Geoffrey Bles

David Geoffrey Bles (5 September 1886 – 3 April 1957) was a British publisher, with a reputation for spotting new talent. He started his eponymous publishing firm in London in 1923 During the First World War he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in October 1917 and was attached to the 17th Cavalry, Indian Army, in November 1917. He served in the Political Department in Mesopotamia in 1918 before demobilisation in June 1919 and returning to the Indian Civil Service. and Maria von Trapp.

Baum's Grand Hotel (1930), originally published in German, was a huge commercial success for Bles.

William Collins publishers bought the firm of Geoffrey Bles in 1953, and Bles retired within a year or two. Books continued to be published under the Bles imprint into the 1970s. The Garnstone Press purchased the Geoffrey Bles name from Collins in 1971.

Following his death, correspondents commented in The Times on his personal suitability to the genteel world of literary publishing.

His great nephew is the writer William Mortimer Moore whose Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General was published in 2011 and is dedicated to Bles.