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Weeks later, a bemused Hackford called King again to confess they’d been unable to locate Little Tall Island, notwithstanding the hand-drawn map in the book’s front matter.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
At the risk of reading too much into a book’s front matter, it helps to know that Groff’s sister, to whom she dedicates the book, is superstar triathlete Sarah True.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Introduction: The first section of a report after any front matter, such as an abstract or table of contents.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Paging through this front matter feels like waiting for a haunted carnival ride to start, only to be wrong-footed.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2019
Poetry of youth; selected from the Book of poetry & annotated. © on title, front matter, illus. & head notes to poems; 15Nov35; A91331.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
