Deutsch
André Deutsch Ltd is a London publisher founded by André Deutsch and Diana Athill in 1952, publisher of Naipaul, Updike, Roth and Atwood, now an imprint within the Welbeck group via Carlton.
- Editions tracked
- 118
- First editions
- 29
- Books
- 117
- Years
- 1952 to 1995
About Deutsch
André Deutsch Ltd is a London publishing house founded by the Hungarian-born publisher André Deutsch (1917 to 2000), which began trading in 1952 and was known for publishing major British, American and Commonwealth writers; the name is now an imprint of Welbeck.
Deutsch, born in Budapest, first set up the firm Allan Wingate towards the end of the Second World War, but was pushed out by one of its directors after a few years. He then launched André Deutsch Ltd, with the editor Diana Athill as a founding director in 1952 (some accounts date the founding to 1951). The house published Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka and Ogden Nash.
In 1984 Deutsch agreed to sell the business to Tom Rosenthal, formerly of Secker & Warburg, with the two running it jointly until Deutsch reached 70, when Rosenthal was to take full control. Carlton Publishing Group bought André Deutsch from Video Collection International in 2000, and Carlton was itself acquired by Welbeck Publishing Group in April 2019.
We have not yet written the guide to Deutsch's first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Deutsch marked its firsts? Tell us.
Authors
Published by Deutsch
Spot the first: Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: £1.95 (first issue jacket)
Frequently asked questions
How many Deutsch books does MyVolumes track?
We track 118 editions published by Deutsch, 29 of them first editions, across 117 books.
Where these facts come from
- André Deutsch, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- André Deutsch Collection, Oxford Brookes University (brookes.ac.uk)
- Obituary: Tom Rosenthal, Publishers Weekly, 2014 (publishersweekly.com)
- André Deutsch snapped up by Carlton, The Bookseller, 2000 (thebookseller.com)
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