New York Times upside down

[A. Maberry]

I think the one with the inverted text is called t^ete-b^eche.

>From the ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science:

"Dos-a-dos. A form of binding in which the books are bound together so as
to open in opposite directions, one of the three boards used being common
to both volumes, and with the two spines and respectively, the fore-edges,
opposed. Compare with t^ete-b^eche."

"T^ete-b^eche. A form of binding in which the text of one work begins at
the "front" and the text of another at the "back", head to tail, with the
texts being inverted with respect to one another. Such a volume usually
includes two or more separate works or versions of the same work(s).
Synonymous with inverted pages. Compare with dos-a-dos."

As I recall, a lot of Canadian government publications are issued like
this with English and French versions t^ete-b^eche.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu



On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, George Thompson wrote:

> 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
> >
>