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Schubert E. London: The Bodley Head, 1983 ( Swedish original, Ett Testamente, published in 1950 ).
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924.
* Pyne, Zoe Kendrick, Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina: His Life and Times, Bodley Head, London, 1922.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.
The Bodley Head, Paperback, 1989.
' ( Bodley Head, 2010 )
London: John Lane ( The Bodley Head ).
London: The Bodley Head.
* Primal Vision: Selected Poetry and Prose of Gottfried Benn edited by E. B. Ashton ( NY: Bodley Head, 1961 ; Boyars, 1971 ; Marion Boyars, 1984, ISBN 0-7145-2500-6
London: Bodley Head
* Henry Treece's children's novel Man with a Sword was published by the Bodley Head, London, in 1962: Hereward is the hero of the story, in the first episode he is the champion of the Empress Gunhilda of Germany and at the end his life extends past the death of William I.
The world the railways made, London: The Bodley Head, 1990 ISBN 0-370-31299-6
* A revised edition, a reprint of the original " with additions, annotations, and comments by Hubert Foss " was published by Bodley Head in 1952 ( in USA by Greenwood Press, 1974: ISBN 978-0-8371-7292-7 )
* Six Men ( 1977 ) The Bodley Head ISBN 0-370-30056-4 ;( 1995 ) ISBN 1-55970-317-2
* Talk about America: Letters from America 1951 – 1968 ( 1968 ) The Bodley Head ; ( 1981 ) Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-005764-1
* The Bodley Head
* The Bodley Head
London: Bodley Head.
The Secrets of a Kuttite: An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity & Stamboul Intrigue Bodley Head, 1921
Proud of his son's achievement, Spare's father would later inquire as to whether the publisher John Lane of Bodley Head would be interested in re-printing A Book of Satyrs, leading to the release of an expanded second edition in 1909.
It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head ( John Lane's UK company ) on 21 January 1921.
The Bodley Head quoted excerpts from this review in future books by Christie but understandably did not use those passages, which gave away the identity of the culprits.
* 1921, John Lane ( The Bodley Head ), January 21, 1921, Hardcover, 296 pp
* 1926, John Lane ( The Bodley Head ), June 1926, Hardcover ( Cheap edition-two shillings ) 319 pp
* 1931, John Lane ( The Bodley Head, February 1931 ( As part of the Agatha Christie Omnibus along with The Murder on the Links and Poirot Investigates ), Hardcover ( Priced at seven shillings and sixpence, a cheaper edition at five shillings was published in October 1932 )

Bodley and imprint
The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1936, but at first only as an imprint of Bodley Head ( of Vigo Street ) with the books originally distributed from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone.
A defensive merger with Chatto and Windus was carried out in 1969 ; later The Bodley Head and Virago Press were added to the group, before Cape became an imprint of Random House in 1987.

Bodley and was
Macmillan was in close friendship in old age with Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley, née Bodley ( 1896 – 1973 ), the widow of John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley.
It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.
" Duke Humfrey ’ s Library was refitted, and Bodley donated a number of his own books to furnish it.
Bodley ’ s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.
By the time of Bodley ’ s death in 1612, further expansion to the library was being planned.
The first librarian, Thomas James, was selected by Bodley in 1599, and the university confirmed James in his post in 1602.
Bodley wanted his librarian to be " some one that is noted and knowen for a diligent Student, and in all his conuersation to be trustie, actiue, and discreete, a graduat also and a Linguist, not encombred with mariage, nor with a benefice of Cure ", although James was able to persuade Bodley to let him get married and to become Rector of St Aldate's Church, Oxford.
G. F. Bodley was a leading exponent of the Gothic revival style, and a former pupil and relative by marriage of Scott's grandfather.
A historian of Liverpool Cathedral observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter into a working relationship with a young and untried student.
Bodley had been a close friend of Scott's father, but his collaboration with the young Scott was fractious, especially after Bodley accepted commissions to design two cathedrals in the U. S., necessitating frequent absences from Liverpool.
Scott was on the point of resigning when Bodley died suddenly in 1907, leaving him in charge.
While Scott was feuding with Bodley in Liverpool, he managed to design and see built his first complete church.
A further window to commemorate the curate Rev Alban Bodley Mace ( 1915 ), who was killed in action at Salonika during 1916, serving with the Allied Expeditionary Force.
Norwich City library was established in 1608 ( six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the " whole republic of the learned " and 145 years before the foundation of the British Museum ), and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.
The best known story of the Mixtec Codices is that of Lord Eight Deer, named after the day in which he was born, whose personal name is Jaguar Claw, and whose epic history is related in several codices, including the Codex Bodley and Codex Zouche-Nuttall.

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