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“Nor was Gollancz ever short of quality books to send them.”
“Gollancz had chosen his moment well.”
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“Lucrative contracts with local authority libraries and educational administrations helped bolster the bottom line.”
“None of the shops opened by the major booksellers overlapped geographically.”
“The other major bookselling innovation of the era was the foundation of Penguin Books by Allen Lane in 1935.”
“Similar arrangements were in place in France and would be adopted elsewhere in Europe during the course of the century.”
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“In 1937, Foyles started the Right Book Club, a rather feeble counterweight to Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club.”
“All this, not to mention the famous literary lunches initiated by Christina Foyle in 1930 and a fixture in the literary calendar for eighty years.”
“* William and Gilbert Foyle were originally destined for a career in the British civil service.”
“London dealers worked closely with their American counterparts: during the 1920s they would expect to see them in London once a year, buying for stock.”
“Bookshop owners were also none too keen to stock the neat little paperbacks with which Lane toured the country.”
“Members flooded in, 20,000 in the first year and 39,000 by March 1937.”
“Heffers had bespoke children’s and paperback shops, Blackwell’s separate music and art shops.”
“Of course, just as with the paperback, the dust jacket was not an invention of the twentieth century.”
“Britain, though, could claim primacy in the organization of the rare book trade, with the establishment of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association in 1906.”
“The Left Book Club also had its subscribers and discussion groups in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, though Left News was banned in India.”
“Penguin never looked back: indeed it soon branched out into non-fiction (Pelicans) and commissioning original titles.”
“Both Blackwell’s and Heffers had an admired antiquarian wing, and both became publishers.”
“Germany also boasted the oldest booksellers’ association in the world, the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, founded in 1825.”
“With books as their foundation stone, all of these businesses could spread their influence into almost every element of information culture.”
“Th is was the age of the marquee label: Hatchards (founded 1797) sharing the London market with Foyles, Blackwell’s in Oxford (1879), Heffers in Cambridge (1876).”
“Gollancz could with justice claim that he had created the most active political organization in Britain, though with the declaration of war in 1939, it all came crashing down.”
“Like other clubs, Gollancz expanded its service to additional, supplementary and educational texts, all optional.”