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The Albatross Library 366

1947; Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Dust jacket edition Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff's uitgeversmaatschappij NV te Leiden. inside is stated: Printed and made by Arnoldo Mondadori in Verona ( Italy)

 

Together with Tauchnitz Editions, The Albatross Modern Continal Library where the first publishers who had succes by selling paperbacks in Europe. They began to lose business when Penguin and Pelican took sales away from both of them. The international copyright conventions and legal problems plagued both Tauchnitz and Albatross, and neither survived.

 

[Source: The Book of paperbacks by Piet Schreuders]

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