Preface:

During 1974 the NMSU Library purchased a large portion of the book stock of the Gotham Book Mart in New York. Frances Stelloff founded the Gotham Book Mart in New York in 1920 and the collection reflects her interests — poetry, literature, the theater and fine arts. Several thousand volumes, including all of Miss Stelloff's personal copies, were placed in Special Collections. Many of the titles are first editions signed by such authors as W.H. Auden, William Burroughs, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Diane Wakoski, and Tennessee Williams.  --From an NMSU newsletter written by Dean Charles Townley , April 1997.