The Grey Cover book is only about 24 pages (I have copy buried in
files)...... too expense to make it into hardback. It's a "short
story"....and it would be in the music/opera/reference section....it's not
a major novel....the story covers the operata translation from Russian.
jko
"Barb Junkkarinen" <barbREMOVEjfk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The last posted so far.
>
> I hope she keeps this up! I do wonder why Martin doesn't read them
> first and send them back for rewrite,pointing out all the places she
> conflicts even with her own self, though!
>
>
> On 15 May 2008 10:36:35 -0400, "Martin Shackelford"
> <mshack4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>
>>the gray book:
>>At U LA, if you didn't know the name of a book, you couldn't get it
brought
>>down...not knowing what was up there, i could not ask for it...the
library
>>under reconstruction and elevators not working, i was confined to the
first
>>floor for a year....
>>[Louis] Girdler asked the librarian specifically for a book with "The
Queen
>>of Spades" in it and she described it....but he's such a silly goose, as
he
>>didn't require her to find a book written in russian...my bad back made
it
>>impossible to climb the many stairs to the fourth or fifth
>>floor...impossible... but what's im****tant is that the ONLY Russian
Pushkin
>>they had up there with the requisite short story the Queen of
Spades--had a
>>RED cover. I described, as you know, a gray cover. Furthermore, the red
>>cover was a hardback, not floppy.
>>
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