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Flossie turned on him a look of wonder, a look uncertain and inscrutable. "What did you do that for?" "I did it because it was right. I didn't like the business." "That's not quite the same thing, is it?" "Not always. It happened to be in this case." "Why, what sort of business was it?" "It wasn't scavenging, and it wasn't burglary exactly. It was " he hesitated "only the second-hand book-trade."

He looked about him with a gaze uncheered by the contemplation of his plate-glass and mahogany; and as he looked he gathered his beard into a serious meditative hand, not as of old, but with a certain agitation in the gesture. Isaac was suffering from depression; so was the book-trade.

Please tell the artichoke to underestimate valor. Change is made in the book-trade. Lay the end left and put the tooth next, spice the same handkerchief and season the tomato, it is no use to be silly and if there is spoiling why should an atlas show that. It does, that is what makes it a journey. To mention that the sound a piece is all in the same bosom. So then.

The bibliopolist spoke a few words in opposition to my plan, influenced partly, I suspect, by the jealousy of authorship, and partly by an apprehension that the viva voce practice would become general among novelists, to the infinite detriment of the book-trade. Dreading a rejection, I solicited the interest of the merry damsel.

'What made you give up the book-trade, Daddy? asked David, with a smile. It was like the pricking of a bladder. Daddy collapsed in a moment. Sitting down again, he began to arrange his coat elaborately over his knees, as though to gain time. 'David, you're an inquisitive varmint, he said at last, looking up askance at his companion. Some one's been telling you tales, by the look of you.

Hence, as the book-trade and book-buyers know very well, the "almighty dollar" has been hard at work, trying to rear up by its sheer force duplicates of the old European libraries, containing not only all the ordinary stock books in the market, but also the rarities, and those individualities solitary remaining copies of impressions which the initiated call uniques.

He had not got the grip of the London book-trade; he would never build any more Gin Palaces of Art; he had not yet freed himself from the power of Pilkington; and more than all his depression the mortgage of the Harden Library weighed heavily on his soul.

But to see all this, it is necessary to have a broader outlook than the mere limitations of the Prussian Code, the country where schnapps and beet sugar are the staple industries, and you have to study industrial crises by way of the book-trade. It must not be imagined that modern scientific socialism can be done away with by the specific Prussian Socialism of Herr Duehring. Distribution.

In 1520 alone there were more than a hundred editions of Luther's works in German. Though the ordinary book-trade as now carried on was then unknown, there were a multitude of colporteurs actively employed in going with books from house to house, some of them merely in the interests of their trade, others also as emissaries of those who were friends of the cause, thus intended to be furthered.

Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. That is true. But in the book-trade that profit-devourer unknown to Mrs.

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