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American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.

Formerly	American Book Bindery Company, Inc.
Headquarters	95 Mayhill Street Saddle Brook, New Jersey 07662 United States
Subsidiaries	American Book-Stratford Press Lithographic Division, Inc.

The American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., is a book binding, printing, and publishing firm. It was founded in 1899 by Louis Satenstein (1882–1964) in New York City as the American Book Bindery Company.

History

American Book Bindery Company

Michael J. Conroy (born around 1876 Ireland), book printer, doing business as the American Book Printing House at 265 Cherry Street made an assignment to Louis Satenstein. Conroy began business in March 1907.

The American Bookbinding Company was founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis by Satenstein (1882–1948), who immigrated from Russia in 1889. By the 1920s, it had production plants in Boston and Philadelphia. In 1918, it headquarters was located at 31st Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan.

In 1918, the New York plant was located at 31st Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan.

The company eventually merged with the Stratford Press. Louis Satenstein ran the press with his three sons until his death. Three years after his death, the company purchased the Knickerbocker Press and Cornwall Press. Under the direction of Sidney Satenstein, the American Book-Knickerbocker Press and later, American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. (in a return to its original name) turned out 150,000 books daily and had 160 employees by 1967.

The company is currently located in Saddle Brook, New Jersey.

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• article
• book
• Legal docs
• legal stuff
• "Books That Are Bound To Sell," The Du Pont Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 2, March-April 1922, pps. 10–11

• American Book Bindery, Inc. (incorporated in New York January 5, 1928)

New York City

The Stratford Press, Inc., founded in 1915, was Louis Satenstein's entry into the printing aspect of bookmaking. The founding executives and directors were:

• Louis Satenstein, President
• John D. Lent, Vice President
• Timothy J. O'Connor, Secretary
• Directors: Louis Satenstein, Jesse Satenstien, John D. Lent, Timothy J. O'Connor

Re-Origination

In 1972, AB-SP consolidated H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, Inc., founded by Harris Wolff (1869–1916), consolidated operations into AB-SP facilities and realigned its sales and marketing functions under Richard Hirsch, Vice President Sale and Marketing Director. William S. Konecky and W.V. Davidson, Jr., both Vice Presidents, submitted their resignations, effective February 1, 1972.

Bankruptcy

The American Book‐Stratford Press, Inc., filed a bankruptcy petition June 1, 1973, for an arrangement with creditors under Chapter 11. At the time, the company listed liabilities of $15,206,000 and assets of $17,035,000. In 1971, the company reported sales of $44.5 million and in the nine months to September 30, 1972, sales of $28,894,000. The company reported a loss of $2,580,000 in the nine month period. At the time, the company was listed on the American Stock Exchange.

New York incorporation activity

• American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., DOS ID #: 24513; DOS Active Date: January 5, 1928 (Inactive: Merged Out December 31, 1991)
• American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., DOS ID #: 1280294; Initial DOS Filing Date: July 27, 1988; (Inactive: Dissolution October 15, 2014)

Henry Burr, CEO

302 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10001-3604

New Jersey incorporation activity

• American Book-Stratford Press Lithographic Division, Inc., DOS ID #: 145428; Initial DOS Filing Date: February 19, 1962; New York Foreign Business Corporation: Active; incorporated in New Jersey

75 Varick Street

New York, New York 10013

Selected personnel

Executives

• Jesse Satenstein (19 August 1885 Kovno, Russia – 7 September 1965 New York City), Louis Satenstein's brother. Immigrated to the United States 1900. Book manufacturer, NYC; inventor bookbinding machine. See: AJYB, 67:541-42

• Louis Satenstein (21 December 1874 Kovno, Russia – May 26 1947 New York City), Jesse Satenstein's brother. Immigrated to the United States in 1889. Studied at Paine's Business School (founded 1849 by Martin Smith Paine; 1813–1885), New York City (on Spring Street). Publisher, printer, bookbinder, NYC; active Jewish Maternity Hospital, Home of the Daughters of Jacob, Beth Israel Hospital. See: UJA; AJYB, 50:522; WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA]

• Edward Satenstein (1 October 1902 Manhattan – 4 June 1968 Manhattan). Louis Satenstein's son. Studied at Amherst College, class of 1923, did not graduate. Studied at Columbia University. Publisher, equestrian, NYC; President of the American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.; active Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; WWII service; See: WWWIA, 5; New York Times, June 6 1968, 48:3.

