PAPERBACK PLUMS
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann THE Michigan State University Press joins Cornell and the University of Chicago among publishers of quality paperbacks. One of its first soft-cover editions is...
...362 pp...
...386 pp...
...507 pp...
...1.45) Three Who Made A Revolution, a biographical history, by Bertram D. Wolfe (Beacon...
...95 cents) Force and Freedom, An Interpretation of History, by Jacob Burck-hardt (Meridian...
...191 pp...
...1.15) The Hero, by Lord Raglan (Vintage...
...192 pp...
...25 cents) The Idea of Progress, by J. B. Bury, with an introduction by Charles A. Beard (Dover...
...75 cents) Exile's Return, a literary odys-sey of the 1920's, by Malcolm Cowley (Compass...
...1.25) The Whitman Reader, edited, with an introduction, by Maxwell Geismar (Pocket Books...
...186 pp...
...95 cents) Animal Farm, by George Orwell with an introduction by C. M. Wood-house (Signet...
...760 pp...
...1-25) The Wandering Scholars, by Helen Waddell (Anchor...
...1.35) The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, edited by Holbrook Jackson (Dover...
...346 pp...
...Volume two, The Growth of the United States, 410 pp...
...200 pp...
...187 pp...
...186 pp...
...288 pp...
...372 pp...
...198 pp...
...554 pp...
...380 pp...
...50 cents) The American Democrat, by James Fenimore Cooper, with introductions by H. L. Mencken and Robert E. Spiller (Vintage, 190 pp...
...85 cents) Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle (Harvest...
...95 cents) Conservatism, From John Adams to Churchill, by Peter Viereck (Anvil...
...95 cents) A Grammar of Assent, by John Henry Newman, with an introduction by Etienne Gilson (Image...
...362 pp...
...99 pp...
...95 cents) But We Were Born Free, by Elmer Davis (Permabooks...
...The Poems of Catullus, translated and with an introduction by Horace Gregory (Grove...
...95 cents) Democracy and Dictatorship, Their Psychology and Patterns of Life, by Zevedei Barbu (Grove...
...95 cents) Mozart's Letters, edited and introduced by Eric Blom (Penguin...
...278 pp...
...Abridged, with a new postscript (Anchor...
...1.65) Stories by Frank O'Connor (Vintage...
...35 cents) Now Is the Time, by Lillian Smith (Dell...
...435 pp...
...1.25) Great Dialogues of Plato, Complete Texts of The Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno, and Symposium, translated by W. H. D. Rouse, edited by E. H. Warmington and Philip G. Rouse (Mentor...
...Penguin...
...Revised edition, abridged by the author (Anchor...
...1.25) The Brown Decades, a study of the arts in America, by Lewis Mum-ford (Dover...
...191 pp...
...275 pp...
...85 cents) Meaning in the Visual Arts, by Erwin Panofsky (Anchor...
...1.45) Philosophical Writings of C. S. Peirce, selected and edited with an introduction by Justus Buchler (Dover...
...525 pp...
...One of its first soft-cover editions is Bernard Duffey's critical study, The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters (285 pp., $1.75), an account of the spirited period of Chicago literary activity from 1890 to 1920...
...290 pp...
...214 pp...
...317 pp...
...1.95) The Well Wrought Urn, studies in the structure of poetry, by Cleanth Brooks (Harvest...
...139 pp...
...85 cents) Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain, with an introduction by F. R. Leavis (Grove...
...136 pp...
...296 pp...
...95 cents) On Native Grounds, by Alfred Kazin...
...273 pp...
...1.25) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, abridged and edited by Richard D. Heffner (Mentor...
...357 pp...
...1.25) The Age of Reason, The 17th Century Philosophers, edited by Stuart Hampshire (Mentor...
...1.95) Contemporary Africa, continent in transition, by T. Walter Wall-bank (Anvil...
...1.25) Character and Opinion in the United States, by George Santayana (Anchor...
...1.65) Pragmatism (Selections), by William James, with an introduction by Richard Weaver (Gateway...
...265 pp...
...184 pp...
...1.95) The Challenge of Man's Future, by Harrison Brown (Compass...
...126 pp...
...266 pp...
...1.45) Practical Criticism, A Study of Literary Judgment, by I. A. Richards (Harvest...
...1.25) Peasants and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, selected and with a preface by Edmund Wilson (Anchor...
...To come upon Santayana's Character and Opinion in the United States at 75 cents or Elmer Davis' But We Were Born Free at 35 cents, customers will continue to paw hopefully through stacks of gaudily jacketed trash...
...215 pp...
...1.95...
...Volume one, The Birth of the United States, 324 pp...
...166 pp...
...85 cents each volume) The First American Revolution, the american colonies on the eve of independence, by Clinton Rossiter (Harvest...
...128 pp...
...661 pp...
...1.25) Five Stories, by Willa Cather (Vintage...
...254 pp...
...1.25) A History of the United States, by Russel B. Nye and J. E. Morpurgo...
...300 pp...
...396 pp...
...50 cents...
...5C cents) Edward Bellamy, selected writings on religion and society, edited by Joseph Schiffman (Liberal Arts Press...
...35 cents) Communism and Christianity, by Martin D'Arcy (Penguin...
...322 pp...
...The profusion of paperbacks may be on the verge of becoming a plethora, but until publishers exhaust the still sizable list of good books either now out of print or too loftily priced in hard-cover editions there will be no cries of "Enoughl" from appreciative book buyers...
...275 pp...
...425 pp...
...The following good paperbacks are available now: Rendezvous with Destiny, a history of modern american reform, by Eric F. Goldman...
...Scheduled for publication soon are such interesting reprints as Dylan Thomas' Adventures in the Skin Trade (Signet...
...25 cents) and Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Signet...
...352 pp...
...50 cents) Saint Thomas Aquinas, by G. K. Chesterton (Image...
...The book was originally published in 1954 at the forbidding price of $6.50...
...65 cents) Marx and the Marxists, The Ambiguous Legacy, by Sidney Hook (Anvil...
...50 cents) The Dehumanization of Art, and other writings on art and culture, by Ortega y Gasset (Anchor...
...245 pp...
...1.25) Books That Changed the World, by Robert B. Downs (Mentor...
...75 cents) The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism, by Elie Halevy, translated by Mary Morris, with a preface by A. D. Lindsay (Beacon...
...144 pp...
...35 cents) Henry James, by F. W. Dupee Anchor...
...95 cents) Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham, with an introduction by Richard A. Cordell (Modern Library...
...25 cents) Prater Violet, by Christopher Isherwood (Modern Library...
...75 cents) Machines That Built America, by Roger Burlingame (Signet...
...1.45) Mid-Century French Poets, edited by Wallace Fowlie (Grove...
Vol. 20 • May 1956 • No. 5
