Pantheon Books records, 1944-1968

Pantheon Books records, 1944-1968

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0970
Bib ID:
4079194 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Pantheon Books
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
18 linear feet (39 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

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.

Description

Summary

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.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

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 Governing Use and Reproduction

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

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pantheon Books records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Random House via Donald Klopfer. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--04/16/1973. Accession number--M-73-04-16.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2014-03-12 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Announcements
Applications
Book jackets
Book reviews
Contracts
Dummies (printed matter)
Financial records
Galley proofs
Invoices
Lists (document genres)
Memorandums
Notes (documents)
Page proofs
Photographs
Press releases
Proofs (printed matter)
Publishers' catalogs
Reports
Name
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
Place
American literature
Subject
Authors
Authors
Authors and publishers
Book designers
Book editors
Editors
Literary agents
Literature publishing
Novelists
Poets
Publishers and publishing
Publishers and publishing
Scholarly publishing

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence


Box Cataloged Correspondence

Cataloged Correspondence (1 Box)

Series II: Alphabetical Files


Box 1

A. Alvarez


Box 1

Animal Book


Box 1

Antonio Barolini


Box 1

Michael Becker


Box 1

George J. Becker


Box 1

Joseph Bedier


Box 1

Georges Bernanos


Box 1

François Billetdoux


Box 1

William Birmingham


Box 1

Marc Bloch


Box 1

Bollingen Series


Box 2

Ann Boronik


Box 2

Louis Bouyer


Box 2

John Bowman


Box 2

Roman Bratny


Box 2

Herman Broch


Box 2

Bryher


Box 2

Jacob Burckhardt


Box 3

R.L.N. Burns


Box 3

Roger Callois


Box 3

Albert Camus


Box 3

Casanova Correspondence


Box 3

Giuseppe Cassieri


Box 3

Carlo Cassola


Box 4

David Caute


Box 4

Arthur A, Cohen


Box 4

Anaida Coomaraswamy


Box 4

T.H. Croxall


Box 4

Rene Daumal


Box 4

William Demby


Box 4

Denis de Rougement


Box 5

Charles de Tolnay


Box 5

Ghislain de Diesbach


Box 5

Elizabeth Dored .


Box 5

James Drawbell


Box 6

Alfred Duggan


Box 6

Petru Dumitriu


Box 7

Heinrich Dumoulin


Box 7

Eliot Elisofon & Alan Moorehead


Box 7

David Ely


Box 7

Philippe Erlanger


Box 7

Joseph M. Espinas


Box 8

Luc Estang


Box 8

Lucette Finas


Box 8

Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain


Box 8

Jean Forton


Box 8

Gerd Gaiser


Box 8

Mere Genevieve Gallois & Gregory Borgstedt


Box 8

Frank Getlein


Box 8

Etienne Gilson


Box 8

Goethe


Box 9

Robort Goldwater


Box 9

Daniel Gordon


Box 9

W. Grossouw


Box 9

Romano Guardini


Box 9

Michael Hamberger


Box 9

Esther Harding


Box 9

Charles Hayden


Box 9

S.W. Hayter


Box 9

Max Hayward


Box 9

Raymond Headlee


Box 9

William Higgs


Box 9

Richard Hough


Box 10

Harold Ingholt


Box 10

Eugene Ionosco


Box 10

Hans Jantzen


Box 10

Karl Jaspers


Box 10

Sean Jennett


Box 10

James Jo11


Box 10

Frank Kelley


Box 10

Yashar Kemal


Box 10

Alfred Kern


Box 11

Leon Keyserling


Box 11

Yves J. Kran & Edward M. Brown


Box 11

Monique Lange


Box 11

Anna Langfus


Box 11

Joachim Leithauser


Box 11

Norman Lewis


Box 11

Theo Lobsack


Box 11

Longus


Box 11

Isley de Courey Lyons


Box 11

Jacques Maritain


Box 11

Arthur Marwick


Box 11

Ana Maria Matute


Box 12

E.L. McAdam, Jr.


