If Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman’s comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can ...

For four years, their marriage bore the weight of 6.6 million words-which turned out to be about 11 pounds when printed. Bedeviled by a last-minute geographical scrambling of Eastern Europe, torn by ...

No new comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia has been published for about six years, but editions of two such books are now on their way to the nation’s bookstores and at least two others are waiting ...

Columbia University Press has published several major reference works, including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the ”Columbia History of the World.” Its latest entry is the ”Columbia Literary History ...

THIS massive volume, twelve inches by nine inches in its superficial dimensions, nine and a half pounds in weight and containing, within the compass of its nineteen hundred and fifty pages, not less ...