Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Market Forces and Modernisation in the French Book Trade in the Last Century of the ‘ Ancien Régime ’ and in the Early Nineteenth Century: Some Reflections on the Emergence of the Publisher’s Series

Chapter 3 The Paperback Revolution in France, 1850–1950

Chapter 4 Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright

Chapter 5 ‘To Undertake Such Works as They Find to Be Wanted’: The Early Years of the Clarendon Press Series

Chapter 6 Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap’s Poetry and Life Series, 1911–1930

Chapter 7 Excavating Original African American ‘Pulp Fiction’: W.W. Norton’s Old School Books

Chapter 8 The Symbiotic Relationship of Thomas Nelson & Sons and John Buchan within the Publisher’s Series

Chapter 9 The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries

Chapter 10 Sifting out ‘Rubbish’ in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library

Chapter 11 Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times