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London and the Modernist Bookshop

London and the Modernist Bookshop

Paperback

Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

Business of Writing

ISBN10: 1108708692
ISBN13: 9781108708692
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 14 2020
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
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.

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