A life in fifty books / Anthony Cheetham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheetham, Anthony (Anthony John Valerian), 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheetham, Anthony (Anthony John Valerian), 1943-.

Cheetham, Anthony.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Life in 50 books

Publisher's memoir.

Place of Publication:

London : Head of Zeus, 2025.

Summary:

"Anthony Cheetham, one of Britain's outstanding publishers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, looks back on the six decades of his long and successful career through the prism of fifty books. Full of encounters with remarkable individuals and embellished with book covers from the nineteenth century to the present day, A life in fifty books is an engagingly written survey of an industry which, in its author's words, offers its practitioners 'a passport to roam across the entire spectrum of human experience, endeavour [endeavor] and belief'"--Back cover.

Contents:

Prologue

Vienna 1946-9

Summer Fields 1950-5

A King's Scholar at Eton 1956-61

Balliol College, Oxford 1962-4

A Year in Norway 1965

The New English Library 1966-8

Sphere Books 1969-72

Futura Publications 1973-81

Working for Robert Maxwell 1981-2

Century Publishing 1982-5

Century Hutchinson 1985-9

Random House 1989-91

The Orion Publishing Group 1991-2003

The French Connection 2003

Quercus Publishing 2004-09

Atlantic Books 2009-11

Head of Zeus 2012-24

Bloomsbury 2021-4

The Future of Book Publishing

Epilogue

Bibliography

Image Credits.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover subtitle: "A publisher's memoir"

ISBN:

9781035912766

1035912767

OCLC:

1437990362

Publisher Number:

CIPO000120094