John Day Company Explained
The John Day Company was a New York publishing firm that specialized in illustrated fiction and current affairs books and pamphlets from 1926 to 1968. It was founded by Richard J. Walsh in 1926 and named after John Day, the Elizabethan printer. Walsh was the editor and second husband of Pearl S. Buck.[1] [2] The John Day Company was sold to the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. in 1974.[3]
Authors
Some of the many authors associated with John Day Publishing.
Pamphlet Series
The Great Depression led to a steep decline in book sales in the early 1930s, this led to a small revival in pamphlet literature.[5] Between 1932 and 1934 the John Day Company published a pamphlet series known as The John Day Pamphlet Series. In total, 45 were published. They are as follows:
- Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself [6]
- Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression—and After: A Prophecy [7]
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 [8]
- Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature [9]
- Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis [10]
- Charles Austin Beard, The Myth of Rugged American Individualism [11]
- Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy [12]
- Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem [13]
- Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry [14]
- Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution [15]
- George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages) [16]
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice [17]
- Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society [18]
- Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done—Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation [19]
- Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution [20]
- Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy [21]
- Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism [22]
- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? [23]
- Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation [24]
- Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages) [25]
- Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership [26]
- John Strachey, Unstable Money [27]
- Ambrose William Benkert and Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression [28]
- Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler [29]
- Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order [30]
- Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane [31]
- Osgood Nichols and Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America [32]
- Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed [33]
- Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City [34]
- Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation [35]
- Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship [36]
- Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power [37]
- Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany [38]
- Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? [39]
- Leon Trotsky, What Hitler Wants [40]
- Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee [41]
- Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems [42]
- Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America [43]
- Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled [44]
- Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy [45]
- Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar [46]
- Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable? [47]
- Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers [48]
- James Rorty, Order on the Air! [49]
- Stuart Chase, Move the Goods! [50]
The last page of pamphlet 45 is currently visible on HathiTrust, listing all pamphlets in order.
Other book series
- Creative Music Series
- The Daughters of Valor Series[51]
- Finding Out About Geography[52]
- Finding Out About Science
- Great Men of Science
- Here's How Series[53]
- Let's Visit series
- The Living Drama Series[54] (Series editor: William Kozlenko)
- John Day Books in Contemporary Education
- The John Day Intimate Guide Series[55]
- The New York Times Survey Series
- Our Neighbors series
- Picture Aids to World Geography[56]
- The Reason Why Series[57]
- Scientists at Work Series[58]
- The World of Architecture
- The Young Historian Series[59] (Series editor: Patrick Moore)
- The Your Fair Land Series[60]
Notes and References
- https://www.nytimes.com/1960/05/29/archives/richard-walsh-publisher-dead-author-editor-was-board-chairman-of.html "Richard Walsh, Publisher, Dead"
- Web site: PUBLISHING ARCHIVES. September 2003. AMERICAN PUBLISHING HISTORY AT PRINCETON. 14 December 2010.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/19/archives/mary-to-walsh-59-publishing-official.html Mary T. O. Walsh, 59, Publishing Official
- Lindfors . Bernth . Spring 1978 . A Checklist of Works by and About Chinua Achebe . Obsidian . . 4 . 1 . 105 . 44491317 .
- Book: Bloomfield, Maxwell . 2000 . Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal . Harvard University Press . 124 . 9780674003040 . registration .
- Book: West, Rebecca . Arnold Bennett Himself . 1932. John Day. New York . 9780841494855.
- Book: Chase, Stuart . Out of the Depression--and After: A Prophecy . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Stalin, Josef V. . The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Himes, Norman . The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Lippmann, Walter . Notes on the Crisis . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Beard, Charles . The Myth of Rugged American Individualism . 1932. John Day. New York . 9780598886187.
- Book: Tugwell, Rexford . Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Hagedorn, Herman . The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Hedges, Marion . A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Seldes, Gilbert . Against Revolution . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Counts, George . . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Van Loon, Hendrik . To Have or to Be--Take Your Choice . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Thomas, Norman . The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Wells, H. G. . What Should be Done -- Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Calverton, Victor . For Revolution . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Kallen, Horace . College Prolongs Infancy . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Gregg, Richard . Gandhiism versus Socialism . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Buck, Pearl . Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? . 1932. John Day. New York .
- Book: Chase, Stuart . Technocracy: An Interpretation . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Einstein, Albert . The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Melvin, Arthur . Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Strachey, John . Unstable Money . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Benkert, Ambrose . How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Clinchy, Everett . The Strange Case of Herr Hitler . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Lippmann, Walter . A New Social Order . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: White, Elwyn . Alice Through the Cellophane . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Nichols, Osgood . Work Camps for America . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Hacker, Louis . The Farmer is Doomed . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: MacLeish, Archibald . Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: A Call to the Teachers of the Nation . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Hazlitt, Henry . Instead of Dictatorship . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Chase, Stuart . The Promise of Power . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Josephson, Matthew . Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Finkelstein, Maurice . The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Trotsky, Leon . What Hitler Wants . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity! . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Rugg, Harold . Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems . 1933. John Day. New York .
- Book: Wolfe, Bertram . Marx and America . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Childs, Marquis . Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Salter, Arthur . Toward a Planned Economy . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Filene, Edward . The Consumer's Dollar . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Holmes, John . Is Suicide Justifiable? . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Philips, Mary . Discovering Consumers . 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Rorty
, James
. Order on the Air! . James Rorty. 1934. John Day. New York .
- Book: Chase, Stuart . Move the Goods! . 1934. John Day. New York .
- https://reshelvingalexandria.com/pub/series/daughters-of-valor Daughters of Valor
- "History, geography can be interesting for young people", The Jackson Sun, 5 May 1972, p. 52.
- "Tried and Tested Techniques of Filip Not Volsteadian", The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 1930, p. 43.
- "'Destroyers' First Play in Living Drama Series", Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1942, p. 94.
- New York After Dark in 1931 https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2019/01/26/new-york-after-dark-in-1931/
- Anita Brooks, "The Picture Book of Salt", Kirkus Reviews, 10 February 1964. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- "Little Science Books Ready for Bright Eyes", The Jackson Sun, 21 August 1960, p. 29.
- "A Brief Look", The Daily Oklahoman, 25 January 1976, p. 135.
- Curtis R. Burau, "More History for Pupils of Mankind", The Sacramento Bee, 13 December 1970, p. 144.
- "The Easy Way", El Paso Times, 29 May 1960, p. 90.
