Word: paperbacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nurse Patterson's idea, to tighten and tone up physiognomies suffering from middle-age sag, is presented in Facial Isometrics. The $1 paperback is illustrated by the faces of a male and a female model who both look as if unspeakable tortures were being performed on their lower extremities. No wonder. The author's instructions urge practitioners...
...Good grief!" cried Candy, "4500 copies in two weeks!" She had just been told of the sales record her biography had established in the Harvard Square area since its release in paperback early in January...
Eight stores in the Square have been selling from one to four of the recently published paperback editions of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's satirical novel. Candy has been on display for an average of twelve days in each store with an estimated total sale of 4440 copies--one every 17 minutes...
...book's buyers in all the stores are said to be predominently male. The Paperback Booksmith reported that purchases are most frequent in the late evening hours...
...about a year ago, a 15-year-old boy in a small town in Massachusetts smuggled a small paperback into his house on his way home from school. It was only 95c, and he had heard from his friends that it was really a bargain at that price, so he thought he would take a look at it. the only trouble was that his mother happened to find it around his room, and she called a friend to tell her about her son's shocking purchase. This friend had a cousin who knew a lot about "dirty books," the mother...