Fly-by-night

In my last Orwell post I discussed the US paperback editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four published by New American Library (NAL) from 1950 to current. The UK equivalent is Penguin. Oddly Penguin took five years to first pub...

Between 1949 and 1959 Toronto mass market paperback publisher Harlequin published 455 titles that are new editions of books published earlier. Here I listed the 89 for which Harlequin retitled thei...

Wm Collins Sons & Co. Canada Ltd (Toronto) published 429 titles in their White Circle Pocket Edition paperback reprint line from 1942 until 1952. All but nine are new editions of previously published books but Collins never included the original publication information and for sixteen books titles were changed.

 Part I lists all the original publishers for the White Circle Pocket Edition (1942-1952) mass market paperback imprint of the Toronto based subsidiary of Scottish/British publisher Wm. C...

The Toronto based subsidiary of Scottish/British publisher Wm. Collins published 429 titles in a numbered mass market imprint from 1942 to 1952. Only nine of the White Circle Pocket Edition titles are paperback originals with the remainder (420) new editions of previously published books. I have identified the original publisher for 416 of those books. There are 45 publishers...