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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108769853

Book description

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.

Reviews

‘Chambers has produced a fascinating, elegantly written history of one bookseller, one bookshop, one historic publishing street that, despite its brevity, is rich in detail.’

Allan Madden Source: Art History

Archival Collections

  • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

  • Marshall Library Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Marx Memorial Library, London

  • Centre for Research Collections, The University of Edinburgh

  • People’s History Museum, Manchester

  • Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, London

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