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Pantheon’s founder, Kurt Wolff, was born in Germany in 1887 to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother. He studied German literature and in 1913, founded Kurt WolffVerlag. Among the authors he published were Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, and in German translation, Emile Zola, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, and Sinclair Lewis. Admiring the way young up-and coming American publishers such Alfred A. Knopf and Random House’s Bennett Cerf employed contemporary, cutting-edge artists for text design, book jackets, and newspaper advertising, he did likewise, for which he was criticized by other German publishers. The deteriorating German economic conditions forced Wolff to close Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1930, and the changing political climate resulted in his decision to emigrate in 1933. He spent several years in France and then in Italy, where he became publishers of Pantheon Case Editrice, which he had co-founded in 1924. Wolff and his wife, Helen, emigrated to the United States in 1941. Within a year, they founded Pantheon Books in a one-room office in lower Manhattan. Wolff specialized in publishing literature in translation by authors such as Hermann Broch, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Boris Pasternak, Karl Jung and Gunter Grass. He also published important works on art history. In 1961, Bennett Cerf bought Pantheon and it became a part of Random House. Today, Pantheon is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and continues to publish world-class literature. Pantheon’s authors include Julia Glass, James Gleick, Ha Jin, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Alexander McCall Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Art Spiegelman, and Studs Terkel.

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Children at War

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Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

MSRP $25.00

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Cobra II - The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

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Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

MSRP $27.95

Confederates in the Attic - Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

Flight - A Panorama of Aviation

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Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

Goofy - Walt Disney Best Comics

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

MSRP $39.95

In the Shadow of No Towers

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth

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Last Look Trilogy #1 - X'ed Out

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

MSRP $19.95

Last Look Trilogy #2 - The Hive

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

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Maus - A Survivor's Tale #1 - My Father Bleeds History

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

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Maus - A Survivor's Tale #2 - And Here My Trouble Began

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Maus - A Survivor's Tale, Complete Series #1-2

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

(dust jacket VG)

Total War - The Story of World War II

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Product Line: Historical Books (Pantheon Books)

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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse In Color

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Product Line: Graphic Novels - Alternative (Pantheon Books)

MSRP $39.95

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Acme Novelty Library, The

Acme Novelty Library, The

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Beyond Competition

Beyond Competition

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Stock #: 394-83605-7

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Black Hole

Building Stories

Cop Killer - The Story of a Crime

By: Pantheon Books

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Extra Lives - Why Video Games Matter

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Gamut of Games, A

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Gamut of Games, A

Gamut of Games, A

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Korea - The Unkown War

Korea - The Unkown War

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Stock #: 0-394-55366-7

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Last Look Trilogy #3 - Sugar Skull

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Minority Report

Minority Report

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Stock #: 0-375-42187-4

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Modern Soviet Society

Modern Soviet Society

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Quimby the Mouse

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Rabbi's Cat, The

Rabbi's Cat, The

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Stock #: 0-375-42281-1

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