KEN LOPEZ BOOKSELLER Archives | Manuscripts | Collections

Preserving writers’ literary archives gives future generations insight to the creation of literary art from the inside out, and to the personal and historical context of the artist in their time.

Since 1981, Ken Lopez Bookseller has been issuing catalogs of literary first editions, predominantly by contemporary, living, working writers. Dealing with living writers’ published works led us directly to helping some of those writers find institutional homes for their papers.

We strive to try to find a suitable institutional home for the archives we represent—where they will fit with other collections, attract scholarly interest and research, and be valued—and we try to maintain a pragmatic and collaborative approach with the institution we are offering the archive to. In many cases this results in there being a meaningful relationship between the individual writer and the institution, beyond the mere financial transaction in the sale and purchase of the archive.

We also appraise writers' archives.

Current Collections
Archives presently offered for sale

  • Gary Braasch
  • Corinne Demas
  • Clayton Eshleman
  • Rockwell Kent
  • Jay Neugeboren
  • Robert Stone
  • Gerald Vizenor
  • Dan Wakefield
  • Terry Tempest Williams

Highlights
A small sampling of notable collections we've sold


Collections Handled
Archives sold and/or appraised

  • Edward Abbey
  • Andre Alexis
  • Nelson Algren and Stephen Deutch
  • Yehuda Amichai
  • Rick Bass
  • Nat Bellantoni
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Wesley Brown
  • Joseph Bruchac
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Lisa Couturier
  • Max Crawford
  • John Crowley
  • Vine Deloria
  • Pietro Di Donato
  • Andre Dubus
  • Alan Dugan
  • David James Duncan
  • Gretel Ehrlich
  • Clayton Eshleman
  • French Symbolists
  • Bruce Jay Friedman
  • William Gaddis
  • Richard Grossinger
  • Anthony Harvey
  • Edward Hoagland
  • Barbara Howes
  • Kristin Hunter
  • Janis Ian
  • William Inge
  • Ronald Johnson
  • Pauline Kael
  • Ken Kesey
  • Denis Kitchen
  • William Kittredge
  • Tuli Kupferberg
  • Barry Lopez
  • Thomas Mann
  • Paul Manship
  • Harry Mathews
  • Peter Matthiessen
  • Bill McKibben
  • Thomas Merton
  • N. Scott Momaday
  • Susan Brind Morrow
  • Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Jay Neugeboren
  • Craig Nova
  • Tim O'Brien
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Doug Peacock
  • Joanne Pottlitzer
  • Dawn Powell
  • Annie Proulx
  • Mario Puzo
  • Robert Michael Pyle
  • David Quammen
  • Marc Reisner
  • Roxana Robinson
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • James Salter
  • Samuel French Co.
  • Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Annick Smith
  • Terry Southern
  • Frank Stanford
  • Maureen Stapleton
  • Robert Stone
  • James Tate
  • Gerald Vizenor
  • Dan Wakefield
  • James Welch
  • George Weller
  • Stanford White
  • Stanley Wiater
  • Dara Wier
  • Terry Tempest Williams

Contact
We can be contacted via our main website's inquiry form, or:

Ken Lopez Bookseller
51 Huntington Rd
Hadley, MA 01035
Phone: 413-584-4827
Email: mail@lopezbooks.com