and Richard Nile's Australian Civilization (1994). A similar Fabinyi publishing initiative was Sol Encel's Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction (first edition 1965) which was a bestseller and went through eleven editions. Fabinyi also published fiction by Hugh Atkinson, Vance Palmer and Neilma Sidney, poetry by Vincent Buckley, Geoffrey Dutton and Lionel Lindsay, and anthologies including Australia Writes, Australian Signpost, and Span ("a collection of Asian and Australian writing".) In 1968 he was promoted to Managing Director of the firm which by then was known as the Cheshire Group. Pergamon Press and retirement In 1969, following the British-based Hamlyn/International Publishing Company's acquisition of Cheshire, Fabinyi left the firm and became Director and then Managing Director at Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press (Australia) in Sydney. Part of his new job included becoming Director of Maxwell's British Book Centre in New York, which Fabinyi viewed as "offering splendid opportunities for Australian books". Although he had previously noted that the British publishing "invasion" of Australian publishers had caused a great deal of "controversy", he noted that book publishing "needs long term-investment and ... thinking" and the "brutal fact" was that Australian investors would not invest in long-term projects. He saw his new appointment with Pergamon as a way to "build up Australian book publishing over a period" with "substantial financial backing". In the years 1970–78 Fabinyi was a director of the La Trobe University Bookshop. From 1975 he was a research fellow at the University of New South Wales and in 1976 he joined the editorial board of the UNSW Press. In 1977 he retired from Pergamon and became an advisor to Longman Cheshire which he continued until his death in the following year. Publishing, libraries, internationalism In his own published writings in Meanjin from 1947, including annual reports on the state of Australian publishing, and in his regular columns in the early numbers of Australian Book Review under the pen name of "Peter Pica" on the "state of book production and design", Fabinyi propounded his belief in Australian culture and thought. He served as the Chairman of the Australian Book Publishers' Association (now known as the Australian Publishers Association) in 1965-67 and undertook stints in allied organisations and committees, including the Australian the Book Trade Advisory Committee, the A.B.P.A. book export development committee, the Australian Book Fair Committee and the judges' panel of the A.B.P.A.'s annual book design awards. He introduced the Australian Book