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...walking through the Dover catalogue can choose from 2,000 oddities, including The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Three Prophetic Novels by H.G. Wells, Persian Miniature Painting, Complete String Quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven and Build Your Own Inexpensive Dollhouse. "And that's only a beginning," says Cirker...
...house author, one M. Hector Berlioz, has stated, "The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck." Cirker, 60, has been displaying that talent for 35 years. "I graduated from City College in 1936," he recalls. "The teeth of the Depression. I had studied art and science, and I was attracted by publishing. The only job available in that profession was shipping clerk for Crown. I was glad to take it." Six years later Cirker and his young wife, Blanche, took a deep breath and plunged their meager savings-a few hundred dollars...
Dover's first volume was not destined to be made into a major motion picture. Tables of Functions, a mathematical treatise, had been out of print for years. A physicist told Cirker that there might be a small market if it were reprinted; three decades later the book is still offered in the catalogue. "It became a bestseller...
...scientific world," says Cirker...
Dover's gleaming, laminated covers and sprightly interiors belie their origins. Eighteen years ago, after shuttling around Manhattan, the Cirkers settled on Varick Street, a glum manufacturing area south of Greenwich Village. The industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail...