Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eventual sale of the U. S. book rights only to Harcourt Brace, leaves M. Clemenceau free to dicker with bidders for the U. S. serial rights and other rights abroad. He may yet reap more than...
...America will be surprised to learn I am better, eh?" said he. "Heh, heh, I am reserving still greater surprises for America in my book...
Scorning his self-designed "Japanese" bed with its carved and gilded dragon headboard, he sat upright by his desk, his soft felt trench cap on his big head, grey woolen gloves on his hands, writing, correcting proof, revising his new book that is so nearly ready, between fits of drowsing in his chair...
...book that was keeping him alive, but another book by Georges Clémenceau appeared on U. S. bookstalls last week.** In two ponderous volumes the Tiger agilely avoids autobiography, memoirs, history; explains at great length his carefully reasoned atheism under such headings as: Abstraction; Myths; Religious Bargains and Their Results; Philosophic Doubt; Diffusion; Cosmogonies; Cosmology...
...Publishers Harcourt Brace & Co. will spring the surprise. They paid a reputed $35,000 for the U. S. book rights. First U. S. publisher to discover that the Tiger would write his memoirs was astute Albert Boni of Albert Charles Boni, Inc. From Paris last spring he went out to see the old gentleman. He learned that the best offer Clémenceau had had for world rights on the book was 25,000 francs ($1,000), from a French publisher. Publisher Boni offered $25,000. Amazed, delighted, M. Clémenceau struck the bargain then and there. But Publisher...