Word: bodley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English publishers used to say the same thing-until 1935. That year, in London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer...
...Craster, Bodley's Librarian from the Bodleian Library at Oxford, will be in Cambridge today to inspect the Widener Library. Additions and repairs are to be made ou the Bodley Library, and Mr. Craster has come to the United States to study the construction of numerous American libraries and gain some worthwhile ideas to take back to England...