The Bodley Head
English publishing house, founded in 1887 and existing as an independent entity until the 1970s. It was incorporated in 1937 as <a href="/c/books/credit/19462/the-bodley-head-ltd/">The Bodley Head Ltd.</a> Earlier incarnations of the company include <a href="/c/books/credit/722036/john-lane-the-bodley-head/">John Lane The Bodley Head</a> & <a href="/c/books/credit/195788/john-lane-the-bodley-head-limited/">John Lane The Bodley Head Limited</a>. It is unclear when the abbreviated version of the name was first used (1930s?) Now operates as an imprint with the Penguin Random House group.
| Founded | 1887, United Kingdom |
| Links | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bodley_Head |
Associate Publisher 4
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Ulysses | Paperback |
![]() | Ulysses | Paperback |
![]() | Ulysses: The Corrected Text | Paperback |
![]() | Blood | Paperback |
Copyright Holder 1
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Ulisse | Hardback |
Copyright Holder (Illustrations) 1
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | The Eagles have Flown | Hardback |
Copyright Holder (Translation) 2
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | The Love-Girl and the Innocent | Paperback |
![]() | If This is a Man / The Truce | Paperback |
First Published by 40
Imprint 14
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | The Return | Paperback |
![]() | Erewhon, or Over the Range | Paperback |
![]() | Ariel, a Shelley Romance | Paperback |
![]() | The Yellow Book: A Selection | Hardback |
![]() | Travels with My Aunt | Hardback |
![]() | Calligraphy in the Graphic Arts | Soft cover |
![]() | The Essential Chomsky | Paperback |
![]() | Looking at the Stars | Hardback |
![]() | Goebbels | Hardback |
![]() | The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 | Printing/Uncorrected Proof |
![]() | Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment | Hardback |
![]() | Behave (The Biology Of Humans At Our Best And Worst) | Hardback |
| Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation, And How To Take It Back | Paperback | |
![]() | The Gene: An Intimate History | Printing/Uncorrected Proof |
Published in/by Arrangement with 4
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Vikings Dawn | Paperback |
![]() | Viking's Sunset | Paperback |
![]() | Tales of Ancient Egypt | Mass-Market Paperback |
![]() | The Great Gatsby / The Last Tycoon | Hardback |
Publisher 22
| Title | Format | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | My Man Jeeves | Paperback |
![]() | The Road to Miklagard | Hardback |
![]() | Ten Years After | Hardback |
![]() | Ulysses | Hardback |
![]() | Vikings Sunset | Hardback |
![]() | Jason | Hardback |
![]() | Five Girls | Hardback |
![]() | The Comedians | Hardback |
![]() | Sophy of Kravonia | Hardback |
![]() | Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party | Hardback |
![]() | Ways of Escape | Hardback |
![]() | J'accuse | Pamphlet |
![]() | Getting to Know the General | Hardback |
![]() | The Last Stand. Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn | Hardback |
![]() | Unnatural: The Heretical Idea Of Making People | Hardback |
![]() | How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime? | Hardback |
![]() | I Contain Multitudes | Printing/Uncorrected Proof |
![]() | The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World | Hardback |
![]() | The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World | Hardback |
| Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation, And How To Take It Back | Paperback | |
![]() | Monsignor Quixote | Hardback |
![]() | The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer | Hardback |













































































