Thomas L. Bonn Research Files 1935-1983 [Bulk Dates: 1939-1941].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Thomas L. Bonn Research Files 1935-1983 [Bulk Dates: 1939-1941].

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6764611

This collection consists primarily of documents relating to the founding and early years of Pocket Books, a New York publishing firm, and its founder, Robert De Graff. The collection also includes several research notes and articles written by Thomas Bonn, a librarian and historian whose work centered largely on Pocket Books in the early 1980s.

0.42 linear ft. ( 1 document box).

eng,

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6347599

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Sears, Roebuck and Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt4j4m (corporateBody)

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

Simon and Schuster Inc

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xh3m1d (corporateBody)

Simon and Schuster had been a publisher of English translations of Werfel's works in the 1920s and 1930s (by the time of this correspondence, those rights had been transferred to Viking Press). Richard Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster were the founders and heads of the company, which was based in New York City; they maintained a personal friendship with Werfel and Alma Mahler. Howe was an editor at Simon and Schuster. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Wer...

Avon Books.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b69hj (corporateBody)

Bonn, Thomas L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62p9rzd (person)

Thomas Bonn was the librarian at the State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland. He authored two books on paperback cover art; as background and research material he interviewed numerous artists, illustrators, art directors, and publishers. From the guide to the Thomas Bonn Collection of Publishers' Interviews, 1971-1981, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) BIOGHIST REQUIRED While serving during the 1970s and 1980s as a librari...