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BOOK. A general name given to every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.
     2. The copyright, (q. v.) or exclusive right to print and publish a book, may be secured to the author and his assigns for the term of twenty- eight years; and, if the author be living, and a citizen of the United States, or resident therein, the same right shall be continued to him for the further term of fourteen years, by complying with the conditions of the act of Congress; one of which is, that he shall, within three months after publication, deliver, or cause to be delivered, a copy of the same to the clerk of the said district. Act of February 3, 1831. 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2223.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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(I was also fearing for their contents as one of our tom cats has been leaving his calling card on them.) And so I manoeuvred the bookcase out of the room by tumbling it across the floor and positioned it at the top of the stairs.
"We started distributing the bookcases on Tuesday and yesterday we concluded the event by holding a special function for children," Rashid Al Kous, General Coordinator of KWB.
Birmingham radio station Kerrang teamed up with Ikea, which is selling raffle tickets to its customers to boost funds for the Ronald McDonald Charities House, after donating the Billy Bookcase to the children's hospital to coincide with the iconic furniture's 30th birthday.
This fantastic prize includes an executive desk, study chair, storage unit and two bookcases, so kids will be dying to get cracking on any looming projects.
A colonial style Cotton House bookcase in an antique cream finish would be easy on the eye in a bedroom.
Bookcase Says: 'Sarif's elegant writing delicately evokes the intensity of passionate love and tragic violence.'
Mueble II (Furniture II) is a bookcase displaying various domestic objects, likewise an image Palomino has used before, while Valla II (Billboard II) constitutes an innovation that he will likely end up developing (as is evidenced in the related sculpture recently presented at W-139, in Amsterdam, where Palomino currently resides): a kind of transparent billboard containing three illuminated fluorescent lights.
Whitefriars Homes moved him down the road and bought him a bookcase so he could properly store his library, which covers subjects from Shakespeare and Dickens to mathematics and physics.
When my mother and father came back to Chicago after World War II and found an apartment, the first piece of furniture my father bought for his family was a carved mahogany bookcase. As his children came along, he stacked it with clothbound editions of classic stories: Tom Sawyer, Hans Brinker, Robin Hood, Kidnapped, Tales of the Arabian Nights, books with eight or 10 delicious full-color illustrations scattered throughout.
NEW YORK: A rare 18th-century secretary bookcase has sold for a record pounds 4.9 million at Sotheby's in New York - the second highest price ever paid for a piece of US furniture at auction.
A six-shelf bookcase in the Libra line would retail from $220 to $240, and a complete wall system with bookcases, shelving and entertainment center at $1,200.
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