I’m old enough to remember when college and university bookstores contained a lot of interesting books and journals – and that’s pretty old. Even at my small liberal art college, the bookstore was a marvel. And my favorite holdover volume from those years (aside from the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which I wrote about in “The Thrill of Reference”) is a lovely curiosity titled Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, by F.E. Peters, published in 1967 by New York University Press.
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