New York Times upside down

[George Thompson]

In the 1950s there was a line of cheap paperbacks from a publisher
called Ace: Ace Double Books.  Each volume was two novels printed "dos-
a-dos" -- which I believe is the proper bibliographer's jargon.  I
still have one, containing 2 P. G. Wodehouse novels.  Another turned
out to be a collector's item, since it was the first printing of
William Burrough's first (?) book: Junkie, by "William Lee".  Check
your attic.  I only saw this one once, very many years ago, and do not
remember the name of the title it was backed with.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ittaob at AOL.COM
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: New York Times upside down

> The Times did not adopt the "flipped" Sports section for budgetary
> reasons, as Laurence Horn wrote, but because they can only print
> up to 4 "breaking news" sections each day for mechanical reasons.
>
> BTW, back in 1973, the Stanford Law School Yearbook used the same
> format. From one side, the book opened to a section about the
> graduating seniors. When flipped over, it had a second cover which
> opened to a section about the other students.
>
> Steve Boatti
>