 12 |
publication date of John Fox,
Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, the #10 bestseller of
1903 and #7 of 1904 |
|
December 15 |
publication date of the first
three volumes (of 32) in the Kensington Edition of The Works of William
Makepeace Thackeray, which was completed in 1904 |
| 1904 |
January 25 |
CS II, Arthur H. Scribner,
Edward L. Burlingame, Henry L. Smith, and Edwin W. Morse form a corporation
under N.J. law called "Charles Scribner's Sons, Inc.," each receiving shares
of stock in the corporation (1198, 799, 1, 1, and 1, respectively). |
|
February 1 |
CS II and Arthur H. Scribner
sell their copartnership to Charles Scribner's Sons, Inc. |
|
April 30 |
publication date of The
American Natural History: A Foundation of Useful Knowledge of the Higher
Animals of North America by William T. Hornaday, the American naturalist,
conservationist, and first director of the New York Zoological Park |
|
September 17 |
publication date of Arthur
Stanwood Pier's The Boys of St. Timothy's, the first book illustrated
by N. C. Wyeth |
|
November 10 |
publication date of Henry
James's The Golden Bowl |
|
| 1905 |
January |
Scribners brings a lawsuit
against R. H. Macy & Company, the New York City department store, charging
infringement of copyright by cutting prices on its copyrighted books--one
of similar cases, all involving the American Publishers' Association's
attempt to end discounting of members' books. |
|
June 5 |
|
CS II and Arthur Hawley Scribner
purchase property at 311-319 West 43rd St. for future printing plant; the
closing takes place on September 5th.
|
|
October 14 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's The House of Mirth, the #8 bestseller of 1905 and #9 of
1906 |
| 1906 |
May |
|
publication of Charles Dana
Gibson's The Gibson Book: A Collection of the Published Works of Charles
Dana Gibson (2 vols.) |
|
June |
|
publication of the first twenty-three
volumes (of 28) in the Elkhorn Edition of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt,
which is completed in 1920 |
|
October |
Princeton University Press
incorporates with CS II as president. Located in Princeton, N.J., the company
re-organizes as a non-profit corporation in 1910. |
|
October 27 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 13) in the Viking Edition of The Collected Works of Henrik
Ibsen, revised and edited by William Archer, which is completed in
1911 |
|
December 8 |
publication date of J. M.
Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur
Rackham |
| 1907 |
April |
|
The Scribner Building at 311-319
West 43rd Street is ready for occupancy. |
|
December 14 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 26) in the New York Edition of The Novels and Tales
of Henry James, which is completed in 1917 |
| 1908 |
June 1 |
|
The Supreme Court, in the
Scribner/Macy suit, rules against the right of the publisher "to restrain
the selling at retail of books copyrighted under the laws of the United
States, at prices less than those fixed by complainants, and the buying
of such copyrighted books except under the rules and regulations of the
American Publishers' Association." Other legal aspects of the "Macy cases"
are argued till the Court's ruling of 1 December 1913: copyright is not
exempt from the provision of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law against monopoly. |
|
July 29 |
An early morning fire heavily
damages the 3rd and 4th floor offices (home of Scribner's Magazine
and the Subscription Dept.) in the firm's headquarters building at 153-157
Fifth Avenue. |
|
August 29 |
publication date of F. Hopkinson
Smith's Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero, the #6 bestseller
of 1908 and #9 of 1909 |
|
October 8 |
publication date of Kenneth
Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, the first American edition of
this children's classic |
|
October 17 |
publication date of John Fox,
Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the #3 bestseller of 1908
and #5 of 1909 |
| 1909 |
January |
publication of the one-volume
edition of Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James Hastings, one
of the firm's most popular religious reference works |
|
April 17 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's Artemis to Actæon, and Other Verse, her first volume
of poetry |
|
October |
This month's issue of Scribner's
Magazine, containing the first of Theodore Roosevelt's African hunting
articles, reaches a circulation of 215,000 copies, the largest reached
to date by a high-priced magazine. |
| 1910 |
February |
 Maxwell
Perkins starts his career with the firm as Scribners' advertising manager. |
|
February 26 |
publication date of The
Stoic and Epicurean by R. D. Hicks, the first title in the Epochs of
Philosophy series |
|
August 24 |
publication date of Theodore
Roosevelt's African Game Trails |
| 1911 |
|
|
 John
Hall Wheelock, a promising poet, begins work at Scribners as a bookstore
employee. He becomes an editor in 1926 and retires in 1957 as editor-in-chief. |
|
September 30 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's Ethan Frome |
|
September 30 |
publication date of the N.
