Fales Library

Fales Library

The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, and 10,000 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, houses the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature, the Downtown Collection, and the general Special Collections from the New York University Libraries.

The Fales Collection was given to NYU in 1957 by DeCoursey Fales in memory of his father, Haliburton Fales. It is especially strong in English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. Other related collections held in Fales include the Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll Materials, the Robert Frost Library, the Nelson F. Adkins collection of American Literature, and the manuscript collections of Elizabeth Robins, Peter Straub, E. L. Doctorow and Erich Maria Remarque.

The Downtown Collection documents the downtown New York city art, performance, film, and literary landscape from 1975 to the present. In addition to thousands of published books and magazines, the Downtown Collection includes extensive holdings of archival and manuscript material; film and video; original artwork; theatrical models; and other realia. Archival holdings range from the personal papers of writers such as Dennis Cooper, Richard Foreman and Lynne Tillman to the papers of publishing ventures such as High Risk and Between C & D to the archives of organizations such as Creative Time and Mabou Mines.

An area of recent growth in Fales is the Food and Cookery Collection of well over 15,000 books. The personal libraries of Cecily Brownstone and Dalia Carmel form the core of this collection which continues to expand.

The Fales Library preserves manuscripts and original editions of books that are rare or important not only because of their texts, but also because of their value as artifacts.

The Fales Library holds the personal papers and/or archives of the following, among others:

Dennis Cooper

David Wojnarowicz

Lynne Tillman

Peter Straub

Elizabeth Robins

E. L. Doctorow

External links

* [http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm Collection Descriptions and Finding Aids]

* [http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu/ BobCat] online catalog


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