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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 reprint of <u>AGOG</u>. Now he would like a book on math <br> | 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> | 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> | 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> | 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> | 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> | down to speak to me (Fay left for lunch). She told me that <br> | ||
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She said that I should't feel bad about my book being <br> | She said that I should't feel bad about my book being <br> | ||
remaindered. It happens to the best of authors. <br> | remaindered. It happens to the best of authors. <br> | ||
I asked her about | 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) | |||