C. Wyeth-illustrated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island,
the first work in the Scribner Illustrated Classics series
|
|
October |
Princeton University Press
moves into its new $125,000 building at 41 William Street in Princeton,
N.J., erected and equipped with funds provided by CS II. |
|
October 21 |
publication date of J. M.
Barrie's Peter and Wendy (the version of Peter Pan with Neverland
and Captain Hook), illustrated by F. D. Bedford
|
| 1912 |
February 17 |
CS II signs contract to purchase
597-599 Fifth Avenue for new building site; he closes the purchase on March
15th. |
|
June 29 |
publication date of James
Weber Linn's The Essentials of English Composition, which would
prove to be one of the most popular college publications of the Educational
Dept. through World War II |
| 1913 |
March 10 |
publication date of John Fox,
Jr.'s Heart of the Hills, the #5 bestseller of 1913 |
|
March 11 |
At a special meeting, stockholders
of Charles Scribner's Sons, Inc., approved the proposal by its board of
directors to to drop the term
Incorporated from the firm's name. |
|
May |
|
Charles Scribner's Sons moves
to 597-599 Fifth Avenue into a building again designed by Ernest Flagg,
CS II's brother-in-law.
|
|
May 24 |
publication date of Price
Collier's Germany and the Germans, the #2 nonfiction bestseller
of 1913 |
|
July 14 |
 Charles
Scribner (CS III), having graduated from Princeton in June, joins his father
and uncle in the family publishing firm. |
|
October 18 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's The Custom of the Country |
| 1914 |
|
|
Maxwell Perkins becomes an
editor. |
|
April 11 |
publication date of London:
Critical Notes on the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection by
John C. Van Dyke, the first volume (of 12) in his New Guides to Old Masters
series, which he completed in 1927 |
|
April 25 |
publication date of Frederick
Palmer's The Last Shot, a novel that uncannily predicted much of
World War I, the only book about war to sell appreciably during the war's
first two years |
|
May |
|
 Edward
L. Burlingame retires; Robert Bridges (photograph) takes over the editorship
of Scribner's Magazine. |
|
July 17 |
CS II pays $140,000 to settle
Macy lawsuit over the store's right to sell copyrighted books at any price
it wants. |
| 1915 |
September 18 |
publication date of F. Hopkinson
Smith's Felix O'Day, the #7 bestseller of 1915 |
| 1916 |
January 22 |
publication date of The
Book of the Homeless, edited by Edith Wharton. Scribners' profits from
this volume of original and unpublished poetry, prose, and artwork, donated
by well-known authors and artists, supports Wharton's World War I refugee
work in France. |
|
April 8 |
publication date of Frank
H. Spearman's Nan of Music Mountain, the #8 bestseller of 1916 |
|
May 20 |
publication date of J. J.
Jusserand's With America of Past and Present Days, winner of the
1917 Pulitzer Prize for history |
|
December 9 |
publication date of Alan Seeger's
Poems,
the #4 general nonfiction bestseller of 1917 and #10 of 1918 |
| 1917 |
April 14 |
publication date of the first
three titles in the Modern Student's Library:
The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel by George Meredith, Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray,
and The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy |
|
June 6 |
|
Scribners purchases Forbes
& Co., the publisher of Architecture magazine; the August issue
is the first bearing the Scribner imprint. |
|
June (end) |
 Whitney
Darrow, manager of the Princeton University Press, becomes the book advertising
manager at Scribners. |
|
November 16 |
publication date of Richard
Harding Davis's Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis,
the #7 general nonfiction bestseller of 1918 |
| 1918 |
April 29 |
publication date of Jesse
Lynch Williams's Why Marry?, the winner of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize
for drama |
|
June 7 |
|
publication date of War
Letters of Edmond Genet, The First American Aviator Killed Flying the Stars
and Stripes, edited, with an introduction, by Grace Ellery Channing |
| 1919 |
September |
Charles Kingsley arrives in
London to become Scribners' English representative, succeeding Lemuel W.
