London and the Modernist Bookshop
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:14th May '20
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Explores how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking.
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.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.
'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, Art History
ISBN: 9781108708692
Dimensions: 180mm x 125mm x 5mm
Weight: 800g
75 pages