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Sir.-In The Listener for November 18 you gave a description of Pyramid Valley by Roger Duff so flattering that on December 6 I rang up a bookseller and asked him to get me a copy. He replied that they had sold all they had
got, but would try to get one for mie. ‘Again in The Listener for December 30 you reviewed The Coming of the Maori by Sir Peter Buck. I at once rang up the bookseller again, and again I found that it was sold out. What is the good of recommending books to us that are already out of print? It is most exasperating. Why can’t you get an advance copy of classics like these so that you could print your review in time to let your readers have a chance to get one? Tll.owe you a grudge over this for a long time. Annoyed is much too mild a word, I feel furious.
THOS.
TODD
(Gisborne).
(We have also been criticised for reviewing, books before they are in the shops. Nevertheless, reviews are not advertisements, and we feel no obligation to discover whether or not books are available before we discuss them. Our task is simply to review~books which are at His us for that purpose by the publishers. -Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 5
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