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The Albatross Library 569

1947; Runyon a la Carte by Damon Runyon.

Dust jacket edition Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori. inside it is stated: Printed and made by A.W. Sijthoff's uitgeversmij NV te Leiden ( Leyden) The Netherlands

 

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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