It was suggested by the late Alfred Knopf that books should be graded like eggs, and that publishing houses should not offer as First Class what they… - Robertson Davies

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It was suggested by the late Alfred Knopf that books should be graded like eggs, and that publishing houses should not offer as First Class what they well know to be Fifth. But of course publishers cannot agree about standards for grading, and even if they could, writers would shriek like mandrakes uprooted if their work were sent into the world marked anything less than Strictly Fresh.