Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to an announcement made last night by the Red Book Committee. The entire book has already gone to press and it is expected that two weeks will be sufficient for the completion of the printing. The place where the new Red Book will first go on sale has not yet been determined but will be announced within the course of the next week...
...work of gathering subscriptions has gone forward with great rapidity. The having already been taken. This is a larger number than that reached at a corresponding time last spring and should insure the sale of the larger part of the editions since only 800 copies are being printed, over 100 less then of the 1929 Red Book. Those who still wish to obtain subscriptions may secure them from Red Book representatives in either Gore, Smith, or Standish Hall Common Rooms between 12.30 and 1.30 o'clock daily. A limited number of copies will also be on a sale...
...faulty copies of the Christian Science gospel, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, came up for auction sale in Manhattan last week. It was a first (1875) edition and contained many printer's errors. Mary Baker Eddy knew of 66. Economical, she disliked reprinting the whole volume; honest she listed the errata on a separate leaf. Because one of these errata leaves was in the book offered for sale last week...
Widener Library, it was announced last night, has just received from England nearly 1000 "Titles," of English literary and historical tracts of the seventeenth century. These books and pamphlets were puchassed by a friend at the recent auction sale of the famous Britwell Court library...
...these days," he continued, "a sale of 100,000 copies of a piece is considered extraordinary partly because of the great number of song, writers in business who did not write ten years ago. There are so many pieces on the market that only the unusual ones prove of large selling value...