IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0370 LIBRIS
Held at: Queen Mary, University of London
Title: LIBRIS UK
Date(s): 1985-2013
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 12 boxes
Name of creator(s): Libris UK Publishing
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Libris was an independent publishing company based in London, which opened in September 1986, and published its first titles in 1988. Libris started out with a general list, including Victorian religious doubters (Froude and 'Mark Rutherford'), Neruda poems (now out of print), biographies of Italo Svevo and Wordsworth, and the late Brigid Brophy's Mozart book. However, from 1990 Libris concentrated almost exclusively on books of and about German literature from Goethe to Brecht. It closed in 2014.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Libris UK including correspondence concerning editorial issues and associated reviews of published works. Written in English and German. Contains the following files:
Box 1
File 1: Ashton, Rosemary, THE GERMAN IDEA
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, April 1993-January 1994.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work August 1980-June 1995.
File 2: Bosley, Keith, EVE BLOSSOM HAS WHEELS - GERMAN LOVE POETRY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, May 1995-March 1997.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1997.
File 3: Brecht, Bertolt, WAR PRIMER
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, March 1996-October 1997.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1997-2003.
Box 2
File 4: Bridgham, Fred, THE FRIENDLY GERMAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, February 1990-September 1995.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1995-1998.
File 5: Bridgwater, Patrick, POET OF EXPRESSIONIST BERLIN - THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORG HEYM
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1994.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1991-1994.
File 6: Brophy, Brigid, MOZART THE DRAMATIST
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1989.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1988-2006.
Box 3
File 7: Dove, Richard, HE WAS A GERMAN - A BIOGRAPHY OF ERNST TOLLER
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1987-1990.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work 1988-1995.
File 8: Dove, Richard, JOURNEY OF NO RETURN - FIVE GERMAN SPEAKING LITERARY EXILES IN BRITAIN, 1933-1945
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1997-2000.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2001.
File 9: Fallada, Hans, THE DRINKER
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1988-1989.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1989-2005.
Box 4
File 10: Fallada, Hans, LITTLE MAN -WHAT NOW?
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1996.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1987-2009.
File 11: Fontane, Theodor, BEYOND THE TWEED - A TOUR OF SCOTLAND IN 1858
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1998.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1997-2005.
File 12: [Franz, Fuhmann, SELECTED STORIES] not published
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2005.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.
Box 5
File 13: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, ROMAN ELEGIES and THE DIARY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1996.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1986-1998.
File 14: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, SELECTED POETRY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1999.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1990-1999.
File 15: Haffner, Sebastian, GERMANY: JEKYLL & HYDE
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2004-2005.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.
Box 6
File 16: Heym, Georg, POEMS
One file in three parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1985-2005.
Part 2a and 2b. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2005.
Box 7
File 17: Heym, Georg, THE THIEF AND OTHER STORIES
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1990-1994.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-2000.
File 18: Hebel, Johann Peter, THE TREASURE CHEST
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1989-1995.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-2010.
Box 8
File 19: [Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, AN IMPOSSIBLE MAN] not published
One file.
Correspondence concerning editorial issues concerning unpublished book, 2004-2013.
File 20: Kastner, Erich, FABIAN - THE STORY OF A MORALIST
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-2004.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1988-2005.
File 21: Gansel, Mireille and Kunze, Reiner, 'IN TIME OF NEED' - A CONVERSATION ABOUT POETRY, RESISTANCE AND EXILE
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2005-2006.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005-2009.
Box 9
File 22: Lafitte, Francois, THE INTERNMENT OF ALIENS
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1987-1988.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1987-2003.
File 23: Lukacs, Georg, GERMAN REALISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1988-1992.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1989-1996.
Box 10
File 24: Grenville, Anthony and Malet, Marian, CHANGING COUNTRIES - THE EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF GERMAN-SPEAKING EXILES FROM HITLER IN BRITAIN FROM 1933 TO TODAY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1999-2010.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2004-2009.
File 25: Munsterer, Hanns Otto, THE YOUNG BRECHT
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1986-1994.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1992-1998.
File 26: Morike, Eduard, MOZART'S JOURNEY TO PRAGUE and SELECTED POEMS
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1994-1996.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1997-2005.
Box 11
File 27: Reves, Nigel, HEINRICH HEINE: POETRY AND POLITICS
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1993-1994.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1994-1996.
File 28: Schiller, Friedrich, WILLIAM TELL, A PLAY
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2001-2005.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005.
File 29: Trakl, Georg, POEMS & PROSE
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1996-2008.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2000-2005.
Box 12
File 30: Williams, Jenny, MORE LIVES THAN ONE - A BIOGRAPHY OF HANS FALLADA
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 1996-2008.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 1998-2009.
File 31: Wizisla, Erdmut, WALTER BENJAMIN AND BERTOLT BRECHT - THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP
One file in two parts.
Part 1. Correspondence concerning editorial issues, 2003-2009.
Part 2. Correspondence, papers, regarding reviews and reception of the published work, 2005-2009.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and German
System of arrangement:
Arranged A-Z as per original order
Conditions governing access:
Open. The Archives are available for access in the Archives Reading Room located on the 2nd Floor of the Mile End Library. The Archives Reading Room is open Mondays to Fridays 9am-4pm by appointment only. Contact the Archives for more information: Archives, Main Library QMUL, 328 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, telephone: 020 7882 3873, email: archives@qmul.ac.uk. For more information about the Archives see the website: www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Retained in situ at LIBRIS and then transferred to the Archives in January 2015.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Complied by Nicola Wood
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2015