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Two books in editions from the Left Book Club: In Search of the Millennium, by Julius Braunthal (1945), and On the Top of the World by L. Brontman (1938). The Left Book Club, founded in May 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and the 1940s in the United Kingdom.
Ian Maxted (ed.), Exeter Working Papers in Book History "Publications". Bibliographical Society. 6 January 2013. (Includes works about history of books in the UK) BibSite – via Bibliographical Society of America. (Includes articles on UK book history) University of London’s Society of Bibliophiles; David Finkelstein; Alistair McCleery (eds.).
Cave, Roderick & Sarah Mason, A History of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1920–1960 (2002. British Library & Oak Knoll Press) Nash, Paul W., Folio 50: a bibliography of the Folio Society, 1947–1996 (1997. Folio Press in association with The British Library) Nash, Paul W. Folio 60: a bibliography of the Folio Society, 1947–2006 (2007. Folio ...
In May 1936, the Left Book Club had been established, and towards the end of 1936 a group of “neo-Tories” mooted the idea of a right-wing book club. Christina Foyle and her father William Foyle undertook to organize it, and the Club was launched at a luncheon at the Grosvenor House Hotel in April 1937, with John Baird, 1st Viscount ...
The BCA logo. Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom.It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K.
John Freeth and his Circle or Birmingham Men of the Last Century - members of the Birmingham Book Club pictured in 1792 by John Eckstein.. The Birmingham Book Club, known to its opponents during the 1790s as the Jacobin Club due to its political radicalism, [1] and at times also as the Twelve Apostles, [2] was a book club and debating society based in Birmingham, England from the 18th to the ...
Whereas the shop used to sell second-hand and new books side by side on the same shelves, it now primarily sells books in print, like other large chain bookshops, but with a notably larger range of titles on every subject. It also now sells second-hand and out-of-print books together with new books in its art, history and archaeology departments.
In January 1762, a private society was established at 50 Pall Mall by Messrs. Boothby and James in response to having been blackballed for membership of White's.This society then split to form the predecessors of both Brooks's and Boodle's.