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[Agency] A. Richard Barber & Associates

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Hi. Has anyone any experience with this agency? Here are my discoveries:

Principal: A Richard Barber, A Richard Barber & Associates, 554 E. 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028, USA

Not much information in P&E: http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/peala.htm


A very detail and stellar CV in this SEC document.
http://www.secinfo.com/d1zNE3.22p.htm
Richard Barber - Director of eTotalSource, Inc., Founder and senior partner
of A. Richard Barber & Associates 1983-Present, a literary agency and consultant to numerous major publishing companies.
Director of Development for Network Enterprises, Inc., 1969-1983
Director and Senior Editor of Public Relations, Viking Penguin, Inc. Lecturer in publishing at New York, Harvard and Radcliff Universities, 1971-1989.
Academic Background is: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter Fellow in History (1963-1965), Columbia University, M.A, Ph.D (1962-1963). Course work at Dartmouth College, Special Dartmouth Fellow, A.B., and study programs with Corey Ford at Harvard, William &
Mary, University Of Michigan, British Museum, Oxford University and Columbia University (1961-1962).

Unfortunately Dr.Barber has only 1 hit on Amazon :-O :
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?u...words="Richard+Barber",++"Associates"&x=0&y=0
 

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Here's books he agented. Google Books finds more, plus some he edited while at Viking.
 

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Mentions fade after '11. Anyone have recent contact with him?