Comments on: Best Sellers http://blog.oup.com/2008/12/best-sellers/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: skg http://blog.oup.com/2008/12/best-sellers/comment-page-1/#comment-148545 skg Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:19:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2602#comment-148545 FWIW, Rice's <em>Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch</em> (not Wiggles) was in print in the U.S. and sold by either Brentano's or B. Dalton during the early 1980s. My aunt bought me a paperback copy. She said she'd wanted to buy an actual Cabbage Patch doll but had settled for the book. (I wasn't much interested in either one.) The bookshops were common U.S. metro chain stores; Brentano's was eaten by Waldenbooks (now Borders-run) a few years later, and Dalton is operated now by Barnes and Noble. FWIW, Rice’s Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (not Wiggles) was in print in the U.S. and sold by either Brentano’s or B. Dalton during the early 1980s. My aunt bought me a paperback copy. She said she’d wanted to buy an actual Cabbage Patch doll but had settled for the book. (I wasn’t much interested in either one.)

The bookshops were common U.S. metro chain stores; Brentano’s was eaten by Waldenbooks (now Borders-run) a few years later, and Dalton is operated now by Barnes and Noble.

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