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SPINK BOOKS SOLDLongtime numismatic book publisher Spink Books has been sold to a new owner. This announcement was dropped earlier this week. -Editor 
Spink & Son Ltd. is delighted to announce the sale of the assets and goodwill of Spink Books, the leading publisher of numismatics books, to The Pen & Sword Group, one of the leading publishers of military, naval and aviation history. Spink Books is the leading imprint for numismatic book publishing and has been supplying and publishing numismatic reference works for collectors for over 100 years. Many of its titles have become the definitive reference works in their fields and are highly sought after by enthusiasts, collectors, dealers and auctioneers worldwide. Spink Books has also published many specially commissioned works on behalf of governments, major institutions and private collectors as well as being the distributors for a range of publications, on behalf of many learned societies and authors, including the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society. The Pen & Sword Group is one of the world's leading publishers of military, naval and aviation history as well as having specialist imprints in the fields of local history, ancient history, family history, crime, and general interest publishing. Pen & Sword is also the majority shareholder in Script Publisher Services, one of the leading third-party publisher book sales, marketing and distribution companies, and who have been the trade distributors for Spink Books for a number of years. Olivier Stocker, Group Chairman and Chief Executive of Spink Group said, "As the auction business is our true DNA and our sole focus is on offering the most professional service to our global buyers and sellers in all categories of Collectables from our main salesrooms in London, Hong Kong, New York, we believed that it was the right time for the book division to reside with an equally focused publishing group and we are pleased to have found an ideal partner and custodian in Pen & Sword, where I believe the list is in safe hands and with whom we hope to continue to collaborate going forward. They will look after our portfolio of existing books and continue to sell them, whilst our authors and collectors wishing to publish new books will have a privileged access to Pen & Sword Books' team". Charles Hewitt, Managing Director of Pen & Sword, added, "We are delighted to welcome Spink Books and its authors which will form part of a new imprint, Script Collectables, and we are looking forward to continuing to build what is an excellent list and a well-respected imprint. The business is a great fit with our portfolio of imprints and we look forward to working together to serve these publishing markets". Spink Books customers can still purchase all Spink titles seamlessly via the current Spink Books website, the same way as before, with Pen & Sword now managing orders and fulfilment. Good luck to the new owners, and hopefully they'll find a way to continue the longstanding numismatic publishing tradition under the new imprint. -Editor
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