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“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
Mar 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Some prominent literary titles of the 1970s by DeLillo, Stone and Pynchon on Steven Levy’s shelf during a recent discussion about chatbots with @WalterIsaacson. @StevenLevy

#ModernFirsts
1/2 Spotted:

RATNER’S STAR; Don DeLillo (1976), next to MAO II (1991)

DOG SOLDIERS; Robert Stone (1974)

GRAVITY’S RAINBOW; Thomas Pynchon (1973)

(I won’t be surprised to see an AI chatbot eventually master this skill.)

@StevenLevy 2/2
Mar 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Some esoteric book publishing history trivia promoted by the recent death of Gerard Van Der Leun, a book editor at Houghton Mifflin in the early 1980s.

Earlier this week @xPamelaPainterx recalled how GVDL got in a bit of corporate hot water in 1982.

A #BookHistory 🧵
1/5 For decades the Houghton Mifflin colophon depicted variations on the image of a piper later joined with a dolphin, the Cetacean being traditionally used as a publisher’s logo since it was the trademark of printer Aldus Manutius in 1502.

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