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GORDON CAIRNIE is not a proper subject for an obituary. He was much too alive ever to die, and much too real to be written about in the usual obituary words. The New York Times said after he died that the Grolier Bookshop was an American equivalent of Shakespeare and Company, and that Gordon was like Sylvia Beach. A lot of people who never knew him must have believed that, but of course it wasn't true. Gordon was a tough old Canadian, not a purple-ascotted Left Bank aesthete...
...Schoenhof's (1280 Mass Ave.) instead. It specializes in everything from books in Amharic to those in Welsh. And if they don't have what you want they will get it for you. Browsers can, be they greenhorn or fanatic, make a lifetime of it. At Grolier's (6 Plympton St.) you never know what rare antique find you may happen upon. It is the same story at the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.), and the Mandrake Bookstore (8 Storey...
Given the location of the Grolier (not Grollier), approximately 100 feet from The Crimson's front door or, to use the vernacular, under its very nose, it seems unfortunate that The Crimson could not have (1) known how to spell the name; or (b) looked out the window; or (c) assured itself that its copy editors and proofreaders know their jobs...
...November 1928, a light plane narrowly missed exterminating the Harvard Band in a freak crash on Soldiers' Field, and The Crimson duly reported the affair. One of the plane's two passengers, Gordon Cairnie, has been The Crimson's next door neighbor for many years, as proprietor of the Grolier Book Shop. When reminded of the event, and The Crimson coverage a few weeks ago, he said "It you write about it, be sure to mention the Grolier Book Shop." And so we have...
...recent conversation at the atavistic Grolier Bookshop, a Signet initiate explained to me that "poems are like jewels." Is Rich a lapidary? Jewels fall in the pockets of the wealthy. Does Rich write for the ruling class? Thomas Goodkind...