• Sidney J. Satenstein (28 September 1900 Manhattan – 22 February 1961 Boca Raton) was President of the American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., from 1942 until his death. He was Louis Satenstein's son. He studied at Amherst College, class of 1922, but did not graduate. He had been a member of the State Board of Social Welfare, the New York City Mayor's Committee for Scholastic Achievement, and was a director of Anti-Defamation League. See: AJYB, 63:562; WWWIA, 4 Sidney also was an executive with the family owned Alchemic Gold Company, Inc., which manufactured a liquid substitute for leaf gold used in printing. The substance was invented by Doughty Howard Waters, PhD (1871–1949), professor of chemistry at Amherst College, who patented it in 1922, and assigned it to Alchemy Gold Company, Inc.

• Henry Burr (né Henry Irving Burstein; born 24 March 1928 Manhattan). Louis Satenstein's grandson.

See this

• Adolph J. Ammon (né Adolph John Jeisi; 1899–1981), vice president and controller of American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. He was a 1922 graduate of New York University and a member of the Econometric Society.

Directors

• 1928–1968: Edward Satenstein
• 1948–1984: Frank Satenstein
• 1957–19??: Henry I. Burr
• 1967–1977: Milton Charles Weisman (1895–1977), corporate lawyer; partner of

1932–1934: Weisman, Allan & Spett

1934–1947: Weisman, Quinn, Allan & Spett

1937–1953: Weisman, Celler, Quinn, Allan & Spett

1953–1973: Weisman, Celler, Allan, Spett & Sheinberg

1973–1977: Weisman, Celler, Spett, Modlin & Wertheimer

1. Emanuel Celler (1888–1981), became a partner in 1936
2. Samuel S. Allan (1900–1972) was married to Milton's sister, Beatrice Lillian Weisman (1904–1995)
3. Elmer Francis Quinn (1895–1952)
4. Murray Charles Spett (1903–1990) was married to Milton's sister, Helen Weisman (1905–1996)
5. Howard Samuel Modlin (born 1931) is a widower of Murray Spett's daughter, Margot Patricia Spett (1934–2015)
6. Arthur Sheinberg (1908–1967)

• 1945–1981: Adolph J. Ammon (né Adolph John Jeisi; 1899–1981), vice president and controller of American Book-Stratford Press Inc. He was a 1922 graduate of New York University and a member of the Econometric Society.
• 1947–19??: Harry N. Brandt (1897–1972), Chairman of the Board and Executive Officer of the corporation that operated the Brandt chain of of motion picture theaters in the New York City metropolitan area. In 1924, he married Louis Satenstein's daughter, Sylvia Helen Satenstein (1904–1973). Richard Brandt was their son.
• 1961–1972: Walter V. Davidson, Jr., Administrative Vice President, Sales
• 1962–19??: Ralph M. Duenewald (né Ralph Martin Duenewald; 1897–1985), Vice Chairman of the Board of Duenewald-Konecky Lithographers, Inc. (subsidiary of AB-SP).
• 1962–1972: William Konecky (aka Bill Konecky; né William Sherman Konecky; 1918–2014), President of Duenewald-Konecky Lithographers, Inc. (subsidiary of AB-SP).
• 1962–19??: Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1925–2015), General Partner, Bear Stearns & Co.
• 1962–19??: Richard Paul Brandt (1927–2018), head of the theater division, President and, finally, Chairman of the Board of Trans-Lux Corporation from 1950 to 2003

Typeographers

S.A. Jacobs (né Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs; 1890–1971) was an American printer and a book designer. Jacobs, in 1922, founded the Polytype Press at 39 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, and, in 1923, founded the Golden Eagle Press in Mount Vernon, New York, both elite modernist limited-edition printing establishments. Over those years, the American Institute of Graphic Arts selected a dozen of Jacobs's books among its annual "Fifty Books of the Year." Glenway Wescott's Natives of Rock (1925) was one such book, the Covici-Friede (Pascal Covici and Donald Friede) edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1930) was another. He was married to Hilda Marie Bosse (maiden; born 1905). Hilda's father, Henry Robert Bosse (1863–1947), was a lithographer.

Type designers

• Frederic W. Goudy (1865–1947)

Industry affiliations

1925: A group of thirty-five craftsmen, as delegates from book binderies in and around New York City, founded The Book Industry Guild of New York, Inc. (as of 2012, a New Jersey entity), previous name:

• Bookbinders' Guild of New York
• Master Bookbinders and Paper Rulers Association, Inc., 461 8th Avenue (in 1920)
• November 1927: Bookbinders Trade Association, Inc., New York.

