13 Facts About Lionel Leventhal

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Lionel Leventhal is a British publisher of books on military history and related topics, whose eponymous company was established in 1967.

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Lionel Leventhal Limited came into being in 1967 as the holding company for the various publishing and other book related companies run by its eponymous owner.

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In 1971, Clive Bingley and Leventhal organised The Specialist Publishers' Exhibition for Librarians, with 22 exhibitors displaying titles on tabletops.

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Lionel Leventhal was video-interviewed at The London Book Fair 2017 as part of a surprise celebration of his 80th birthday.

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Lionel Leventhal Limited retains ownership of stocks and copyright licences of books published under the Greenhill Books and Chatham Publishing imprint.

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The book is edited by Michael Lionel Leventhal and includes contributions from Antony Beevor, Asa Briggs, Tim Newark, Richard Holmes, Gary Sheffield, Ian Kershaw, Stephen Turnbull and illustrations by Chris Riddell.

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In 1985 Lionel Leventhal purchased, with partner Clive Bingley, the STM publishing house of Charles Griffin, which specialised in publishing books on statistics.

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Lionel Leventhal's partner retired in 1992 and Lund Humphries Publishers was sold in 1999 to Ashgate.

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In 2003 Lionel Leventhal Limited acquired the leading specialist publishing house for naval and maritime books, Chatham Publishing, which had been established in 1996 and had a fine reputation for high-quality publications.

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Lionel Leventhal Limited retains ownership of stocks and copyright licences of books published under the Chatham imprint.

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In 2018 Michael Lionel Leventhal established a new imprint publishing Jewish children's books.

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12.

Michael Lionel Leventhal was interviewed for the WorldKidLit blog in September 2020 about the birth of the Green Bean Books imprint.

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Lionel Leventhal, On Publishing: A Professional Memoir, London: Greenhill Books, 2002.

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