Bangs. |
|
September 12 |
|
|
publication date of Theodore Roosevelt's
Roosevelt's
Letters to His Children, edited by Joseph B. Bishop, the #3 nonfiction
bestseller of 1920 |
| 1920 |
March 26 |
publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
first book, This Side of Paradise
|
|
September 10 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's Flappers and Philosophers |
|
September 24 |
publication date of Edward
Bok's first book, The Americanization of Edward Bok, winner of the
1921 Pulitzer Prize for biography, and the #3 nonfiction bestseller of
1922, the #8 of 1923, and #10 of 1924 |
| 1921 |
May 12 |
publication date of What
Really Happened at Paris: The Story of the Peace Conference, 1918-1919,
by American Delegates, edited by Edward M. House and Charles Seymour |
|
October |
publication of the first two
volumes (of 26) of the Vailima Edition of
The Works of Robert Louis
Stevenson, which is completed in 1923 |
|
December 15 |
death of Lemuel W. Bangs,
head of Scribners' London office from 1884 to 1919 |
| 1922 |
March 4 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned |
|
March 24 |
publication date of John Galsworthy's
The
Forsyte Saga |
|
September 22 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age |
|
November 15 |
death of Edward L. Burlingame,
first editor (1887-1914) of Scribner's Magazine |
| 1923 |
February 16 |
publication date of Arthur
Train's His Children's Children, the #2 bestseller of 1923 |
|
February 23 |
publication date of Stark
Young's first Scribner book, The Flower in Drama: A Book of Papers on
the Theatre |
|
April 6 |
publication date of Edward
Bok's A Man from Maine, the #10 nonfiction bestseller of 1923 |
|
April 6 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 5) of Sir Winston Churchill's first Scribner book, The
World Crisis |
|
April 27 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman |
|
September 7 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's A Son at the Front |
|
September 23 |
publication date of Michael
Idvorsky Pupin's From Immigrant to Inventor, winner of the 1924
Pulitzer Prize for biography |
| 1924 |
February |
Third floor offices (Subscription,
Magazine Circulation, Supply, and Mail Order Depts.) at 597-599 Fifth Ave.
move to the tenth floor of the Scribner Building at 311-319 West 43rd St. |
|
May 9 |
|
publication date of Ring Lardner's
first Scribner book, How to Write Short Stories (With Samples) |
|
September 19 |
publication date of Will James's
first book, Cowboys North and South |
|
October 15 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 28) in the Atlantic Edition of The Works of H. G. Wells,
which is completed in 1927 |
| 1925 |
January 10 |
publication date of Edward
Bok's Twice Thirty, the #7 nonfiction bestseller of 1925 |
|
February |
 1st
issue of The Scribner Bookstore News, a periodical (pamphlet) offering
a selected list of current books from all publishers |
|
March |
27 |
publication date of James
Boyd's first book, Drums |
|
April 10 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
|
|
October 9 |
publication date of Edith
Wharton's The Writing of Fiction |
| 1926 |
February 26 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men |
|
March 12 |
publication date of Volume
I of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, the #4 nonfiction bestseller of
1926 |
|
May 28 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's first Scribner book, The Torrents of Spring
|
|
July 9 |
|
publication date of John Galsworthy's
The
Silver Spoon, the #6 bestseller of 1926 |
|
September |
publication of the first volume
(of 10) in the Julian Edition of The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe
Shelley, which is completed in 1930 |
|
September 10 |
publication date of Will James's
Smoky,
the Cowhorse, winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal for best children's
book
|
|
October 8 |
publication date of Willard
Huntington Wright's first Scribner book,
The Benson Murder Case,
published under the pseudonym of "S. S. Van Dine" |
|
October 22 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
|
| 1927 |
June 3 |
|
Scribners signs contract with
the American Council of Learned Societies to publish the multi-volume Dictionary
of American Biography. |
|
July 22 |
publication date of Conrad
Aiken's first Scribner book, Blue Voyage, the first novel by this
American poet |
|
October 14 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's Men Without Women |
|
September |
John Carter assumes responsibility
for Scribners' London rare book business. |
| 1928 |
|
|
George McKay Schieffelin,
eldest grandson of CS II, becomes assistant treasurer, moving to the firm
from the Scribner Press, where he had been assistant to the manager. Over
the next fifty-four years--the longest tenure of any Scribner family member--he
will assume greater management responsibilities: 1936, treasurer; 1953,
senior vice-president; 1963, executive vice-president; 1970, chairman of
the board; 1978, director of Scribner Book Companies. |
|
|
|
Arthur Hawley Scribner assumes
presidency of Scribners when CS II "retires" to become chairman of the
board. |
|
January |
 1st
issue of Scribner's Magazine in its new format, with a cover designed
by Rockwell Kent |
|
March 24 |
publication date of Willard
Huntington Wright's The Greene Murder Case (under pseudonym of "S.
