Bookbin

Instead of destroying or selling the residue as second-hand stuff, the bookbin should exchange it with other bookbins in the country.

Oversized and thin picture books, which would be lost in conventional shelving, should be placed in bookbins.

Now is the time to clean out those extra books and bring them to the bookbins located around the Department.

Another man might have put little volumes in his left and right coat pockets and salted them in bookbins throughout Manhattan, or stashed them behind other books in bookstores, so that they might have a chance of surviving, much as Herman's mad cousin Harry Crosby did in Paris in the 1920s with books from Cousin Walter Van Rensselaer Berry's library.