The Unpublished Memoir of Simon & Schuster's Co-Founder

simon schusterThe price tag, $5,000, is steep. But given the author and subject matter – “An unpublished look at American publishing history and practice” – someone is bound (pun intended) to snap up the manuscript.

Written in the late 1950s, Fools Give You Reasons is an 84-page marked-up professional memoir from Simon & Schuster co-founder Richard Simon. As Rebecca Rego Barry, who once worked at Simon & Schuster, blogs:

Several of Simon’s contemporaries published memoirs of their lives in books, e.g.

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