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THE REVIEW |

Deep Cove Publishing House Oldest In British Columbia

By PAT MURPHY

There’s a kind of tweedy,
low-key, worn-furniture
type of informality about

the Deep Cove offices of:

~-Grays Publishing which is
‘probably, reflection of the

philosophy of the
proprietor ‘who, in turn,
inherited it from: the man
who ‘started the business,
Gray.Campbell.

Bearded, _pipe- -smoking
Englishmen Gordon

. Cooper who now owns _

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Gray’s

establishment, is proud of
the fact that Gray’s is the
oldest publishing company
in British Columbia. It has
a duty to do more. than
make money, he believes.

He says, convincingly,
his company. has-.a
cultural obligation to the
Coast and to Western
Canada and to writers in
British Columbia who, for
so many years, had no place
to market ‘their artistic
wares.

The company -will gross
about ‘$300,000 when the
year ends in June and that is
important — it’s important
to stay alive in a highly
competitive. business — but
cultural con-

tribution is also- important’
and the two must go hand-
in hand.

“1 don’ t expect to make a
lot of money out of this

company. We must make a.

living for all of us and we
must. have money to. put
into new books but money
is not the. only value at
Grays. The word ‘integrity’
is often misused —. but
that’s what I mean,’’
Cooper says.

’ Grays has, in the 17 years
of its life, always
specialized in books of
Western Canada, _ natural
history and_. biographies,
and will continue.to pursue
this interest but it recently
made its first foray into

fiction with the publication
of The Boathouse
Question, by Jan Gould, of
Victoria.

There will .be other
Western-oriented fiction
titles coming ut of Grays in
the future, Cooper said.

The selection of a book
for publication is. still a
“‘gut. feeling’’’. matter,
Cooper says. There is, of
course, risk: entailed and,
for that reason. the
publisher and editor must
be certain that they have
their fingers.on the public
pulse.

Publishing is a high-risk
business but, in the case of

Gray’s, the risks have been:

minimized over the years by

Partial Eclipse February 26

Tt he last solar eclipse for
38 «years. will ‘partially
darken the skies over the
Saanich ‘Peninsula between

7:16 a.m. and 9:36 Monday
February 26.

Maximum phase : of the
eclipse will be at 8:19 a.m.
when over.98 per cent of the
sun will be covered by the
moon, leaving only.a thin
but powerfully bright

f crescent along one edge of.

thesun.. .
Although the track of the -

shadow will be over central
Hudson’s. Bay’ andthe
eclipse © will end —in
Greenland where the paths
of the.sun and moon will

separate.

The next eclipses. are
expected August 21, 2017
and April 8, 2024.

Astronomers. at the
Dominion
observatory warn that
looking directly at any part
of the sun, even during .a
partial eclipse, can cause

Astrophysical .

Even blackened
photographic’ film or
smoked glass won't shield
enough of the infra-red
radiation to allow safe
viewing, . an observatory
spokesman said this week:
Direct viewing should be

*done with nothing weaker

than a number 14 welder’s
glass, he. said, although he
noted the best method is to
project the image of the sun
onto a screen ‘or wall by

wide public acceptance: of

the 45 books the company.

has produced.
Among. ‘the most

suc-
cessful. of these. was
“Wildflowers of British
Columbia” by Professor

Lewis J. Clark. Three years
in preparation, this
lavishly-illustrated _ volume
has. sold ‘and is selling
spectacularly well.-both in
Canada and. the United
States. It was.the peak sale
for Grays.

Grays doesn’t profess to
be anything but a regional
publisher although it has
had several nation-wide
good sellers.
manuscript will not be
accepted unless Cooper and
his editor are. convinced
that it will sell more than
5,000 over three years. That
makes it a successful book.

The company. will be
bringing out five titles in the
spring of this year and four
in the. autumn. It has six
commission representatives
across Canada and link-ups
with several United States
and British pubtishints
houses.

The company was started
in 1962 by. Gray Campbell a

successful Alberta rancher.

who had contributed stories
over the years to weekly

Normally a

was a regional need which
was not. being. filled —
frustrated Western Writers
who had no outlet for
publication.

Campbell started with a
few thousand dollars’ and
one of — his first books
“Blind Date’? was by John
Windsor, . the. sightless

writer. who has since had #

considerable success.

_Gordon Cooper came to
Grays in
successful career as a book
salesman. He had worked
with -Hancock House and
Blaney’s, selling Penguin
and other British paperback
lines. At. various times he
has represented many of
British Columbia’s © small

presses, including Rain-
coast Chronicles.
Always, he says, as he

travelled the coast, he was
impressed by ‘the respect
Gray’s publishing seemed
to command. He still is.
~. Since he took over the
top: management of Grays,
the gross has
considerably .and, in the
opinion of the new boss, the
future looks good.

“The next.
should be very exciting,’” he
says. ‘‘We are growing and

will, 1 expect, continue to

grow. And we are giving

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