----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Lynskey" <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 27,
2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Black Wings Has My
Angel
> I read Web of Murder recently and concur. A question
comes to
> mind re: the availability/distribution of Gold
Medals. So many
> GMs were sold. So, could you walk into any
drugstore, service
> station, or cash-and-carry and pick up one? Were
Gold Medals
> only sold through certain chain stores? Did
bookstores carry
> Gold Medals?
>
> Ed
When I first started buying paperbacks in the early Sixties,
drugstores and grocery stores were my main sources of books.
All the stores like that around here had a spinner rack of
paperbacks, including Gold Medals. The big department stores
usually had book sections with a good supply of paperbacks.
(I even worked in a department store book section for a while
in the mid-Seventies.) Some stores must have had a deal with
a particular publisher, because they carried only books from
that publisher. I remember one that had only Bantam Books,
another that had only Dell and Pocket Books.
Most of the Gold Medals I bought new came from a drugstore
close to where I lived.
James Reasoner
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