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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 26, 2010 14:05:26 GMT
Maybe Andreas can help us out on this one a little?
I've recently bought a paperback copy of Hugh Walpole's All Souls Night, published in English by the German publishers Tauchnitz in 1933. While I believe they published the more literary end of things - does any one have more information on any ghost/horror stuff they did? And did they end during WW2? Can't seem to find anything about them after then.
Seems amazing that they were at the forefront of paperback publishing before the mass market paperback came into vogue!
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Post by Steve on Jan 26, 2010 18:18:55 GMT
I've recently bought a paperback copy of Hugh Walpole's All Souls Night, published in English by the German publishers Tauchnitz in 1933. While I believe they published the more literary end of things - does any one have more information on any ghost/horror stuff they did? And did they end during WW2? Can't seem to find anything about them after then. According to the British Library, who hold a large collection of Tauchnitz editions, the business ended in 1943. You can search the British Library's catalogue online. Haven't had chance to look through all 6700 Tauchnitz titles in their collection but a quick search turned up stuff such as F. Marion Crawford's The Witch of Prague, a collection of Poe Tales, some William Harrison Ainsworth, some Wilkie Collins, that kind of thing but, as you say, they really seem to have been more at the literary end. |
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Post by andydecker on Jan 26, 2010 19:20:21 GMT
Tauchnitz was a publisher in Leipzig, established in 1837. Seemed he did a lot of international editions in this age. I never knew he existed. According to an article I found Tauchnitz 1841 published english language editions in a kind of paperback, mainly for english tourists traveling in trains. So the books were mainly avaibale at train-stations and are seen as forerunners of the later paperbacks. So I guess we know now what Jonathan Harker read on the train to Budapest  I only found this: Tauchnitz international editions in English, 1841-1955 : a bibliographical history / by William B. Todd and Ann Bowden |
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 27, 2010 12:32:35 GMT
cheers folks!
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