Scrapbook: Origins of the book from Rosemary Hall

Since its publication in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast has been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Japanese and Swedish. It was a bestseller in the US, Italy and France. In the US, the Bantam paperback edition went through 11 printings and sold over a million copies in the 1950s and '60s. The 18th edition of the Italian translation, Cioccolata a Colazione, lists the total number of copies sold in Italy as of 1966 at 408,000. Cioccolata remained continuously in print in Italy through the early 2000s.

In July of 2013, Chocolates for Breakfast was reissued in the U.S. by Harper Perennial. Since then, editions have been published or announced in the following countries / by the following publishers:

– Slovenia / Grilica, June 2013
– France / Robert Laffont, May 2014
– UK / Harper 360, June 2014
– Italy / Mondadori, Sept. 2014
– Korea / Cheonmirae, Jan. 2015
– Germany / Piper, Sept. 2015
– Turkey, Netherlands & Japan, upcoming

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