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21-565: Manchester-born novelist Kahane began the Obelisk Press after his publisher, Grant Richards , went bankrupt . Going into partnership with a printer — Herbert Clarke, owner of Imprimerie Vendôme — Kahane, as "Cecil Barr", published his next novel Daffodil under his own imprint in 1931. A writer and publisher of "db's" ("dirty books"), Kahane mixed serious work with smut in his list; he has been described as "a quite bizarre blend of ultra-sophisticated, avant-garde literary entrepreneur and, by

42-723: A new publishing firm under the name E. Grant Richards (the first initial being added from his wife's name, Elisina). In 1908, he moved premises once again - to 8 St. Martin's Street - and began trading as Grant Richards Ltd. In this period, he published A Commentary (1908) by John Galsworthy , Spain, a Study of Her Life and Arts by Royall Tyler (1909), Dubliners (1914) and Exiles: A Play in Three Acts (1918) by James Joyce , The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell , and several works by John Masefield . He published Love's Wild Geese (1924) and several other books by Jack Kahane , who would later establish

63-622: A similar success). In 1907 Richards would publish the animal fable, The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen , for a similar audience and with similar success and it remains in print to this day. In 1898, he published books by major authors including the collection Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw and a new edition of A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman . In 1900 he published G. K. Chesterton 's first book, The Wild Knight and Other Poems , Saki 's The Rise of

84-758: The Grant Allen’s Historical Guides series and The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry into the Origins of Religion . In 1897, Richards began publishing Dumpy Books for Children , a series of small, pocket books for children. With their tiny size, charming stories and poems and coloured illustrations, the series was an instant success. "[T]he success of the Dumpy format encouraged other publishers to release small children’s books" (for example, in 1902 Frederick Warne issued Beatrix Potter 's series with

105-626: The High Street to its current Gilmorehill location in 1870. Consequently a great number of students live in the area. Many academics from the University live in the area along with BBC Scotland employees, actors, broadcasters , writers and many students from various universities and teaching hospitals , creating an economically and culturally diverse community. Other features of Hillhead include Ashton Lane , Western Baths , Hillhead High School , Glasgow Academy (a private school), and

126-738: The Kelvinbridge , which straddles the River Kelvin which used to form an eastern boundary between Hillhead and Glasgow, until Hillhead's incorporation into the city. The area is served by Hillhead subway station and Kelvinbridge subway station on the Glasgow Subway system. The two stops on either side of those are Kelvinhall in Partick , and St George's Cross in Woodlands . The neoclassical colonnaded Wellington Church

147-545: The American G.I.s passing through Paris on their return home, Miller's best-known works were republished alongside other English-language books, such as Memoirs of Fanny Hill . Girodias also published a few important works in French including George Bataille 's literary review Critique and Nikos Kazantzakis 's Alexis Zorbas (1947). Girodias largely abandoned the Obelisk Press name when he discovered that new titles under

168-611: The Parisian Obelisk Press in 1929. In 1926, Richards' firm became bankrupt once more. He thenceforth published under the name of the Richards Press and also Grant Richards Fronto Limited. Richards was the author of nine novels, beginning with the first three, Caviare (1912), Valentine (1913) and Bittersweet (1915). These three novels have been said to "capture the essence of romance – seeking love, fine food, fine wine and Paris". Richards's final novel

189-687: The Russian Empire and Ernest Bramah 's The Wallet of Kai Lung . In 1901 he published Fame and Fiction: An Enquiry into Certain Popularities by Arnold Bennett . In 1901 and 1903 he issued Erewhon Revisited and The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler . In 1901, he launched The World's Classics series of reprints of literary classics. While the titles in this series were mostly public domain books, Richards aimed to distinguish his series from those of his competitors by publishing well produced books at an affordable price. Unfortunately, when

210-1009: The United States; Obelisk published five more books by Miller, as well as Richard Aldington 's Death of a Hero (1930), Anaïs Nin 's Winter of Artifice (1939), Cyril Connolly 's first book and only novel, The Rock Pool (1936), James Joyce 's Haveth Childers Everywhere and Pomes Penyeach (1932), Frank Harris 's My Life and Loves (1934) and Lawrence Durrell 's The Black Book (1938), Squadron 95 by war hero Harold Buckley , James Hanley 's Boy (1935) and Some Limericks by Norman Douglas . He reprinted Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness , which had been banned in Britain in 1928. Kahane also published many forgotten authors, including Norah James , Canadian poet Laurence Bradford Dakin and Nadejda de Bragança . Kahane's wife Marcelle and their son Maurice (later known as Maurice Girodias ) worked as cover illustrators for

