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Herrmann, Frank

Frank Herrmann has been a publisher and a senior director of Sotheby’s. In 1983 he founded Bloomsbury Book Auctions, which he ran for 22 years. He is the author of a series of children’s books and an autobiography, Low Profile: A Life in the World of Books.

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20100901115346 Frank Herrmann on H. A. Manhood

Lives on the Edge

Frank Herrmann on the short stories and novels of H. A. Manhood

One of the great advantages of running an auction house for books is that you see a vast range of publications. And if you’ve been a publisher for many years before you became an auctioneer, you frequently wonder what on earth possessed publishers of earlier generations to select some of the incredible rubbish that saw the light of day. But you do find the odd unknown pearl among the dross. I happened to be interested in the short story, and after the First World War collections of these were published in large numbers. Among them a name, a strange name, figured fairly frequently – that of H. A. Manhood. His own story is interesting.

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