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It was written in 1951
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and it was published in 1957 by Viking.
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So last year we were treated to these two books.
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One thing that fascinates me about them is that they are examples of
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how publishing houses rely on known names for making money.
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So, Viking has On the Road in their backlist,
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so they can make new copies.
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The pagination of this is exactly the same.
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All they did was bind; they made a retro cover,
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and they bound the original book review from the New York Times into the front.
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They just printed that in, and then they just reproduced the text again,
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so it becomes a sort of keepsake book.