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Its trade-mark, consisting of the words "Bantam Books" and the portrayal of a bantam, is registered in the United States Patent Office and in other countries.

In the air-conditioned comfort of the Amtrak Levitrain, he was fast asleep and dreaming of books that sang to their readers.

She was sitting at her desk in the cubbyhole that passed for an editor's office at Bunker Books, staring out the half window at the slowly disappearing view of the stately Chrysler Building.

On Lori's desk, stuffing the bookshelves along the cheap plastic partition that divided the window and separated her cubicle from the next, strewn across the floor between the partition and gray metal desk, piled high along the window ledge.

The reception area was larger than the entire set of grubby editorial cubicles down at Bunker Books.

The pile of dirty dishes nearly obscured it, but the red x's on the calendar showed how the days had marched, one after another, without a word from Bunker Books.

For all he knew, the manuscript had never even gotten to Bunker Books.

He was heading for New York, for Bunker Books, for his rendezvous with destiny.

The walls of the windowless conference room bore faded color prints from the covers of old Bunker books.

There were those in Bunker Books who claimed she should be a "three-fer," since her skin was quite dark as well.

The editor usually started with the author's name and a brief listing of the author's previous books.

It takes roughly two years for the accounting department to figure out that the books the editor is putting out don't sell.

Meanwhile, over at the competition's office across the street, they've just found out that one of their editors has been putting out books for the past two years that don't sell.

With sudden intensity, he added, "And the editors all publish the same sorts of books, the books that interest them.

And they publish books that look good in New York, but sink like lead turds once they cross the Hudson.