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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town |
 | | "The special special book, the book with an audience of three—I don't know where it's gone." He went on to explain that two broad principles had governed selection of the treasure, which now numbers a hundred and six volumes. |
 | | Their owner and curator, the narrow and amiable Botsford, who is eighty-four, was once an editor at this magazine, with an office just inside the anteroom where inbound, not-yet-published books, destined to be sent along to reviewers or cast aside, accrued in teetery stacks. |
 | | The Botsford apartment occupies the upper floors of a handsome brownstone, which means that the elevator hall and the bookcase are part of the place, too. |
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