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Article: Selling your alphabet is as easy as ABC
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 1994
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A is for apple. But that is just the start. Collectors in the
international market for children's ABC books have paid as much as
pounds 35,000 for a scarce specimen. Dubbing themselves
alphabetographers or abecedarians, they swap trade gossip and
perform lexicographical feats in their own monthly journal,
launched in New York last June. Example: create an alphabet of
antonyms - pairs of words with opposite meanings.
Founder of the journal, called N is for Newsletter, is Nyr
Indictor, a former director of Sotheby's Japanese department in
London. Guest writers provide essays on such topics as "The Vexing
X". His bibliography of ABC books contains 1,200 titles, but he
reckons more than 5,000 ...