The Four Seas Company was a bookstore and small-press publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] It is remembered today mostly for its publication of the early work of major modernist writers such as William Faulkner,[2] William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein,[3] and Yone Noguchi. Four Seas was founded by the young Edmund R. Brown upon his graduation from Harvard College in 1910,[4] and its imprint first appears in 1911. The last book published under the imprint was in 1930, the year the company was absorbed by Bruce Humphries, Inc.[4][5]

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References

  1. ^ Bruno, Guido (1922). Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms. Detroit: Douglas Bookshop. p. 106.
  2. ^ "William Faulkner: Apprentice Years". The University of Michigan Special Collections Library. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. ^ Dydo, Ulla E.; Rice, William (2003). Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934. Northwestern University Press. p. 44. ISBN 0-8101-1919-6. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b Shackelford, Lynne P. "Four Seas Company." American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980: Trade and Paperback, edited by Peter Dzwonkoski, Gale, 1986. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 46. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1220000368/GLS?sid=GLS&xid=0f109352
  5. ^ Krygier, John. "Contemporary Series: The Four Seas Company". Ohio Wesleyan University. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  6. ^ Brodsky, Louis Daniel (2011). William Faulkner, Life Glimpses. University of Texas Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0292739918. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  7. ^ "WITH AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS". New York Times. September 24, 1922. Retrieved Feb 21, 2020.
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