Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Pantheon Books
- Extent:
- 18 linear feet and 39 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pantheon Books records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Background
- Scope and Content:
The editorial and production files of Pantheon Books from 1944 through 1968. The correspondence from authors, agents, and publishers is written to Kurt and Helen Wolff, Jacques Schiffrin, André Schiffrin, and the editors of the firm. The files document the publication of works by A. Alvarez, Georges Bernanos, Hermann Broch, Jacob Burckhardt, Albert Camus, William Demby, Eugene Ionesco, Karl Jaspers, Winifred Bryher, Jacques Maritain, Isamu Noguchi, José Ortega y Gasset, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sir Herbert Read, Ben Shahn, and others.
- Acquisition information:
- Source of acquisition--Random House via Donald Klopfer. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--04/16/1973. Accession number--M-73-04-16.
- Processing information:
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.
- Arrangement:
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
- Accruals:
A large unprocessed accession is not reflected in this finding aid. A partial box list is available in repository. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Authors and publishers
Literature publishing
Scholarly publishing
Publishers and publishing
Literary agents
Book editors
Poets
Publishers and publishing
Authors
Authors
Book designers
Editors
Novelists
Announcements
Applications
Book jackets
Book reviews
Publishers' catalogs
Contracts
Dummies (printed matter)
Financial records
Galley proofs
Invoices
Lists (document genres)
Memorandums
Notes (documents)
Page proofs
Photographs
Press releases
Proofs (printed matter)
Reports - Names:
- Alvarez, A (Alfred), 1929-
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
Bernanos, Georges, 1888-1948
Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951
Bryher, 1894-1983
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Cousins, Norman
Demby, William
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977
Grass, Günter, 1927-2015
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907-1973
Hollo, Anselm
Ionesco, Eugène
Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969
Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970
Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973
Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Moorehead, Alan, 1910-1983
Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975
Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975
Pusey, Nathan M (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001
Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
Schiffrin, André
Schiffrin, Jacques
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998
Wolff, Helen, 1906-1994
Wolff, Kurt - Places:
- American literature
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Books published by Pantheon are located off-site. This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pantheon Books records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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6th Floor East Butler Library535 West 114th St.New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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(212) 854-5590rbml@library.columbia.edu