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Books by the Yard
Clark, Mary Vida | April 4, 1918 issue

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During the twenty years that she has lived in New York, the author has never been able to reach her office without passing a second-hand book-store. The more humane purveyors to the victims of another appetite conceal their stock in trade by opaque swinging doors, but no such protection is placed about the helpless bibliophile. The author chooses books for their appearance rather than their contents. The author's primary consideration in arranging books is size and color, with such attention to subject, language, and their author as will not interfere with the more important requirement of appearance in a pleasing and unobtrusive background.

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