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Tintin and the Picaros: Published by Topeka Bindery?

harikool_1980
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#1 · Posted: 16 Jun 2014 14:55
Hi,
I'm been planning to buy Tintin and the Picaros, and found an article which says it was published by Topeka Bindery.
I have been trying to search on the net about the publisher but can't find an actual Tintin book published by them.
Can anyone please tell me if they have a book published by them, with details?
jock123
Moderator
#2 · Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:52
The article would appear to be wrong; "Topeka Bindery" is also listed as an author of many books if you search for that term - books which they clearly didn't write!

What they are is exactly as their name suggests: they bind books, and specialize in library binding - hard wearing covers for use in school- and public-libraries. Some publishers offer alternative covers, although this may have been more common in the past (old Faber paperbacks I have from the sixties show the prices of other titles in a variety of bindings - paper, cloth, etc.), and I suppose for those that don't, or couldn't provide them themselves, or usually just make paper-backs, companies like Topeka Bindery exist to do the work for them.

So whoever filled in the details on that page - and likewise for the ones where Topeka is listed as an author - seems to have had a library book of Picaros, and mistaken the provider of the library cover as the publisher.

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