Review: George Allen & Unwin. A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin
Marcel R. Bülles
The Travelling Tolkienist | Translator & Independent Tolkien scholar and facilitator at Tolkien fandom
Ludlow : Merlin Unwin Books, 2021.
Publication date, UK: March 5th.
Pages: 304.
ISBN: 978187367437
In 1999, Rayner Unwin privately published this book to give away to former George Allen & Unwin employees and colleagues, amounting to fewer than a hundred copies; Merlin Unwin Books, an imprint by his son Merlin, has now reprinted it, after many years of fans clamouring for it.
These three hundred pages provide you with insights to a medium-sized publishing house in the United Kingdom that managed to bring together a very eclectic roster of authors and a wide range of topics, some of which provided bestselling titles, among them works by J.R.R. Tolkien, Thor Heyerdahl, and Roald Dahl.
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