Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
Boasting titles including Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk, Revolution in Poetic Language and the World Almanac of 1974, the Widener Library tradition is perfect for book lovers...
...times, the director said, some-what rare books may require hours of cross referencing to determine a price. Wheeler, employed at Harvard for 15 years, said that only a true "book person" could fill his job, which he said requires subtle and somewhat obscure knowledge...
...delivered 20-some copies of Mike's book to members of the department and said, `read it over the weekend,' and they did," Schelling recounts. "By the meeting on Tuesday they were, I would say, wildly enthusiastic--because they had read the book...
...McIntyre, a large part of the fun of owning a used-book store is in fact the oportunity to buy works on all kinds of bizarre topics. As he says, "We don't mess with textbooks...