Bookstore offerings

Usage examples of paperbacks.

All around the bed were more bookcase-crates, filled with paperbacks and old hardcover books, and on top of most of the crates were radios: clunky 1960 transistor radios, complicated receivers obviously made from kits, simple crystal sets, several Bakelite 1950s models, and even a huge Philco floor radio against the wall near the foot of the bed.

The wine crates and wooden shelves of paperbacks were reassuring in their familiar clutter.

And all the shelves were jammed with paperbacks, some new and some which seemed to date back to the 1940s.

While he was in each of these Rooms he would read or watch films or listen to tapes, and he would also answer correspondence pertaining to whatever that Room contained-pulps, paperbacks, TV and radio shows, and so on.

He sat on a chair outside the ward and spent his time reading paperbacks and magazines.

Before he got there, he had to skirt an untidy heap of paperbacks and an overturned display rack, the old-fashioned drugstore kind that turned around and around.