When the UVic Press was just a photocopier, stapler and a paper cutter...

Browsing in the stacks of one of my local university libraries a while back,  I discovered that the "academically-correct police" there had missed a few 'bad taste' errors from the past in their pogrom to get rid of unread books.

It was a massive three volume monograph from the University of Victoria (BC) Press -- about 200,000 words in total -- dating from the mid-1980s.

That is a big work by any standards - for an academic work or a commercial novel.

Interesting to me (and shocking to many) it was just three simple staple bound (aka saddle bound) volumes with soft paper 'selfcovers'.