Duncan Fallowell

The books the Nazis didn’t burn

The German-registered Albatross Press was a significant 20th-century publisher; so why have we barely heard of it?

issue 13 May 2017

For one who has, since boyhood, regarded the secondhand bookshop as a paradise of total immersion, it is quite shocking to discover Albatross, an unknown imprint from the English literary past. Before Albatross there was Tauchnitz, the Leipzig firm which for 100 years cornered the market in English language books outside the territories of the British Empire and the USA.

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