BEST WORLD'S SELLERS
AMONG £2,605,281 WORTH OF BOOKS EXPORTED IN WAR TIME
Shakespeare and the Bible remain the "best sellers" in the vast total of £2,605,281. worth of books sent overseas, despite the paper shortage, by British publishers during the first nine months of 1940.
Australia was easily the biggest purchaser with the United States second, and South Africa, Eire, Canada, India and New Zealand all high in the list.
England's largest bookbinding .firm is sending huge weekly shipments oil' to Enipire countries, notably to South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. They have not lest a single book.
Ihe /inn, which has bound many of the world's most famous manuscripts, maintains continuous research in all Ihe processes necessary lor colouring skins for bookbinding, and checks the results by an expert leather chemist.
After testing leathers under severe conditions it has been found that the native tanning of Nigerian leathers is the most effective in protecting leather from injury.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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158BEST WORLD'S SELLERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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