The Derrydale Press was an American book

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founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in

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. It was the creation of

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graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891–1969). He told ''

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'' magazine that he got the Derrydale name, "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland." An important publisher of outdoor books for

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n audiences during the first half of the 20th century, according to a 1938 ''Time'' magazine article, it was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books. The company went out of business in 1942. Its archives are held by Princeton University. The name was resurrected in the 1990s and the Derrydale Press is currently operated as an imprint of the

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which uses it to put out books on the outdoors as well as

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sports,

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, and sporting

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References

External links

The Derrydale Press at The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group website

(subscription required) * Henry A. Siegel, Harry C. Marschalk, Jr., and Isaac Oelgart, The Derrydale Press: A Bibliography. Goshen, CT: The Angler's & Shooters Press, 1981. xii, 267 pages. Limited to 1250 copies. Book publishing companies of the United States Book publishing companies based in New York City Publishing companies established in 1927 {{US-publish-company-stub