231-401: The imprint. Kahane died within days of the outbreak of World War II , having just finished his final book, on 3 September 1939. This book, Memoirs of a Booklegger , marked the end of Obelisk for several years, until his son (who took his mother's birth name, Girodias, during the war to evade detection as a Jew ) briefly revived it in the years following the war. Selling in large quantities to

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252-683: The name would not sell and he founded the Olympia Press in 1953. Grant Richards (publisher) Franklin Thomas Grant Richards (21 October 1872 – 24 February 1948) was a British publisher and writer. After creating his own publishing firm at the age of just 24 years old, he launched The World's Classics series (still published by Oxford University Press as Oxford World's Classics ) and published writers such as George Bernard Shaw , A. E. Housman , Samuel Butler and James Joyce . He made "a significant impact on

273-521: The period is recorded". Richards married twice. In 1898 he married Elisina Palamidessi de Castelvecchio (later known as Elisina Tyler, 1878–1959), the great-granddaughter of Napoleon ’s brother Louis . The couple had four children: Their marriage ended in divorce in 1914. On 2 July 1915, he married Maria Magdalena de Csanády (later known as Marie Madeleine Agnes Richards, born 1889/90). Richards died at 3 avenue des Citronniers, Monte Carlo , Monaco on 24 February 1948. His final address in Britain

294-619: The publishing business of the early twentieth century". He was born Franklin Thomas Grant Richards in University Hall, Hillhead , Partick , Lanarkshire on 21 October 1872. His father was Franklin Thomas Richards, a fellow and tutor of Trinity College , Oxford . From 1880, he attended school first at Langdale House, Oxford and later he attended the City of London School . Richards was close to Grant Allen , an uncle who

315-564: The series experienced a great success with the reading public, the undercapitalized firm went into heavy debt to meet the unexpected demand. This, along with firm's move to larger premises at 48 Leicester Square, led to bankruptcy and liquidation of the business in 1905. Henry Frowde, the manager of the Oxford University Press , purchased the series which continues to be published as Oxford World's Classics . Richards moved to smaller premises in 7 Carlton Street and established

336-541: The standards of his time, pornographer." He was able to take advantage of the fact that books published in France in English were not subject to the kind of censorship practised in Britain at the time. However, they were still subject to confiscation by British and US customs officers. Kahane published Henry Miller 's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer , which had explicit sexual passages and could not therefore be published in

357-425: The western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the River Kelvin to the east and north. Hillhead was an independent police burgh from 1869, but as Glasgow grew during the nineteenth century it was first swallowed up physically by the growing city, and then administratively in 1891. The University of Glasgow is located in the area, having moved from its original site on

378-691: Was a Canadian science writer and novelist. Allen recognized his nephew's interest in books and publishing and it was thanks to Allen's recommendation that in 1888 Richards obtained his first job as a junior clerk at the wholesale booksellers, Hamilton, Adams and Company. Allen also helped obtain a position with W. T. Stead , the publishers of Review of Reviews where for six years Richards would be employed as an editor and reviewer. In 1897, Richards launched his first eponymous publishing house based at 9 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden, London. He published several books by Grant Allen, including titles in

399-460: Was also remembered for "his very real instinct for friendship, his unruffled amiability, his handsome attire, and [his] monocle". For full list click here Hillhead Hillhead ( Scots : Hullheid , Scottish Gaelic : Ceann a' Chnuic ) is an area of Glasgow , Scotland. Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin , Hillhead is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End , with Byres Road forming

420-400: Was given in the probate documents as "46 Buckingham-court, London S.W.1". In its obituary for Grant Richards, The Times praised him as "an adventurous publisher" who had "published some of the best books of his time ... in spite of two rather devastating bankruptcies". It observed that "he had a very real feeling for literature which the reader of his own novels would scarcely suspect". He

441-407: Was published in 1935. Some of Richards' novels were published by Richards's own firm and others were published by major publishers such as Jonathan Cape, William Heinemann and Cassell. Richards also published two autobiographies - Memories of a Misspent Youth (1932) and its sequel, Author Hunting by An Old Literary Sportsman (1934) - in which "much valuable information about the literary world of

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