Word: booked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations...
...Wagnalls; $3.50). What does a boy do when his parents won't let him have a real pet? He goes looking for a clean, neat animal-and finds a "Rarey." Equally lively is Rosemary Wells' Hungry Fred, with text by Paula Fox (Bradbury Press; $3.95). A mod book with considerable style...
LOOK AT THE MOON, by May Garelick, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (Young Scott; $3.95). The moon that "casts its light for all to see" is shown in a variety of scenes painted in blue and white. A pictorial mood book with a rhyming text, both well done...
...maximum mileage out of his views on the military. He first set them forth in the lead article in the June Harper's. Then he entered the Harper's article in the subcommittee-hearing record, along with his testimony. Last week the article also appeared as a book: 72 pages in hard cover for $3.95; 96 pages in paperback...
Hofer, who founded the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, has been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built," he recalls, "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widner Library, in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widner Library, the temperature would be a minimum...