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• n  a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books

• Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery.
• When free from menial prison jobs in the bookbindery and pants factory, he nurtured a longtime interest in writing by taking a correspondence course in English literature and .
• Overnight, it turned his bookbindery into a big business.