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Sellyer laid his hand on a pile of new books, apparently as numerous as the huge pile of Golden Dreams. "Among the Monkeys," he repeated, almost caressingly. "It seems rather expensive," said the lady. "Oh, very much so a most expensive book," the manager repeated in a tone of enthusiasm. "You see, Mrs.
The Monkeys was sold as a sea story, a land story, a story of the jungle, and a story of the mountains, and it was put at a price corresponding to Mr. Sellyer's estimate of the purchaser. At last after a busy two hours, the store grew empty for a moment. "Wilfred," said Mr. Sellyer, turning to his chief assistant, "I am going out to lunch. Keep those two books running as hard as you can.
Here is the very latest Among the Monkeys of New Guinea, ten dollars, reduced to four-fifty. The manufacture alone costs six-eighty. We're selling it out. Thank you, Judge. Send it? Yes. Good morning." After that the customers came and went in a string. I noticed that though the store was filled with books ten thousand of them, at a guess Mr. Sellyer was apparently only selling two.
I had hardly read more than the first three chapters when my attention was diverted by a conversation going on in the front of the store. "You're quite sure it's his LATEST?" a fashionably dressed lady was saying to Mr. Sellyer. "Oh, yes, Mrs. Rasselyer," answered the manager. "I assure you this is his very latest. In fact, they only came in yesterday."
So it was that even so up-to-date a manager as Mr. Sellyer tolerated my presence in a back corner of his store: and so it was that I had an opportunity of noting something of his methods with his real customers methods so successful, I may say, that he is rightly looked upon by all the publishing business as one of the mainstays of literature in America.
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