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To Random House. Spoke to <u>Fabio</u>. Doesn't have any further info  <br>
To Random House. Spoke to <u>Fabio</u>. Doesn't have any further info  <br>
on the
on the reprint of ''<u>AGOG</u>''. Now he would like a book on math <br>
games for children. Told him I'd like that and I'll contact him <br>
when I get back. He'll take me to lunch.  <br>
I told <u>Fay</u> that I hadn't rcd. the copies of ''<u>AGOG</u>''. She called  <br>
Miriam, who is in charge of the remainders. Miriam came  <br>
down to speak to me (Fay left for lunch). She told me that  <br>
someone had either mislaid or stolen the 25 copies put aside  <br>
for me. She had 1 left and she gave it to me.  <br>
She said that I should't feel bad about my book being  <br>
remaindered. It happens to the best of authors.  <br>
I asked her about Castle Books and their parent - Book Sales.  <br>
The companies are run by two very honest men. Originally  <br>
Book Sales was (and still is) in the remaindering business.  <br>
But they then decided that, since some of the books did so  <br>
well, why not reprint them.  <br>
Miriam thought that they would sell the reprint for about  <br>
$1.95. Random House will buy 25 copies from Book Sales to  <br>
give me for the 25 I never got. This is in addition to any I  <br>
get from my contract with Book Sales.
 
To Brentano's. <u>Phil Orbanes</u>' <u>ORBIT</u> was attracting a lot  <br>
of attention. Nothing else new there. They had a whole,  <br>
out of the way, shelf of <u>THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME</u>,  <br>
price $5.  <br>
To Abercrombie and Fitch. Saw <u>2-WAY CHECKERS</u> (Yippee, N.Y. 271).  <br>
It is played like <u>CHECKERS</u> except that the  <br>
checkers have numbers written on them as  <br>
shown (starting position).  <br>
 
[Diagram of a checker board. Some of the spaces are filled with numbers. 1, 5, 10, and 25.]
 
When no further captures (or moves, I guess) can be made  <br>
the player who has the highest numerical value of checker(s)  <br>
remaining is the winner.  <br>
He scores the numerical value of all the remaining pcs.  <br>
on the board - both players.  <br>
There are a number of variations which  <br>
I didn't get completely. One involves the pcs. being placed  <br>
face down. When a player makes a capture he must give the  <br>
number of his pc. doing the capturing. If he is wrong the  <br>
pcs. stay on. Another variation is transferring positions  <br>
as in <u>HALMA</u>. One way in directly across. Another is getting  <br>
(cont. on 9/6)