Godine at Forty: A Retrospective of Four Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher

by David R. Godine

In this large-format, full-color overview, the publisher has attempted to select and describe roughly two hundred titles that did, in fact, make a difference. It includes the first American editions of such acclaimed authors as John Banville, Richard Rodriguez, Andre Dubus, and Georges Perec. It features the various lists of the house's particular children's books, with authors and illustrators as diverse as Mary Azarian, Barbara McClintock, Andrea Wisnewski, Edward Ardizzone, and Daniel C. Beard. It selects the best books from the various the Nonpareil list that reprinted the work of Donald Hall, Will Cuppy, Ludwig Bemelmans, William Maxwell, and Paula Fox, among countless others; the Verba Mundi series, which introduced American readers to classics of foreign literature by Dino Buzzati, Robert Musil, Patrick Modiano, Jos Donoso, and the 2008 Nobel Laureate, J.M.G.Le Clzio.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2012