Word: mifflin
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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...
...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...
Like many of its competitors, Barillari Books at the newly developed One Mifflin Place, offers a wide selection of everything from classic literature to the latest in coffee table reading...