Jamie Tan, a children's bookseller at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Ariz., said that when Scholastic published graphic-novel editions of the first four "Baby-Sitters Club" books in 2006, they had been very popular with new readers.
On June 12, it released "National Lampoon Animal House 29th Anniversary Edition," a novel version of the movie that includes still pictures from the film.
During the 19th century, the great size of many subscription libraries enabled them to wield much influence over publishers and authors: Mudie's Circulating Library, for instance, established in London in 1842, would account for the sale of as much as 75 percent of a popular novel's edition.
In my ignorance I hadn't realised The Book of the New Sun is actually four novels; my edition was of the first two, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, so this post is about those.
Dr Warburton said the clarification did not appear in the novel's current edition.
(Professor Campbell wrote the afterword to the novel's 2002 edition).
The falsie Alec Guinness wore as Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948) copied Cruikshank's illustrations from the novel's first edition, but it also caused the film to be delayed, banned and edited.
"Meditations in Green" (1983), his first novel (the Vintage edition came out last summer), is a fever dream of the Vietnam War in which a soldier becomes convinced that the real enemy is the vegetable kingdom itself.
The Guinness Book of World Records still lists "Valley of the Dolls" as the top-selling American novel (its paperback edition sold at a rate of 100,000 copies a day).
When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority banned the subway ads for the novel's paperback edition — which showed a woman undoing a man's zipper — half a million copies sold in one week.
