Word: reprinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...
...poems of William Ferguson's don't do total justice to the man, but give an enticing taste of what will follow in the next issue, when BR will reprint a mass of his work. Ferguson combines a plastic imagination with an infallible ear; these poems show him condensed into a dense, luminous symbolic vocabulary -- a set of difficult hieroglyphs. After all, it takes more than devotion to know that "an ivory place, where needles thick as mirrors drank to excess" represents a hospital, or that "a foot with a thousand hands" is a pine-tree. His choice of quiet...
...Note: This film was shown at the Summer School a decade ago. We reprint herewith the review of it that ran in these pages ten years...
...enlarged S. & S. will be in a more powerful position to bid for blockbusting authors, whose contracts have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. In combination, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books will be better able to assure authors of bonuses for softback reprint rights, while the publishing firm will be able to get those rights without paying fat fees to its hardback competitors...
Sirs: A 21-gun salute to your statistically infallible and comprehensive Essay "The New Demands of the Draft" [Feb. 4]. Would my financial status permit, I would mail a reprint to every draft-age male...