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Focuses on Book-of-the-Month Club Inc., a bookstore in the U.S. Art club run by the company; Description of paintings displayed in the art club; Management principle of book company doing art business.

The article presents a discussion of Leary's Book Store, located on 9th Street in Philadelphia. It mentions that Leary's was founded in 1836 and is one of the world's largest dealers in old books. It is the only real bookstore that has served as a setting for one of the chapters of a best-selling novel, "The Haunted Book Shop," by Christopher Morley.

The article highlights the competition between Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas in terms of city prosperity as of March 30, 1946. The two cities hardly agreed on a combined central field in an airport. Cokesbury bookstore in Dallas sells about $1,250,000 worth of books every year. Agriculture in Fort Worth has been moving from cotton and corn toward cow, sow and hen.

The article presents information on the PX shopping center, located in the U.S. Army or Air Force community compound. Contrary to public legend, PX's are not all exactly the same. Although all 5933 of them are directed by the central Army and Air Force Exchange Service in New York and supplied through fourteen similar ware home depots in the fourteen PX districts of the world, some are larger and more luxurious than others, some are better staffed, some have a wider choice of merchandise. PX buying is highly centralized under an "automatic supply" system, a system patterned on the chain store but considerably less flexible.

The article focuses on the stageplay shown by the conversation between two fictitious bookshop owners Nelson and Averell Karamazov, about an author S.J. Perelman and his recent book. They discuss about a character from his new book who visits their bookstore daily and has subscribed to too many magazines and newspapers. They also comment on his taste of books and the type of literature he is fond of. Then at last they discuss the works of Perelman and his humor collection and then reveal off their masks to appear as alter egos of S.J. Perelman.

The article focuses on Baldwins' Book Barn, a bookshop located in the Brandywine valley in Pennsylvania and owned by William and Lilla Baldwin. The bookshop was opened to the public in August 1948. A large portion of their trade comes from tourists who visit the Longwood Gardens, diplomats from Washington and businessmen from the Middle West. According to the Baldwins, one of the delights of their business is the revelations of human nature that happen.

Relates the experience of the author on spending hours in bookstores. Accounts on the work of contemporary authors; Concept of a secondhand book; Interest in making money in the book auctions.

Presents the author's reflections on working as a clerk in Brentano's Bookstore in New York City before World War II. Brentano's particular interest in old and rare books; Description of the riffling process, which was done to make sure that old books did not have anything inserted in their leaves before they were resold; Author's failure to riffle a set of books, which had paper money interleaved in them.

The article discusses the book " Shakespeare and Company," by Sylvia Beach. Shakespeare and Company managed to survive the beginning of the invasions of World War IL Then one day Sylvia was warned the Germans would sequester her books. So with the aid of

The article focuses on bookstores in East Berlin which seem better supplied with books than with customers. On the shelves, one finds a fascinating choice of Russian classics in excellent German translations; many of them masterpieces not translated in any other European language. Vladimir Korolenko's huge two-volume autobiography, "The Story of One of My Contemporaries" can now be purchased in German, and makes fascinating reading. Some American authors are on display in East-German editions. William S. Blake's "The Copperheads" is a popular item, also Howard Fast's "Citizen Tom Paine" and his "Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel."

Focuses on the secondhand bookshops and customers at the Book Row on lower Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. Personality and preferences of customers; Popularity of books related to magic and witchcraft; Turnover generated by dealers from classical books.

The author reflects on the book "Mein Kampf," by Adolf Hitler and a book published by Mao Tse-Tung, leader of Communist China. He cites that Hitler's book, which is his political manifesto, attracted general attention but was later dismissed as the work of a lunatic. He argues that Mao's book is a more sober book than Hitler's, but equally plainspoken. He states that communist bookshops were selling reprints of Mao's book for only twenty-five-cents in the U.S.

The article features the Raymer's bookshop in Seattle, Washington which also functions as a post office. The late owner Charles D. Raymer started the mailbox service of the shop which was carried on by present proprietors, Lew Chlarson and his wife. The customers pay 3 dollars a year for the mailbox service.

The article provides information about the Abraham Lincoln BookShop in Chicago, Illinois. The bookstore, which was owned by Ralph Newman, specialized on books about Lincoln and civil war. When Newman, the sole proprietor, departed for the Navy, everyone feared that the bookstore will be closed. Essentially, due to the collaborative effort of the volunteers like John Valentine, the bookstore remained open and was transferred to a much bigger location.