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Article: Missouri silver.(Books about antiques)(Missouri's Silver Age: Silversmiths of the 1800s)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Because books are published in absurd numbers a great many vanish like Shakespeare's "poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." Sometimes this swift and ignominious passage is planned before the book is on press. A world weary publisher I knew used to arrange with a remainder house that they take a title before it was even printed, and he then built the proceeds into his estimate of the profit the book would turn.
The compensation for this dismal trend are books that appeal only to a small number of readers but nonetheless refuse to disappear. These are useful books, and for reasons of economy they are rarely ...