S. Van Dine"), the #4 bestseller of 1928 |
|
July 10 |
publication date of John Galsworthy's
Swan
Song, the #3 bestseller of 1928 |
|
July 22 |
death of W. C. Brownell, Scribner
editor and literary adviser, who started with the firm in 1888 |
|
October 26 |
publication date of Italian
Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's My Autobiography |
|
November 8 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 21) of the Dictionary of American Biography, which is
completed in 1937 with the index volume, though later supplements are issued |
| 1929 |
February 20 |
publication date of Willard
Huntington Wright's The Bishop Murder Case (under pseudonym of "S.
S. Van Dine"), the #4 bestseller of 1929 |
|
June |
|
Boston bans this month's issue
of Scribner's Magazine, which begins the serialization of Ernest
Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms, on complaints that his fiction
is "salacious." July's issue is treated similarly. |
|
September 27 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
|
|
October |
publication of the first two
volumes (of 18) in the Peter Pan Edition of
The Works of J. M. Barrie,
which is completed in 1941 |
|
October 18 |
publication date of Thomas
Wolfe's first book, Look Homeward, Angel
|
|
November 15 |
publication date of Conrad
Aiken's Selected Poems, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
| 1930 |
February |
Robert Bridges retires as
editor of Scribner's Magazine to become a literary adviser to the
firm. Associate editor, Alfred S. Dashiell, becomes "managing editor" (new
title) of the magazine. |
|
April |
|
Scribner's Magazine
announces in this issue the offer of a prize of $5,000 for the best "long"
short story (between 15,000 and 35,000 words) submitted by an American
author by September 20th--won by John Peale Bishop's "Many Thousands Gone." |
|
April 18 |
publication date of Russian
Communist leader Leon Trotsky's My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography |
|
April 19 |
death of Charles Scribner
(CS II) |
|
August 1 |
publication date of Will James's
Lone
Cowboy, the #5 nonfiction bestseller of 1930 |
|
September |
Scribners' London office,
having outgrown its quarters in Regent Street, moves to 23 Bedford Square,
the new publishing center of the city, a block or two from the British
Museum.
|
|
September 12 |
publication date of Bernadotte
E. Schmitt's The Coming of War, 1914 (2 vols.), winner of the 1931
Pulitzer Prize for history |
| 1931 |
August |
Scribner's Magazine
announces another $5,000 prize for the best long story/short novel (between
15,000 and 30,000 words) submitted by American writers by 1 February 1932.
Co-winners are Thomas Wolfe ("A Portrait of Bascom Hawke") and John Herrmann
("The Big Short Trip"). |
|
September 11 |
publication date of Caroline
Gordon's first book, Penhally |
|
November 2 |
publication date of John Galsworthy's
Maid
in Waiting, the #10 bestseller of 1931 |
| 1932 |
January |
 1st
issue of Scribner's Magazine in its new, larger format |
|
February 5 |
publication date of Clarence
Darrow's The Story of My Life, the #9 nonfiction bestseller of 1932 |
|
February 11 |
publication date of Erskine
Caldwell's Tobacco Road, his first full-length novel and the only
one published by Scribners |
|
February 26 |
publication date of Nancy
Hale's first book, The Young Die Good |
|
March 1 |
publication date of Marcia
Davenport's first book, Mozart |
|
March 4 |
publication date of Allen
Tate's first Scribner book, Poems: 1928-1931 |
|
July 3 |
|
death of Arthur Hawley Scribner |
|
September 23 |
publication date of Volume
I of James Truslow Adams's The March of Democracy, the #7 nonfiction
bestseller of 1932 |
|
September 23 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon |
|
September 26 |
CS III is elected president
of Scribners. |
|
November 10 |
John Galsworthy wins the 1932
Nobel Prize for Literature. |
|
December 9 |
publication date of Reinhold
Niebuhr's first Scribner book, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study
in Ethics and Politics |
| 1933 |
March 1 |
publication date of Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings's first book, South Moon Under |
|
March 17 |
publication date of Volume
II of James Truslow Adams's The March of Democracy, the #10 nonfiction
bestseller of 1933 |
|
October 3 |
publication date of John Galsworthy's
One
More River, the #5 bestseller of 1933 |
|
October 27 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing |
| 1934 |
|
|
 Alice
Dalgliesh, a popular author of children's books and a former elementary
school teacher, becomes the firm's children's book editor, a position she
will hold till her retirement in 1960. |
|
January 5 |
publication date of Peter
Fleming's Brazilian Adventure, the #7 nonfiction bestseller of 1934 |
|
April 12 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
|
|
July 24 |
publication date of Stark
Young's So Red the Rose, the #3 bestseller of 1934 |
|
October 5 |
publication date of the first
two volumes (of 4) of Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee: A Biography,
the #9 nonfiction bestseller of 1935 and winner of the 1935 Pultizer Prize
for biography |
|
November |
publication of the first two
volumes (of 12) in the Wilderness Edition of the The Complete Plays
of Eugene O'Neill, which is completed in 1935 |
| 1935 |
March |
|
David A. Randall becomes manager
of Scribners' Rare Book Department. |
|
March 8 |
publication date of Thomas
Wolfe's Of Time and the River, the #3 bestseller of 1935 |
|
March 20 |
publication date of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille |
