"There was a time when second-hand book sellers in book towns were first of all selling books and secondly selling the experience of browsing, " explained Mr Turpin.
However, the days when second-hand book shops were the only place to find a book you could not get in a high street store are long gone.
In 1963, at the age of forty-six, he made up for it by setting up his own informal school in a London railway station, teaching half a dozen teenagers in exchange for a little tobacco or a second-hand art book.
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But he chose to be sworn in with his hand on a book of U.S. laws.
The latest two were a husband and wife team of evangelical protestants, Rosinha Matheus and Anthony Garotinho, who ran the state with a Bible in one hand and cheque book in the other.
Specifically, this book that I am holding in my hand, do you believe this book?
As a young boy who loved literature, I had no book at hand that spoke my own language back to me.
As he comes up to her, she turns her head, places a hand in her open book to keep it from closing.
It shows the writer with a book in his hand accompanied by members of his second family.
Just thinking about him with a book in one hand and a huge grin on his white-bearded face made me smile.
His client also requested deluxe print materials, so Mr. Saslove created a 30-page coffee-table book that was hand-wrapped in Italian suede.
Mr Clarke accused his predecessors David Blunkett and John Reid of governing with "a cheque book in one hand and the Daily Mail in the other".
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But the subject, exhibition organisers say, bears a strong resemblance to a later portrait of Golding Constable, which belongs to Tate, and the book in his hand is also said to closely resemble the Constable family Bible.
Yet, no matter how many people read the book with highlighters in hand, it failed to change how we approach deal making.
The book is full of beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and helpful, realistic ideas (plus lots of quotations, which I always love).
On the other hand, the price-to-book ratio is a useful measure of value, and most researchers agree that this ratio is strongly correlated with stock price performance.
The book you hold in your hand is my attempt to wrestle with the creative cultural expressions of often degraded black youth that have garnered them international acclaim.
At one point, he stops, distracted by my camera, and starts listing the various things he has learned to do with cameras, how he has tried his hand at journalism and recently written a book.
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Others share his ambition: Papi is so concerned with preserving tradition that he has written a book dedicated to the importance of hand-finishing watches.
Traditional book advances, on the other hand, are more like a project, particularly given that few authors recoup their advance and start earning royalties.
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Do you have to have your - you have to raise your hand, or do you have to have your hand on any work of literature or any book?
The impulse to hand over navigational control to readers in a digital book is considerable.
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When I turned 12, I was given a hand-me-down guitar and a chord book.
And I mean specifically, this book that I am holding in my hand.
This book by Sivers, on the other hand, astonished me with the sheer concentration of fresh insights on business and entrepreneurialism, in such a small space.
To be accurate, I would have liked to see more first-hand, primary research, interviews and accounts in the book.
Your current location in the book in displayed in the lower left-hand corner.
It might be with a gun, an army, a holy book, a law, an invisible free-market hand.
You must be constantly saying to yourself about whatever book, fact, argument, person or experience is at hand: Why?
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