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MOUNTAIN CITY?Upton Sinclair?A. & C. Boni...
...WOMAN OF ANDROS-Thornton Wilder-Boni...
GENIUS IN LOVE AND DEATH-Paul Wiegler; translated by Carl Raushenbush -Boni...
Publisher Boni offered $35,000, and again the deal was made-but not signed. Clemenceau said he must notify the other bidder which was, he said, the New York Times. He agreed to give Publisher Boni a chance to match any higher...
Then the fun began. By fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...