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Arion Press books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Huntington Library, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the British Library, among others. Two of the Press's books were honored among the one hundred great books of the 20th Century in the 1994 Museum of Modern Art exhibition One Hundred Years of Artists Books. [12]
Airport is a novel by British-Canadian writer Arthur Hailey. Published by Doubleday in 1968, the story concerns a large metropolitan airport and its operations during a severe winter storm. Plot
Bookpeople was an employee-owned and operated book wholesaler and distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area.It operated from 1969-2003. [2] Bookpeople was one of the major forces behind the renaissance of independent publishing that occurred during this period. [3]
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The airport novel represents a literary genre that is defined not so much by its plot or cast of stock characters, but by the social function it serves.Designed to meet the demands of a very specific market, airport novels are superficially engaging while not being necessarily profound, usually written to be more entertaining than philosophically challenging.
But for many of us, San Francisco isn’t home. That’s why we’re bringing you there with our latest selection for Just Booked, our series on gorgeous new travel books, San Francisco: Portrait ...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book was co-founded by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch, [3] who recognized a growing need in San Francisco and the Bay Area for a facility specifically designed and equipped for the book arts. The first center of its kind on the West Coast, SFCB was incorporated in March 1996 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization ...