6,000,000 BOOKS IN ASHES
Six million books were destroyed In and around Paternoster Row during the big fire-bomb raid on the City on Dccembef 29. They included the remaining stocks of the unexpurgated English edition of Hitler's "Mein Kampf.'* The premises of 37 publishers "were damag&l or burnt out, including tlicseWlP Blackwotfd's; W. M. Collins; Eyre and, Spottiswoode; Hodder and Stoughton;- Hutchinson's; Longmans' Green; Nelson's iYVard; Lock; Sampson Low; and! Sinfpkin Marshall. The building of Ivor NTcholson arfd Waston is almost the sole , survivor in Paternoster Row. Many iifithors' contracts, copy lights and statements of roj r dW;y accounts were destroyed, but the loss of manuscripts is not sariou-s. TWe premises of the Oxford University Press in Warwick-iScp«E*r« were not damaged. / i ~ 1 l| " * ' —'—
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 5
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1246,000,000 BOOKS IN ASHES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 5
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