New York Times upside down

[George Thompson]

Since I sent the message below, I have checked John Carter's ABC of
Book Collecting.  He quotes someone else's definition, one that implies
that "dos a dos" is limited to handbound books with 3 boards, the 3rd
being in the middle, separating the two texts.  It seems to me that I
have also seen the term "tergo a tergo", but it's not in Carter,
Glaister's Glossary of the Book, nor MW's 3rd.  Still, it makes sense,
since "tergo" = "back".

Carter's borrowed definition also says that the French don't use the
term "dos a dos", calling such a book an "edition jumelle".

GAT

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Maberry" <maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: New York Times upside down

> 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
> commonto 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
> usuallyincludes 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
> > >
> >
>