Word: dover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things are a little out of the ordinary at 50-12 Dover Road, Queens. For eleven years, Isabel Moore has been nursing her widowed father through a series of debilitating strokes. The first occurred when she was 19, and she has done the dirty, exhausting job all by herself. She is aware that almost no one of her generation would make the choice that she did, but she likes the "balletic routine" of caring for an invalid. There had been an ugly, whining housekeeper named Margaret Casey, but Isabel loathed her and summoned the force to throw...
...theory, anyone with scissors could emulate Dover's vast output and multimillion-dollar volume. The prospect is pleasant: bygone writers do not require royalties, and artists from other epochs are in greater demand now than they were in their own lifetimes. "All it takes to maintain Dover," says its president and owner, "is judgment, hard work and luck...
...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-into a publishing house. "We didn't choose Dover for romantic English connotations," says Blanche, the company's executive vice president. "We named our business after the building we lived...
...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...
...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...