Misprinted M&D's

[Mark Smith]

The reason I mentioned "If On a Winter's Night a Traveller", by Italo
Calvino is that the whole premise of the book is exactly the situation you
mentioned, i.e. a man buys a book and finds that at page 32 there is an
inssertion of a completely different book, starting at page 17, and this
leads him to return the book to the booksellers.  From then on he gets a
completely different book than he intended, and a quest begins.  It's been
a while since I read it, but I remember being amazed and amused all the
way through.  Sorry to be so obscure in the first place.

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Bob Norton wrote:

> Why would I be thinking of that? I've never read it.
> 
> At 11:11 AM 6/30/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >Are you sure you're not thinking of *If On a Winter's Night a Traveller*,
> >by Italo Calvino?!
> >
> >On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Bob Norton wrote:
> >
> >> A friend of mine just got a copy of M&D with thirty pages of another book
> >> substituted  in the middle of the book. He said it plays hell with the
> >> continuity to have Mason & Dixon turning into Caesar and Cleopatra and then
> >> back again. He's curious to know if anyone else has run into this printing
> >> error and if the book has an enhanced value. Any guesses?
> >> 
> >
>