Marion B. Stanton Collection

Collection

Identifier: SpC-1000-008

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Marion B. Stanton Collection consists of 167 twentieth-century first edition and notable press books. The collection features works by authors such as John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, among many others. Eighty-two volumes are currently in circulation with another eighty-five housed in special collections. The collection was donated by WMC alum, Marion Stanton, class of 1919.

Dates

1923 - 1976

Conditions Governing Access

Special Collections material does not circulate. To view volumes in special collections, please contact the college archives.

Conditions Governing Use

McDaniel College makes no representation that it is the owner of any copyright or other literary property in the materials contained in its archives and special collections, (b) that in providing access to or permitting the reproduction of any such materials, the McDaniel College Archives does not assume any responsibility for obtaining or granting any permission to publish or use the same, and (c) that the responsibility (i) for determining the nature of any rights, and the ownership or interest therein, and for obtaining the appropriate permissions to publish or use and (ii) for determining the nature of any liabilities (including liabilities for defamation and invasion of privacy or publicity) that may arise from any publication or use, rest entirely with the researcher.

Extent

167 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

To view individual titles in this collection in special collections, please visit the Hoover Library catalog.

To view circulation collections, please visit the archives' website.