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Macmillan recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person...

As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan 's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani on its first appearance...

Macmillan made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...

Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...

MS issued through her usual publisher, Macmillan , The Very Fine Clock, her first book for children.

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

MS 's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan to Bodley Head .

After leaving the Poetry Society, MS moved to a lodging-house at 1 Vicarage Gate, off Church Street, Kensington, where she lived from 1949 to 1950. In the summer of 1950 she moved again...

She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS considered...

FAS is said to have issued her short-story volume entitled In the Permanent Way, and Other Stories, though the only English edition to survive in any numbers appeared in 1898.

Lâl, composed in Aberdeenshire, was rejected by several minor periodicals (to which Richard Gillies Hardy had suggested FAS should send it) but accepted at first sight by Mowbray Morris of Macmillan's Magazine (who...

This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

Oddly, this work, set partly in London and partly in the Western Highlands of Scotland of her youth, received praise from Macmillan 's reader before its publication for its knowledge of London (where FAS had...

JT 's fiction received mixed reviews during her life. A Mrs Marie Barrett-Lennard of Sevenoaks went to some trouble to locate copies of her books in the late 1920s, when one might have supposed her...

Macmillan of New York issued two omnibus volumes of JT 's detective fiction as part of their Murder Revisited Series. The first, Three by Tey (1947), includes Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair...