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[zencat]

I've been posting some original newspaper ads for the John Gardner books on my blog. I love this stuff.

For Special Services
http://www.thebookbo...nniversary.html

Icebreaker
http://www.thebookbo...-from-1983.html

Role of Honor
http://www.thebookbo...le-in-1984.html

More to come.

[doublenoughtspy]

Wonderful ads. Thanks for scanning & sharing. Too bad B. Dalton and Waldenbooks are no more.

[zencat]

Wonderful ads. Thanks for scanning & sharing. Too bad B. Dalton and Waldenbooks are no more.

It is too bad.

I worked in a Waldenbooks in 1984-85 (it was the "Broadway Plaza" one listed in this ad). Our rival was a B. Dalton downstairs. On my lunch break one day I walked past the B. Dalton and there was ROH on display in the window. I hadn't seen it yet! I dashed back to my store and ripped open all the boxes in the back until I found our shipment.

Crown Books really knocked off B. Dalton and Waldenbooks (I have some Crown ads for Gardner as well). Then Barnes & Noble and Borders knocked off Crown. Now Amazon has knocked off everyone.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Thanks for this Zen!!

[zencat]

Here's No Deals Mr. Bond and Nobody Lives Forever.

http://www.thebookbo...ls-in-1987.html

[zencat]

The last one: Scorpius.

http://www.thebookbo...us-in-1988.html