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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Book publishing/Bookselling |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Defunct | 1950s |
| Successor | Literary Guild |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, USA |
Area served | United States |
Key people | Lawrence W. Lamm |
| Products | Contemporary and world classic books |
| Services | Mail order book sales club |
| Owner | Doubleday, 1936 |
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club. It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club.[1] Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc.[1] The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York[2] in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m2) office building that was constructed in 1906.[3] It printed and distributed a variety of volumes in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. A victim of the Great Depression,[1] the Book League of America was purchased by Doubleday in 1936.
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