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How Penguin learned to fly – Allen Lane and the Penguin ‘Original Ten’

Posted by Aruna at November 28, 2013 in editor's choice &the literary lounge

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How Penguin learned to fly – Allen Lane and the Penguin ‘Original Ten’

  The Bodley Head found itself, at the beginning of the week, sold out of ‘Penguins’, 150,000 having been sold out in four days.… — The Bookseller, 8 August 1935, a week after Penguin’s launch   In the early 1930s, Allen Lane, then director of The Bodley Head publishers, was returning from a weekend stay … Continue readings →

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