|
September 6 |
publication date of Robert
Briffault's Europa, the #10 bestseller of 1935 |
|
October 25 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa |
| 1936 |
February 1 |
publication date of George
Santayana's The Last Puritan, the #2 bestseller of 1936 (behind
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind) |
|
March 20 |
publication date of Madeline
Darrough Horn's Farm on the Hill, the only children's book illustrated
by American artist Grant Wood |
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April 3 |
publication date of Robert
E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize
for drama |
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April 21 |
publication date of Thomas
Wolfe's The Story of a Novel |
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May |
|
Architecture magazine's
last issue. Merging with American Architect, it forms American
Architect and Architecture, published by Hearst Magazines, beginning
with the June issue. |
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October |
Harlan D. Logan, a former
Rhodes Scholar and New York University professor, takes over the editorship
of Scribner's Magazine; retiring editor, Alfred S. Dashiell, moves
to the Reader's Digest. |
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October |
 1st
issue of Scribner's Magazine in its new format, with cover designed
by Thomas Cleland |
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November 18 |
publication date of Paul Tillich's
first Scribner book, The Interpretation of History, translated by
N. A. Rasetzki and Elsa L. Talmey |
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December 10 |
publication date of volume
20, the last text volume of the original edition of the Dictionary of
American Biography |
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December 29 |
Scribners announces its plan
for the Dictionary of American History, with James Truslow Adams,
historian, as editor-in-chief. |
| 1937 |
October 15 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's To Have and Have Not |
| 1938 |
January |
Harlan Logan Associates, Inc.,
publishes Scribner's Magazine, having acquired the rights from Scribners,
which still retains an interest. |
|
April 1 |
publication date of Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling, the #1 bestseller of 1938 and #7
of 1939, and winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
|
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September 16 |
publication date of Dynasty
of Death, the first book of "Taylor Caldwell," the pseudonym of Janet
M. Reback |
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October 1 |
The Book Buyer, the
Scribner periodical begun in 1867, changes form, appearing for the first
time as a double-page spread in this issue of The Saturday Review of
Literature. |
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October 14 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories |
| 1939 |
February 11 |
publication date of Robert
E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, winner of the 1939 Pulitzer
Prize for drama |
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February 15 |
publication date of the first
volume (of 8) in the Hampstead Edition ofThe Poetical Works and Other
Writings of John Keats, which is completed in October |
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March |
|
CS III is appointed sponsor
for the book and magazine publishing field of advance tickets to the New
York World's Fair, one of 60 leaders representing their business and professional
fields. |
|
May |
|
Scribner's Magazine
suspends publication with this issue. |
|
September 22 |
death of Joseph Hawley Chapin,
art editor of Scribners (1897-1936) |
|
November |
Scribner's Magazine
merges into the Commentator, becoming
Scribner's Commentator. |
| 1940 |
June |
|
As World War II begins, Charles
Kingsley returns to the States, leaving John Carter in charge of Scribners'
London office. |
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September 24 |
publication date of the first
five volumes (of 6) of the Dictionary of American History, which
is completed with the index volume later that year |
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October 10 |
publication date of Robert
E. Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, winner of the 1941 Pulitzer
Prize for drama |
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October 14 |
publication date of Allan
Nevins's first Scribner book, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of
American Enterprise (2 vols.) |
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October 21 |
publication date of Ernest
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the #4 bestseller of 1940 and
#5 of 1941
|
| 1941 |
March 10 |
publication date of Scribner
children's book editor Alice Dalgliesh's
Three from Greenways, the
story of some English children evacuees who make friends in America, the
profits of which Scribners divided between the U.S. Committee for the Care
of European Children and Save the Children Federation |
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July 8 |
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John Carter, manager of Scribners'
London branch, presents Britain's prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill,
the original manuscript of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem "Say Not the Struggle
Nought Availeth," at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street. Churchill had quoted
the poem in hi |
