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The Study of History sold well.

In the U. S. alone, more than seven thousand sets of the ten-volume edition had been sold by 1955.

Most people relied on the very clear one-volume abridgement of the first six volumes by Somervell, which appeared in 1947 ; it sold over 300, 000 copies in the U. S. The high brow press provided innumerable discussions of Toynbee's work in the press, not to mention countless lectures and seminars.

Toynbee himself often participated.

He appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1947.