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see-safe, a. and adv.
[f. see v. + safe a.]
(See quot. 1960.)
1926S. Unwin Truth about Publishing vi. 180 Some firms occasionally seek to protect themselves when buying books of doubtful saleability by marking their order..‘see safe’. If this condition is passed..the publisher can be called upon..to exchange any surplus copies. Ibid., If the firm has bought fifty-two copies of a new novel and marked the order ‘twenty-six see safe’, the publisher..may find himself obliged to take twenty-six back and to supply some more saleable work in their place. 1939F. D. Sanders Brit. Bk. Trade Organisation 42 The Committee recommended..that books ordered as a result of such information be treated on the ‘see safe’ principle. 1959Bookseller 24 Oct. 728/3 After say, 20 evening class students have called at a bookshop, all asking for the same title, the bookseller may be moved to telephone an order, three copies firm and three see-safe. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Book 372/2 See safe, said of books bought by a bookseller from a publisher..with the understanding that at some future date the publisher may be asked to exchange the bookseller's surplus for copies of another title. 1974I. Norrie in Mumby & Norrie Publishing & Bookselling (ed. 5) ii. 423 As the paperback boom gathered force it was increasingly difficult to sell new novels..by unknown writers... What was known as the ‘see safe’ system (titles which did not sell could be swopped for those which did) was adopted. |