John Day Company

John Day Company

Status	Defunct
Founded	1926
Founder	Richard Walsh
Successor	Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Country of origin	United States
Publication types	Books

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.

• Irving Adler
• Peggy Adler
• Pearl S. Buck
• Langston Hughes
• Lin Yutang
• Sidney Hook
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Patrick O'Brian
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Rexford Guy Tugwell
• Stuart Chase
• Albert Einstein
• Joseph Stalin
• Leon Trotsky
• James Burnham

Pamphlet Series

The Great Depression led to a steep decline in book sales in the early 1930's, this led to a small revival in pamphlet literature.^[4] Between 1932 to 1934 the John Day Company published a pamphlet series. In total, 45 were published. They are as follows:

• Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself ^[5]
• Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression—and After: A Prophecy ^[6]
• Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 ^[7]
• Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature ^[8]
• Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis ^[9]
• Charles Austin Beard, The Myth of Rugged American Individualism ^[10]
• Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy ^[11]
• Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem ^[12]
• Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry ^[13]
• Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution ^[14]
• George Sylvester Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages) ^[15]
• Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice ^[16]
• Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society ^[17]
• Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done—Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation ^[18]
• Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution ^[19]
• Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy ^[20]
• Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism ^[21]
• Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? ^[22]
• Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation ^[23]
• Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages) ^[24]
• Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership ^[25]
• John Strachey, Unstable Money ^[26]
• Ambrose William Benkert and Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression ^[27]
• Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler ^[28]
• Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order ^[29]
• Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane ^[30]
• Osgood Nichols and Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America ^[31]
• Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed ^[32]
• Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City ^[33]
• Committee of the Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation ^[34]
• Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship ^[35]
• Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power ^[36]
• Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany ^[37]
• Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? ^[38]
• Leon Trotsky, What Hitler Wants ^[39]
• Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee ^[40]
• Harold Rugg and Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems ^[41]
• Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America ^[42]
• Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled ^[43]
• Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy ^[44]
• Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar ^[45]
• Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable? ^[46]
• Mary Catherine Philips and Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers ^[47]
• James Rorty, Order on the Air! ^[48]
• Stuart Chase, Move the Goods! ^[49]

The last page of pamphlet 45 is currently visible on HathiTrust, listing all pamphlets in order.

References

1. Richard Walsh, Publisher, Dead. New York Times. May 29, 1960.
2. "PUBLISHING ARCHIVES". September 2003. AMERICAN PUBLISHING HISTORY AT PRINCETON. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
3. Mary T. O. Walsh, 59, Publishing Official
4. Bloomfield, Maxwell (2000). Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal. Harvard University Press. p. 124. ISBN 9780674003040.
5. West, Rebecca (1932). Arnold Bennett Himself. New York: John Day.
6. Chase, Stuart (1932). Out of the Depression--and After: A Prophecy. New York: John Day.
7. Stalin, Josef V. (1932). The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931. New York: John Day.
8. Himes, Norman (1932). The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature. New York: John Day.
9. Lippmann, Walter (1932). Notes on the Crisis. New York: John Day.
10. Beard, Charles (1932). The Myth of Rugged American Individualism. New York: John Day.
11. Tugwell, Rexford (1932). Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy. New York: John Day.
12. Hagedorn, Herman (1932). The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem. New York: John Day.
13. Hedges, Marion (1932). A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry. New York: John Day.
14. Seldes, Gilbert (1932). Against Revolution. New York: John Day.
15. Counts, George (1932). Dare the School Build a New Social Order?. New York: John Day.
16. Van Loon, Hendrik (1932). To Have or to Be--Take Your Choice. New York: John Day.
17. Thomas, Norman (1932). The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society. New York: John Day.
18. Wells, H. G. (1932). What Should be Done -- Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation. New York: John Day.
19. Calverton, Victor (1932). For Revolution. New York: John Day.
20. Kallen, Horace (1932). College Prolongs Infancy. New York: John Day.
21. Gregg, Richard (1932). Gandhiism versus Socialism. New York: John Day.
22. Buck, Pearl (1932). Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?. New York: John Day.
23. Chase, Stuart (1933). Technocracy: An Interpretation. New York: John Day.
24. Einstein, Albert (1933). The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. New York: John Day.
25. Melvin, Arthur (1933). Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership. New York: John Day.
26. Strachey, John (1933). Unstable Money. New York: John Day.
27. Benkert, Ambrose (1933). How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression. New York: John Day.
28. Clinchy, Everett (1933). The Strange Case of Herr Hitler. New York: John Day.
29. Lippmann, Walter (1933). A New Social Order. New York: John Day.
30. White, Elwyn (1933). Alice Through the Cellophane. New York: John Day.
31. Nichols, Osgood (1933). Work Camps for America. New York: John Day.
32. Hacker, Louis (1933). The Farmer is Doomed. New York: John Day.
33. MacLeish, Archibald (1933). Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City. New York: John Day.
34. A Call to the Teachers of the Nation. New York: John Day. 1933.
35. Hazlitt, Henry (1933). Instead of Dictatorship. New York: John Day.
36. Chase, Stuart (1933). The Promise of Power. New York: John Day.
37. Josephson, Matthew (1933). Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany. New York: John Day.
38. Finkelstein, Maurice (1933). The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional?. New York: John Day.
39. Trotsky, Leon (1933). What Hitler Wants. New York: John Day.
40. Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!. New York: John Day. 1933.
41. Rugg, Harold (1933). Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems. New York: John Day.
42. Wolfe, Bertram (1934). Marx and America. New York: John Day.
43. Childs, Marquis (1934). Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled. New York: John Day.
44. Salter, Arthur (1934). Toward a Planned Economy. New York: John Day.
45. Filene, Edward (1934). The Consumer's Dollar. New York: John Day.
46. Holmes, John (1934). Is Suicide Justifiable?. New York: John Day.
47. Philips, Mary (1934). Discovering Consumers. New York: John Day.
48. Rorty, James (1934). Order on the Air!. New York: John Day.
49. Chase, Stuart (1934). Move the Goods!. New York: John Day.