Albatross published the first modern mass market paperback, in Hamburg, in 1932. Their publishing model and their design were a direct influence on Penguin Books (as well as The Olympia Press.) The rise of Nazism and the beginning of the war eventually brought an end to Albatross.
E.M. Forster, A Passage To India
Albatross
Paperback with dust jacket
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