Robert Hale (publishers)

[3] Robert Hale was born in Norwich in 1887, the son of a pub landlord, and worked in publishing from leaving school.

[15] The Vulgar Streak (1941) contained an explanation by Lewis of fascism, as he explained in a letter to Hale;[16][17] it was a commission from 1937, working title Men at Bay.

[19] Berthold Brecht's Threepenny Novel appeared in English translation (by Desmond Vesey) in 1937, published by Robert Hale as A Penny for the Poor.

[20][21] The Spanish Arena (1938) by William Foss and Cecil Gerahty had a preface by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, then representative in London of Francisco Franco.

Robert Hale published in hardback in the UK the first four Harold Robbins titles, 79 Park Avenue, Never Love a Stranger, A Stone for Danny Fisher and Never Leave Me.

[26] The Tivington Nott, a semi-autobiographical novel by Alex Miller, was published by Robert Hale, after the appearance of its sequel Watching the Climbers on the Mountain.

[27] Robert Hale also published the first book by the social scientist Dr Leo Ruickbie in 2004, a non-fiction socio-historical work called Witchcraft Out of the Shadows.

[29] They also published Cecil Keeling's Pictures of Persia, which contained memoirs from his wartime service there alongside 30 colour plates.

[32] Over the period 1968 to 1982, the company produced an extended series of hardback science fiction titles, for the public library market.

The Crowood Press ceased publication of Black Horse Western books in November 2020 after experimenting with soft cover and ebook editions and determining the imprint was no longer viable.