Word: houghton
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...nothing he has done approaches the commercial potential -- or, for the publishers, the commercial risk -- of his latest book, a collaboration with novelist Mark Helprin on a retelling of the Swan Lake legend (Houghton Mifflin; $19.95). He and Helprin received an unprecedented $801,000 advance, and the first printing is 275,000 copies, at least ten times the normal first run for an illustrated children's book. Swan Lake's publication, quite simply, is the biggest gamble in the history of children's books...
...students were given the Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting, a new award created in honor of the late Philip Hofer '21, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Houghton Mifflin; 592 pages...
Despite the apparent similarities between Galbraith and the book's protagonist, both the professor and his editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co. said the novel is not autobiographical...
...Houghton Mifflin; 419 pages...