Word: flyleaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typewriter keyboard-where the $ and % signs snuggle in compelling proximity. The principal practitioners of this profitable art are literary agents, the canny manipulators of today's flourishing writer's market. Authors and publishers alike agree that it is the agent who deserves the traditional flyleaf salute to the person without whose aid, comfort, understanding, affection, patience, encouragement and hard-eyed business sense this book could not have been sold...
...State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, office windows glow far into the night. Presidential address-drafters (Contingency Division) are apparently preparing for every eventuality. One draft of a possible Johnson TV address to the nation, found scribbled on the flyleaf of an abandoned copy of Barbara Ward's The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations, reportedly reads as follows...
...grades, which are in pen, pencil, or crayon on either the flyleaf or title page, clearly represent Reisner's judgment. Many are in his handwriting, but some seem to have been set down by someone else--possibly a person who read the mysteries aloud, for Reisner's eyesight failed in his later years. An example of a dictated grade may be found in Night Express Murder by L.A. Knight: "A (he says B plus, but he enjoyed it until the end, which was poor...
Miller has been bothered by his reviewers, who have either taken the book too seriously, he feels, or not seriously enough. "Some guy from the Detroit Free Press spent the whole time damning the jacket design, and yelling at me for having my age on the flyleaf. The only quote he took from the book was, 'Clive T. Miller was born in Brooklyn in 1938.... That annoyed me. But a reviewer in Pensacola, Florida, took the thing completely seriously. The review said 'this is a hard-hitting, two-fisted novel; there's a rape, there's a rumble, and intimate...
...book prizes are generally for scholarship and character, but, Birge says, "Sometimes I tear out the inscribed flyleaf and give them for other types of ability." When questioned further, Birge explained, "This year I gave them to two scholar-athletes... but it's Harvard's book, and it states exactly what it's given for. There's nothing particularly wrong with...