The firm relocated from Manhattan to Briarcliff Manor, New York in 1975,[3] and published about 100 books a year until the company declared bankruptcy in 1987, selling its backlist in 1988.
[6] The New York Times wrote, "He has produced an appalling, Dickensian portrait of the entire system...ought to be read not only by executives facing Chapter 11 but by all entrepreneurs and indeed by anyone who fantasizes about running his own company.
Columbia University holds the Stein and Day Archives, which chronicles the firm's 27 years of existence.
[8] Stein and Day published works by Leslie Fiedler, David Frost, Jack Higgins, Dylan Thomas, Budd Schulberg, Claude Brown, Bertram Wolfe, Harry Lorayne, Wanda Landowska and Marilyn Monroe, among others.
B. Priestley, Eric Partridge, Maxim Gorky, Che Guevara, L. P. Hartley, and George Bernard Shaw.