Word: crespin
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Editions de la Maison Française, in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, is run by a wispy, gentle, bespectacled little Frenchman named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France's downfall André Maurois dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing...
Tragédie en France came out last November; by last week 17 others had been added to Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains...