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Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition
Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition
Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition
Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition
Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition

Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition

Fredric Warburg - An Occupation for Gentlemen, Hutchinson, 1959, First Edition

Memoir and Autobiography.  The title stems from a 1950s cocktail party conversation where a businessman asked Warburg if publishing was "a business or an occupation for gentlemen." Warburg uses the memoir to explore this duality through his career.  It details his early life, his purchase of the failing Martin Secker firm in 1936, and the development of Secker & Warburg into a leading intellectual publisher

Hardcover in fair condition.  No dust jacket.  Faded dust jacket, rubbed to top edge of front board.  pencil notation to endpaper.  Foxing to page edges.  Cream leaves.  Text firm and clean.

Weight   490g.   Pages   288.