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Charter members include:

• George McKibben & Son (founded 1890)
• American Book Bindery Company, Inc. (Sidney J. Satenstein, President)
• Grady Bookbinding Co. (Francis E. Grady, President)
• H. Wolff, namesake of Harris Wolff (1869–1916), founder (Otto Georg Hugo; 1888–1973; of the H. Wolff estate) aka H. Wolfe Publishing Company

1. Chester Christe Irwin (1899–1983), charter member

• J. J. Little and Ives (Joseph J. Little and John N. Ives)
• Knickerbocker Press
• J. C. Valentine Co., namesake of John C. Valentine; 1841–1903, bookbinder

2. Frank Valentine (né Francis Joseph Valentine; 1864–1939), President (John C. Valentine's son)

• Van Rees Press (Cornelius Van Rees)
• Charles H. Bohn Co., Inc.
• J. F. Tapley Company

3. Philipp Friederick Ernst (1877–1950), charter member

• Russell-Rutter Company, Inc. (Thomas Russell and Robert Rutter)

4. Frank D. Fortney (né Francis Daniel Fortney; 1884–1965), Guild's founding President

• Bookbinding Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1925 – Vol. 24, No. 2, August 1936)

5. Leo Harold Joachim (1888–1985), founding editor

• Others

• See OCLC 46596669

Past presidents of the Bookbinders Guild

• 1942, 1943: E.L. Farwell (né Ernest Linwood Farwell; 1893–1979), President
• Joel P. Moss (1953–2018)
• 1949: Gene Rieder (né Eugene Rieder; 1907–1977), Chairman, who was associated with Country Life Press
• 1949: Murray Miller, President, who is associated with Publishers Bookbinders

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Not to be confused with the the Book-Binders Guild organized around 1910 by the National Society of Craftsmen.

Family

Son: Sidney J. Satenstein (1900–1961), began, in 1932, working for the American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., New York City, and ten years later, became president, a position he held until his death. Around 1949, he founded of the National Book Award.

Artist

Son: Edward Satenstein (1905–1968) joined his father's company in 1923 and served as Vice President from 1946 to 1961, then President until 1965, then Chairman.

Son: Frank P. Satenstein (1924–1984) was the director of the The Honeymooners and was married to Betty Bruce, the dancer.

Brother: Nikol Schattenstein (1877–1954) was a Russian painter. 1875, he was educated in Wilna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Berlin Academy. In his early youth he was twice awarded the Prix de Rome, which took him to Rome for three years of study. He next established his studio in Vienna, where he remained until 1920, when he came to New York and became a U.S. citizen in 1925. Franz Joseph I of Austria made Schattenstein a Knight of the Cross. He received many other decorations, including the Great Gold Medal and the State Gold Medal in international exhibitions in Vienna, the State Silver Medal in Vienna, the Silver Medal of Salzburg, as well as receiving honorable mention from the Paris Salon.

Skylar Satenstein

Selected timeline

• Commercial Graphics Division is founded as a subsidiary, spearheaded by Henry Burr, Vice President, and Samuel Tissenbaum, Vice President and General Manager of AB-SP's subsidiary, Duenewald-Konecky Lithographers, Inc. (Duenewald Lithograph Company and Konecky Publishing Co., Inc.; Bill Konecky; né William Sherman Konecky; 1918–2014)

Corporate names and addresses

New York City

1899: American Book Bindery, trade name, registered with the New York County Clerk.

1899–1914: 265 Cherry Street (at Rutgers Street), and 520 Water Street, Manhattan – on the East River of the Lower East Side, between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges

1915–1925: American Book Binding Company, 406 West 31st Street, Manhattan, New York, in the Chelsea neighborhood between 9th and 10th Avenues. The building, 15 stories of about 325,000 sq. ft., was known as "The American Book Building." It was erected in 1915 and initially owned by the Listowel Realty Company, George Conrad Keiser (1878–1942), President. In 1919, the building was purchased by Count Louis Zborowski, son of the then late William Eliot Morris Zborowski and Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853–1911), a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr., of the Astor family.

The Fashion Institute of Technology bought the building 2003 for $48 million from John Melohn, repurposed it for student housing, which opened August 2006, as Kaufman Hall with 1,110 beds. One of the prior tenants had been HotJobs, then a unit of Yahoo!, which occupied two floors before moving out in June 2004. Yahoo!'s presence was an irony, given that the growth online media forced print media to diversify and weakened the giants that were heavily invested in print media assets. The words "American Book Bindery Building" are visible in faded letters on its eastern facade – an iconic relic viewable from the High Line.

1930–1953: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., 75 Varick Street, Manhattan, New York

Philadelphia

1917: 115 North 6th Street, Philadelphia

1944: 137 North 7th Street, Philadelphia

1951–1955: American Book Binding Co., 924 Cherry Street, Philadelphia

Chicago

1953: 116 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Saddle Brook, New Jersey

1961: Saddle Brook, New Jersey

1961: Stratford Diary & Novelty Co., Inc.

