Word: hardback
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...supreme in the small-furry-animal-in-spats market. Charlotte's Web (1952), which has just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon...
...liberal Catholic publishing house of Herder and Herder, on the other hand, has sold some 350,000 hardback English-language copies of the Dutch Catechism...
...huge Protestant evangelical market, however, is flourishing. Word, Inc., a record-and-book publishing firm in Waco, Texas, has produced a pair of phenomenal bestsellers on spiritual group dynamics by an Episcopalian oilman named Keith Miller (TIME, Sept. 19). Together they have sold some 700,000 hardback copies. Other evangelical bestsellers stress personal experience. David Wilkerson's The Cross and the Switchblade, for instance, tells of Wilkerson's life as a street minister amid New York City's gangs, and has sold more than 6,000,000 copies, mostly in paperback, in 24 languages. Some...
Once you've gotten your textbooks, however, you'll find that the Coop also has an excellent paperback department on the second floor of the annex, and a hardback department with all the bestsellers- Love Story, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( but were afraid to ask )- on the first floor. You get the same rebate deal if you join...
...Phillips Books (7 Holyoke St.) has a good hardback selection, and a limited paperback selection upstairs. The Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) specializes in poetry, and is a lot of fun to poke around in. The Star Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) buys and sells old and rare books. It is, incidentally, located right in the back of the Lampoon Building, which is impressive for its ugliness...