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Gnome Press was a US small press running from 1948 to 1962. Edited by Martin Greenberg (an “outright crook” according to Asimov), Gnome published early hardcovers of many pulp era authors, like Howard, Heinlein, Asimov (who never saw a dime for the Gnome edition of the Foundation Trilogy), Van Vogt, and so on. Several notable fen and pros worked for Gnome: Andre Norton, L. Sprague deCamp (Gnome was where he got his start on rewriting the Conan opus), and David Kyle, who was best known, perhaps, for doing the Conan maps. Earl Kemp’s eI47 has a brief history of Gnome, along with a check list of the 86 titles and ephemera, as well as scans. It’s the last chapter in Earl’s Anthem series of articles on early SF small presses.

As an aside, Martin Greenberg is not to be confused with Martin Henry Greenberg, who had a long and fruitful professional relationship with Asimov. The latter wrote a humorous bit about his confusing the two.

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