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...megabucks, however, do not rest in standard first editions but in bound galleys, the paper-wrapped publisher's advance copies distributed to reviewers, talk-show hosts and other promotional outlets. Galleys are rarer: usually only 50 to 200 are printed. A copy of V., by the elusive Thomas Pynchon, brings $350 in a first edition, $850 in a bound galley. A well-preserved galley of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye commands $5,000. Even pop chillers like Stephen King's Carrie are listed at $200 in galley form...
Domestic and political oddities abounded in the Nixon White House, at least as recalled by Ehrlichman, 56, in his third book, Witness to Power. The catty memoir will not be in bookstores until next month, but newsworthy tidbits began surfacing last week after the publisher, Simon & Schuster, sent advance galley proofs to 22 friends and journalists who might supply prepublication blurbs...
Crab claws, beef tenderloins and breakfast eggs were stacked in the galley...
...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
...Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young, who had to make do with the hoses and plastic bags aboard the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, will probably be particularly fond of a zero-,? toilet with toeholds and a warm-air "flush" to carry off wastes...