W. Gordon Graham (1920–2015)
Auteur de The Literature of the Book: A Select Bibliography, With Critical Essays, of Books By, About and For The Book Professions
A propos de l'auteur
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(eng) Do not combine with Gordon Graham; there are multiple authors by this name.
Œuvres de W. Gordon Graham
The Literature of the Book: A Select Bibliography, With Critical Essays, of Books By, About and For The Book… (2005) 10 exemplaires
Immigrant publishers : the impact of expatriate publishers in Britain and America in the 20th century (2009) 5 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Graham, Walter Gordon
- Date de naissance
- 1920-07-17
- Date de décès
- 2015-04-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Scotland
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Scotland
- Lieu de naissance
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Études
- Glasgow University (L.L.B.)
Hutcheson's Boys' Grammar School - Professions
- Publisher
- Organisations
- International Publishers Association
- Courte biographie
- Born in Scotland, W. Gordon Graham started his career as a freelance publisher's representative in India before becoming International Sales Manager of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York. He subsequently ran McGraw-Hill's book business in Europe and the Middle East for twelve years. In 1974 he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Butterworths, retiring from it in 1990. He became the found-editor of LOGOS, the professional journal of the book world.
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Do not combine with Gordon Graham; there are multiple authors by this name.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 39
- Popularité
- #376,657
- Évaluation
- 4.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Favoris
- 1
What results is a literary collection of thoughtful, highly crafted essays informed by the author's great experience and shrewd perceptions. The essays are interspersed with 'interludes': animadversions upon dictionaries, desks, politicians and slides; autobiography; moving verse on closed borders; high comedy the account of Caxton's difficulties in the face of the NSA (National Scribes Association) on attempting to introduce PRINT (People's Right to Information through New Technology) should become a classic. There is irony: In discussion with a Singapore book pirate, Gordon 'was distressed to learn that one of his Butterworth titles is moving rather slowly'. There is compassion for the book hungry.
There is even scope for fourth thoughts: surely some of these descriptions deserve further publication in a Grahamian glossary:
Committees: 'At any given moment, somewhere in the world, there is a publisher gnashing his teeth. ... Their ailments are treated by group therapy ... sufferers are appointed to the chairs of committees composed of sympathizers and well wishers who allow them to talk themselves well again.'
Databases: 'Text in a database which is never called up ... makes it possible today to be "published" without ever being read ... a pronouncement into a vacuum. ... Only the author will ever know that he thought it. It will be a soliloquy without an audience.'
Librarians: 'He [Maurice Line] is genuinely puzzled about publishers' antagonism to [the British Library Lending Division]. "What do publishers want?" he asked me (rather like Freud on women).'
'The good living publisher' is depicted here as dividing books into four purposes: information, education, enlightenment and entertainment. This book fulfils all four; here, reading for information blends with reading for pleasure, both quests nicely rewarded.… (plus d'informations)