Box 12

Eleanor McKinney


Box 13

John Meyendorff


Box 13

Czeslaw Milesz


Box 13

Indro Montanelli


Box 13

James Morris


Box 14

Cjristian Murciaux


Box 14

Victor Nekrasov


Box 14

Erich Neumann


Box 14

Isamu Neguchi


Box 15

O


Box 15

Flann O'Brien


Box 15

Heinrich Oberjohann


Box 15

John M. Oesterreicher


Box 15

Kladen Oljaca


Box 15

Ortega y Gasset


Box 15

Richard Ott


Box 15

Walter Otto


Box 15

John Parke


Box 16

Pascal


Box 16

Pier Paolo Pasolini


Box 16

Norman Perason


Box 16

Diana Petre


Box 16

Henri Peyre


Box 16

Daniel Pezeril


Box 16

Picasso in Antibes


Box 16

Q


Box 16

S. Fischer Verlag (Querido)


Box 16

Quong Rose


Box 16

R


Box 17

PA-Rie


Box 17

Rif-Rz


Box 17

Gustav Rab


Box 17

Hugo Rahner


Box 17

Raja Rao


Box 17

Herbert Read


Box 18

H.A. Reinhold


Box 18

Klara G. Roman


Box 18

Routledge & Regan Oaul, Ltd.


Box 18

Ariane Ruskin


Box 18

John Ryan


Box 18

S


Box 19

Sa-Sch


Box 19

Sci-Sz


Box 19

Stefan Salter


Box 19

Editorial Seix Barral


Box 20

Marion Saunders


Box 20

Schockern Books, Inc.


Box 20

Verlag Gerhard Schulte-Bulmke


Box 20

Secker & Warburg Ltd.


Box 20

Kurt Seligman


Box 20

Ben Shahn


Box 20

Mikhail Sholokov


Box 20

Maria Shrady


Box 21

Edward Sillem


Box 21

Charles S. Singleton


Box 21

Albert Skira


Box 21

Lacey Baldwin Smith


Box 21

Richard Wilson Snibbe


Box 21

Frederic Spiegelberg


Box 21

Tom Stacey


Box 21

David Stacton


Box 21

Enid Starkie


Box 21

Richard Sterba


Box 22

Dr. Wolf Strache


Box 22

Helena Strassova


Box 22

Jean Seznec


Box 22

Jonathan Swift


Box 22

T


Box 22

Mak Tau


Box 22

Abram Tertz


Box 23

Abram Tertz


Box 23

Thames & Hudson Ltd.


Box 23

Jurgen Thorwald


Box 23

Lydia Tolstoy (Mrs. Ivan)


Box 23

Trapp Family


Box 23

Martin Tunnell


Box 23

David Tutaev


Box 24

U


Box 24

V


Box 24

F. Van der Meer


Box 24

Gerald Vann


Box 24

Steingruben Verlag


Box 24

W


Box 24

Wa-Wer


Box 24

Wes-Wz


Box 24

Jonathan Wade


Box 25

Ann Watkins


Box 25

Adele Weibel


Box 25

Herbert Weinstock


Box 25

Eithne Wilkins


Box 25

Kurt Wolff


Box 25

W-Y-Z


Box 25

Mikhail Zoschenko


Box 26

Catalogues

Series III: Addition of Correspondence with Authors, Agents, and Publishers, circa, 1962-1968


Box 27

A, (2 folders)


Box 27

Abels, Cyrilly


Box 27

Allen & Unwin, (2 folders)


Box 27

Am-Rus Agency


Box 27

Applications for Employment, (2 folders)


Box 27

Arnaud, Odette


Box 27

Ashley-Steiner


Box 27

B, (2 folders)


Box 27

B-Bi


Box 27

Bach, Julian


Box 27

Barrie & Rockliff


Box 27

Bartlett, F. Lewis


Box 27

Bauke, Joseph


Box 27

Beacon Press


Box 28

Bj-Bz


Box 28

Bjurstrom, (4 folders)


Box 28

Blackburn, Sara, (3 folders)


Box 28

Bodley Head


Box 29

Bollingen


Box 29

Bollingen Catalog


Box 29

Bompiani


Box 29

Bonniers, (3 folders)


Box 29

Book of the Month Club


Box 29

Borchardt, (3 folders)


Box 29

Brandt & Brandt


Box 29

Brown, Curtis, (2 folders)


Box 30

Brown, Curtis


Box 30

Burns & Oates


Box 30

C (general)


Box 30

Cape, Jonathan


Box 30

Caute, John


Box 30

Chambrun, Jacques


Box 30

Chapman & Hall Ltd.


