The Book Farm was a book collection and reprint publishing house under the direction of idiosyncratic bibliophile Charles Heartman (1883–1954).[1] It moved with the Heartmans from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Biloxi to New Braunfels, Texas, to New Orleans. Heartman is best known for his bibliographies What Constitutes a Confederate Imprint?: Preliminary Suggestions for Bibliographers and Catalogers (1939) and North American Negro Poets: a Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings from 1760–1944 (1945).[2] Heartman collected widely but had a particular interest in African-Americana.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Charles Heartman and the Book Farm". University of Southern Mississippi (lib.usm.edu). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ Price, Peggy. "Charles F. Heartman's Utopia". Fine Books and Collections. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
- ^ "From the Stacks: Arabic Verse with an Unusual History". www.nyhistory.org. 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2024-08-29.