Quotes About Pocket book

OUT TODAY — THE NEW POCKET BOOK THAT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE AMERICA'S READING HABITS' (from a 1939 Pocket Book advertisement)

We are told how Washington carried this little book in his pocket through the Indian wars and how his life was saved by it receiving bullets or arrows aimed at the great chieftain."23 (It apparently never occurred to Rev. Robinson to wonder why there were no bullet or arrow holes in the book's pages in Henkels's facsimile reproduction.) Naturally,