Panther Books
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Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, specialising in paperback fiction.
Company history
It was established in May 1952 by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd. and titles carried the line "A Panther Book" or "Panther Science Fiction" on the cover.
Foundation Trilogy.[3] In 1954, Gordon Landsborough
was employed as editor and started improving the quality of the imprint. Instead of publishing original genre novels in paperback and hardback, Panther Books became a reprint publisher, doing paperback reprints of best-selling hardcover novels from other publishers. The quality of the cover art was improved and the list expanded to include non-fiction titles and fiction titles by internationally known, best-selling writers.
By April 1966, books published under the Panther name indicate that the business was based at 108
Granada Group Ltd had acquired a number of publishers who became subsidiary companies of Granada Publishing Ltd. These included, among others, Panther Books Ltd, and thus Panther Science Fiction became a Granada imprint
.
In 1983, Granada sold the publishing side of its business to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co, based in Glasgow.[4]
In 1989, William Collins Sons & Co merged with the American publishers
Harper & Row, located in New York, to form HarperCollins, the British side of the company being managed through HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. HarperCollins Publishers continued to trade. As of January 2020[update]
, the head office is at Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, employing about 500 people.
Sources
- Records of Granada Publishing Ltd, Glasgow UniversityArchives Service
- Records of William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, Glasgow UniversityArchives Service
- Crash by J.G. Ballard (Triad / Panther Books, 1985) at fontinuse.com
- Pulp Friday: The Man With the Brown Paper Face, pulpcurry.com - discussion of Panther's book cover design
- Out of Space and Time: Books by Clark Ashton Smith, at strangelyperfect.tv - designer of cover art for Panther Books
References
- ^ John Freeman, How Panther Books, an SF publishing success story, survived the era of "mushroom publishers", downthetubes.net. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Leo Boudreau - Panther Books Paperback Original. London: Hamilton & Co., (1952). Cover Art by John Pollack, flickr.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Publisher: Panther". isfdb.org. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Panther Books (Hamilton & Co.; Granada Group; Panther Books Ltd.; William Collins) - Book Series List". www.publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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