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...corn, and his style as clear as a summer day. But in 21 years of making children's records, he has amassed a Bingle-sized following among the hobbyhorse set, which also means Bingle-sized record sales. Some of his 950 Decca records, such as the original, out-of-print Babar* series (1936), have even become collector's items...
...shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print book by some obscure French humorist for someone who wanted it. And if a student needed a book that he couldn't afford, Phillips often slyly lowered the price. Once in a while, the philosopher merchant would quote a ridiculously low price on a book he was interested in just...
...whole shelf full of copies of one book while there are only two or three copies of another that contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...
...Mencken Chrestomathy is Mencken's own selection from his out-of-print writings. He has arranged them to deal broadly, and of course irreverently, with morals, women, statesmen, the South, literature and more than a score of other subjects. Worthier books have been published this year, but few that offer even a sizable fraction of the plain reading pleasure to be found in the chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy...
...American language, the "Treatise On The Gods," and one or two others, have passed our of print. This situation disappears tomorrow with the publication of "A Mencken Chrestomathy." "Chrestomathy," Mencken reveals in his preface, means "a collection of choice passages from an author from Mencken's out-of-print works...