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Schoenhof's Foreign Books (76A Mt. Auburn St.) recently opened at this expanded location. This foreign language buffs' paradise will send away for rare titles, just as the Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) will take special orders for poetry books. Contemporary poets stop by here occasionally to get their picture taken or just to browse through the 9000 poetry titles...
Flanked by a platter of chablisfilled glasses, poet and self-styled cultural rebel Allen Cimsberg came to the Grolier Book Store Saturday to sign copies of his new 800-page anthology of poems...
...find four bookstores. The Star Book Shop is one, and across the street, in the former site of the late Harvard Pizza, is McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.), with used and rare books. Another place, for those who tire of prose, is the famous Grolier Book Shop (6 Plymton St.), alive since 1927. "Minimum of prose" reads the sign in the window, and they speak the truth. Tall bookcases house poetry collections, little magazines, books about poets and their works, and casettes of readings. Special orders and mail orders can be done here as well. The Harvard Book...
...Schoenhof's on Mass. Ave. (though soon to move to the basement of a Harvard finals club). Can't read another language? Not to worry, this store has close to a dozen different French-English dictionaries. If your taste runs more to Dickinson than Danish, head around to Grolier Book Shop on Plympton St. Grolier expounds the karma of poetry hang around to catch occasional readings, book parties for modern day Petrarch as well as the Square's most extensive poetry collection...
Despite the caution of other publishers, Grolier remains optimistic about computerized reference sources. Says Frank Farrell, president of the electronic-publishing division: "We intend to break the constrictions of the printed page and make reading more dynamic." The firm is already planning a videodisc encyclopedia that may use laser technology. This would allow a student with a divided terminal screen to hear a Beethoven symphony while reading an article about the composer...