Box 30

Chatto and Windus


Box 30

Clairouin


Box 30

Classen Verlag


Box 30

Coen, Fabio


Box 30

Cohen, Arthur


Box 30

Colin, Rosica


Box 30

Collins-Knowlton-Wing Inc.


Box 30

Collins Publishers


Box 30

Constable Publisher


Box 30

Corrections ordered or rejected


Box 30

Correspondence


Box 30

Cushman, John, Associates, Inc.


Box 30

D (general)


Box 31

D (general)


Box 31

Daves, Joan


Box 31

Deutsch, Andre


Box 31

Deutsche Verlag


Box 31

E (general)


Box 31

Editorial meetings


Box 31

Einaudi


Box 31

F (general), (2 folders)


Box 31

Faber and Faber


Box 31

Faber, 1969


Box 31

Feltrinelli


Box 31

Fles, Barthold


Box 31

Folio (Pacifica)


Box 31

Foreign Rights


Box 31

G (general)


Box 32

G (general)


Box 32

Gallimard


Box 32

Geisenheyner


Box 32

General Office Information


Box 32

Gollancz


Box 32

Goverts Verlag, Henry


Box 32

Green, Peter


Box 32

Greenburger, Sanford


Box 32

Gruppe 47


Box 32

Guggenheim


Box 32

Gyldendal


Box 32

Gyldendal Norsk


Box 32

H (general), (2 folders)


Box 32

Hanser Verlag


Box 32

Harvill Press


Box 32

Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1963-[1968]


Box 32

Wm. Heinemann, 1969


Box 32

Hellmer, Kurt


Box 32

Hinshaw and Stuhlmann


Box 32

Hodder and Stoughton


Box 33

Horch


Box 33

Hutchinson


Box 33

I (general)


Box 33

Insel Verlag


Box 33

J (general), (2 folders)


Box 33

Joseph, Michael


Box 33

Josephson, Marvin, (2 folders)


Box 33

K (general)


Box 33

Kaminsky, Howard--memos to


Box 33

Klausner, Bertha


Box 33

Kösel Verlag


Box 33

L (general), (2 folders)


Box 33

Lattmann--reading reports


Box 34

Lattmann--Correspondence w/ publishers


Box 34

Lattmann--Letters


Box 34

Lesh, Linda


Box 34

Longmans, Green


Box 34

Lord, Sterling


Box 34

M (general), (2 folders)


Box 35

Mc (general)


Box 35

Matson, Harold


Box 35

Methuen


Box 35

Milford, Toni


Box 35

Mirsky, Jeannette


Box 35

Miscellaneous


Box 35

Mondadori


Box 35

Murray, John


Box 35

Myrdal, Gunnar


Box 35

Myrdal, Jan


Box 35

N (general)


Box 36

Norstedt & Soner


Box 36

Notre Dame Regnery


Box 36

Nymphenburger


Box 36

O (general)


Box 36

Ober, Harold


Box 36

Owen, Peter


Box 36

P (general), (2 folders)


Box 36

Payments--free lancers


Box 36

Pearson, Normal Holmes


Box 36

Penguin, (3 folders)


Box 37

Pieper, Dr. J.


Box 37

Piper Verlag


Box 37

Pollitt, B.H.


Box 37

Presses Universitaires de France


Box 37

Q (general)


Box 37

R (general)


Box 37

Rabkin, Richard Shelved off-site"


Box 37

Read, P. P.


Box 37

Reprints and Reissues


Box 37

Reynolds, Paul


Box 37

Rodell, M., & J. Davis


Box 37

Rosenthal, Ray


Box 37

Routledge & K. Paul


Box 37

Rowohlt Verlag


Box 37

Russell & Volkenign


Box 37

S (general), (3 folders)


Box 38

Schabert


Box 38

Schedules


Box 38

Schaffner


Box 38

Seeker and Warburg


Box 38

Sharpe, Tom


Box 38

Sidgwich & Jackson


Box 38

Spodheim


Box 38

Stationery


Box 38

Strassova


Box 38

T (general)


Box 38

Tavistock


Box 38

V (general)


Box 38

W (general ), (2 folders)


Box 38

Weidenfeld & Nicolson


Box 38

Weiner, Joyce


Box 38

White, Clare


Box 38

Wing, Willis Kingsley


Box 38

Wolff, Helen & Kurt


Box 38

Wolff, Konrad


Box 38

X-Y-Z (general)