Credentials and Qualifications : 1979 - present
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. is 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. The following transactions were shepherded to completion by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.: W.H. Auden: sale of archive of John Auden to the New York Public Library Credentials and Qualifications: 1979 - present. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): sale of early scripts to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Harold Brodkey: sale of literary archive to Harvard University. 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. R. Buckminster-Fuller: sale of literary archive to Stanford University. William Faulkner: sale of family correspondence to the Brodsky Collection at Southeastern Missouri State University. Lukas Foss: sale of musical archive to the Library of Congress. John Gardner: sale of literary archive to the University of Rochester. Nadine Gordimer: sale of literary archive to Indiana University. Joseph Heller: sale of literary archive to the University of South Carolina. David Ignatow: sale of literary archive to the University of California in San Diego. Frederick Karl: sale of literary archive to the University of South Carolina. Kenneth Koch: sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library. Philip Levine: sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library. Bernard Malamud: sale of literary archive to the University of Texas. 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. Sean O'Casey: sale of literary archive to the National Library of Ireland 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. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: sale of historical archive of Grace Tully to Hollinger, Inc. Ned Rorem: sale of musical and literary archive to the Library of Congress. James Salter: sale of literary archive to the University of Texas. Charles Simic: sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library. Charles Simic: sale of literary archive to the New York Public Library. Tom Stoppard: sale of early working papers to the University of Texas. Kurt Vonnegut: sale of literary archive to Indiana University. Elie Wiesel: sale of literary and historical archive to Boston University.
In addition, the firm has represented the following parties for the purpose of either estate or insurance appraisal: Advance Publications / New Yorker Magazine Archive: gift to the New York Public Library. 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 Bernard Malamud literary archives: gifts to the Library of Congress and the University of Texas, Austin. 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
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. has published over forty-five catalogues from 1980-2003.
Education of Mr. Horowitz: A.B. in 1977 from Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.