Focal Press (Eisler)

George Bernhard Eisler founded the Focal Press in London in 1937. He had already immigrated to England in 1934 (via Switzerland) and sold his father’s publishing house where he had worked in 1935 at less than fair value. In 1940 he and his family moved to New York, where he established a branch of his publishing house. He also founded another publishing house, Global Press, which published cartographic material.

Resources

• Fischer, Ernst: Verleger, Buchhaendler und Antiquare aus Deutschland und Oesterreich in der Emigration nach 1933: ein biographisches Handbuch / von Ernst Fischer. - Stuttgart : Verband Deutscher Antiquare, 2011