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Rayner Unwin’s memoir, George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer , is a rare look inside a mid-sized 20th-century publishing house. While many readers come for the Tolkien anecdotes—like Rayner's personal friendship with the professor or his deciding vote to publish the "risky" Lord of the Rings —the book offers much more.