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Museum of African Art. In addition, the Press conceived, developed and published [[underlined]] A New View From the Castle [[/underlined]], an illustrated account of the Quad's architecture and personae.

In all, more than three hundred publications were done by the University Press Division during the past year ranging from full length books for sale to the trade to catalogues accompanying exhibition openings to monographs, pamphlets, flyers, and the like, of varying size and significance.

Recordings Division

Three new albums have been released under the Smithsonian Collection label. The largest of the three was the updated and redesigned edition of [[underlined]] The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz [[/underlined]], originally issued in 1973. The other two are [[underlined]] Singers and Soloists of the Swing Bands [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Jimmie Rodgers on Record: America's Blue Yodeler. [[/underlined]]

Smithsonian Books

[[underlined]] The Smithsonian Book of Flight [[/underlined]] was distributed to the Smithsonian Associates by direct mail and to the retail book trade by Orion Books, a division of Crown Publishers. In addition, the Book-of-the-Month Club offered the 256-page volume as a dividend selection. The book has received uniformly good reviews and sales have exceeded expectations. Through December of 1987 it had returned $2,493,732 (gross) on sales of 120,251 books.

The most recent publication from Smithsonian Books, [[underlined]] Exploring the West [[/underlined]], will be marketed for the first time in January and is projected to produce gross direct mail sales of some 89,000 volumes.

Other Developments

To accommodate continued growth and improve book sales to the trade, the Press contracted with sixteen commissioned sales representatives, putting it on a par in the area of sales representation with the largest of American university presses.

Overseas sales representation is now world-wide, with specific coverage in Europe, Canada, India, Japan and Australia, and general availability to the rest of the world. Another sign of the Press's increasing activity in foreign markets is evident in recent visits by Press staff members to publishing meetings and organizations in the Far East and Western and Eastern Europe. In addition, on the home front, the Press hosted a delegation representing China's university presses, a Chinese Scientific publication group, and a delegation from Yugoslavia.

Finally, for the eighth consecutive year the Press's net gain resulted in a substantial contribution to the Institution's general trust funds. The net gain for 1987, for example, exceeded the Press budget by 117 percent.