View source for Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers

{{Short description|1992 novel by J.L. Carr}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''''Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers''''' is the eighth and last novel by [[J.L. Carr]], published in 1992, just after his 80th birthday.  The narrator of the story is Hetty Beauchamp, the heroine of ''[[What Hetty Did]]'', who describes how George Harpole and Emma Foxberrow (both characters in ''[[The Harpole Report]]'') returned from working at a teacher-training college in Sinji, the setting of ''[[A Season in Sinji]]'', to establish a small provincial publishing firm.

{{infobox book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = Harpole & Foxberrow2 96dpi.jpg
| caption       = Cover of first edition - 1992
| author        = [[J.L. Carr]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = [[Ian Stephens (artist)|Ian Stephens]]
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Comic Fiction]]
| publisher     = [[The Quince Tree Press]]
| release_date  = 1992
| english_release_date =
| media_type    = Print ([[Paperback]])
| pages         = 157
| isbn          = 978-0-900847-93-6
| oclc= 27695837
| preceded_by   = [[What Hetty Did]]
| followed_by   =
}}

The book was issued by [[The Quince Tree Press]], established by Carr in 1967 to publish his maps and small books.  Carr printed 4,000 copies of the novel at a cost of £5,500 <ref name=Rogers>Rogers, B. (2003). ''The Last Englishman.  The Life of J.L. Carr.'' London: Aurum Press</ref> and sold them direct to bookshops at a 40% discount on the cover price of £4.95 or to whoever wrote to him at his house in Kettering asking for a copy.  The novel is still available from the Quince Tree Press.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://www.quincetreepress.co.uk Quince Tree Press]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harpole and Foxberrow General Publishers}}
[[Category:1992 British novels]]
[[Category:English novels]]
[[Category:Novels by J. L. Carr]]