Palo Alto, California

West Coast division office at Palo Alto, California, opened November 1966.

Selected books

• Type Specimen Book (1931); OCLC 12410564

Supplement No. 1; OCLC 83704205

Supplement No. 2; OCLC 612446194

Supplement Nos. 1 & 2; OCLC 56280062

• The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful, Stratford Press-American Book Bindery (1930); 350 editions with 50 copies reserved by the designer [S.A. Jacobs] for his private use; this is copy no. 49; signed "Season's Greetings, 1930, S.A. Jacobs"
• List of Faces, Sizes and Fonts: a Complete List of Linotype and Monotype Faces Available in our Plant (C indicates fonts at Cornwall Plant); OCLC 862826110
• An index of Type Faces at the American Book Bindery-Stratford Press (1937); OCLC 27140023
• Baskerville and Caslon Old Face in the English Monotype Cuttings (1st ed.), American Book Bindery-Stratford Press (hardcover, 79 pps., 8vo); Promotional brochure for the American Book Bindery-Stratford Press showing different font styles and book design elements they were capable of reproducing; OCLC 579644912, 1451608
• Type Faces, at the American Book-Stratford Press, Incorporated (2 Vols.) New York: s.n., 1938; OCLC 64237887, 33997892
• Forty Years, 1899–1939, of the American Book-Stratford Press, Incorporated (2 Vols.) (1939); OCLC 83283556
• Type Faces at the American Book-Stratford Press, Incorporated (2 Vols., Golden anniversary ed.) (1949); OCLC 4154372, 863351264

Disambiguations

Stratford-upon-Avon is the hometown of Shakespeare. The name, "Stratford" is contained in several book-literature company oriented names.

Stratford Press, Cleveland

The Stratford Press Company was founded in 1911 in Cleveland by William Joseph Raddatz (1880–1940), who served as the founding President. Raddatz, among other things, was a reporter for The Plain Dealer and a recognized Shakespeare scholar. In the mid-1920s, he founded W. J. Raddatz & Co., a book printing firm, and also had served as Vice President of The A. S. Gilman Printing Company, a Cleveland-based firm founded in 1895 by Arthur S. Gilman, which dissolved in 1925.

Stratford Press, Worcester, Massachusetts

The Stratford Press was founded in 1913 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Thomas F. Johnson (born 1880) and Elmer Frank Gleason for the purpose of producing high-grade commercial and society printing. He filed for bankruptcy in 1914.

Stratford Press, Cincinnati

The Stratford Press of Cincinnati was a private literary press for private use by libraries, literary clubs, academics, philanthropists, artists, collectors, patrons, and friends. After failing in 1914 to operate the Stratford Press in Worcester, Massachusetts, Elmer Frank Gleason began building books, privately in Cincinnati under the name, Stratford Press, around 1920, as a hobby. Gleason – lauded as a talented artisan – printed and bound books by hand. Some of his works flourished in literary, art, and history circles for its content and book design and construction. An exemplary specimen of his work is found in a booklet, Clara Chipman Newton: a memorial tribute, released November 1, 1938, in Cincinnati.

Professionally in Cincinnati, Gleason was head of layout and design for the McDonald Printing Company.

The Stratford Company, Publishers, Boston

The Stratford Company, Publishers, of Boston, founded around 1915, was the publisher of the The Stratford Journal ("an international magazine") (Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1916, to Vol. 6, No. 1, January-March 1920). The firm was still in business in 1937.

Editors:

• William S. Braithwaite

1916–1918: Editor

• Isaac Goldberg

1918–1920: Editor

• Henry Thomas (né Henry Thomas Schnittkind; 18 August 1888 Merkinė, Gubernia, Russia – 25 December 1970 Bridgeport, Connecticut).

1916–1917: Associate editor

1917–1919: Managing editor

Thomas immigrated to Boston in 1898 and went on to earn three degrees from Harvard: a Bachelor of Arts (1909), a Master of Arts (1910), and a PhD (1913). He was a publisher, author, editor, educator. He was one of the organizers and President of The Stratford Company, Publishers.

• Owners: The Stratford Co., Publishers: (i) Henry Thomas Schnittkind, (ii) Max Samuel Kirshen (1889–1963), (iii) Bernard William Marcus (1883–1958)

Stratford Press & Printing (New Zealand)

The Stratford Press & Printing Company, Ltd. of Stratford, New Zealand, is an independent newspaper printer.