Summary Information
At a Glance
Bib ID: | 4078352 View CLIO record |
Creator(s): | House of Books, Ltd. |
Title: | House of Books, Ltd. Records,
1875-1984
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Physical description: | 42 linear feet (86 boxes)
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Language(s): | In English
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Access: |
Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.
Business records closed until 2000.
The following boxes are located off-site: 10-85. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
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Description
Scope and Content
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, business records, book catalogs and other printed materials of Louis and Marguerite Cohn and their customers, associates and friends. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benʹet, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore, all among the authors represented in the Crown Octavos series published by the House of Books; there are also manuscripts, proofs and correspondence with printers for this series. Other correspondents include Cyril Connolly, W. Somerset Maugham and Tom Stoppard. Also in the collection are letters and manuscripts from the stock of the shop; notable among these are a series of Graham Greene letters and pages from an autograph book which contains entries from many turn of the century American Literary figures. The collection also include the personal memorabilia of the Cohn and Arnold families. Louis Cohn's participation in World War I as an officer in the French Army is recorded in photographs, documents and memorabilia. Marguerite's childhood collections, among them many early greeting cards, are also included.
Series I: Catalogued Correspondence
Series II: Catalogued Manuscripts
Series III: Catalogued Documents
Series IV: Catalogued Photographs
Series V: Cataloged Art Works
Series VI: Arranged Correspondence
Series VII: Crown Octavos arranged materials
Sereis VIII: Writings and Memorabilia
Series IX: Closed Materials
Series X: Ephemera
Series XI: Photographs
Series XII: Papers and photographs of Capt. Louis Henry Cohn
Gift of Carol Rothkopf, 2016. Accn #2016.2017.M105
Collection of World War I photographs and ephemera relating to Cohn's military service and work as correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle and others
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Using the Collection
Partially Offsite
Access Restrictions
Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.
Business records closed until 2000.
The following boxes are located off-site: 10-85. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Restrictions on Use
Readers must use microfilm of materials specified above.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Preferred Citation
House of Books, Ltd. Records. Rare Book and Manuscript
Library. Columbia University.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Business records and stock of shop Processed 1985 JCA
Papers Processed 1985 JCA/JL-W
Stoppard playscript Cataloged 07/23/1992 HR
Letters & memorabilia Cataloged & processed 10/06/1998 HR
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
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Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Genre/Form
Subjects
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American literature--20th century. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Booksellers and bookselling. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Bookstores--United States. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Consuls. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
English literature--20th century. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Publishers and publishing. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Soldiers. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Stoppard, Tom. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
World War, 1914-1918--France. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
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History / Biographical Note
History
Louis Henry Cohn, 1888-1953, and Marguerite Arnold Cohn, 1887-1984, opened the House of Books on October 10, 1930. The bookstore specialized in 20th century British and American first editions and brought the Cohns into contact with many of the major literary figures of the century.
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