At 07:19 PM 6/13/98 -0500, you wrote: I rarely see this kind of thing, but I do have a book titled "Marching Thru Georgia" that was published in the 1800s that has *three* hard covers on it and all three are a different style, color and material! Inside the book it mentions that the books are available with three different covers so I guess this one was a "demo" to show the different cover styles. Also some of the pages are missing. But they weren't removed since the binding is intact and even pages that should be on the same sheet of paper are missing. For example, page 99 will be on the RH page and when you turn the page page 100 should be on the left but it will be missing and page 101 will be there instead! Very strange! I've never seen or heard of a book like it before. Joe

Francois wrote: It's called a trade paperback, originally the way a book was distributed "to the trade" without the expensive hard covers. Before the format had its own chart on the bestseller lists, it was the way that books were released for review before official publication, to distributors, buyers for chain bookstores, magazine reviewers etc. Actually, I get 3-4 such yearly from Del Rey for review a couple of months before the hardcovers come out -- hey, I'm a book reviewer, not a _critic_, I can read. -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_