PAPERBACK PLUMS
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann THOUGH most "quality" paperbacks now coming out continue to be re-issues of earlier hard-cover editions, an impressive number of good "originals" are appearing....
...1.35) Culture, Language and Personality, Selected Essays, by Edward Sapir, edited by David G. Mandelbaum (University of California Press...
...95 cents) Mirror for Men, A Survey of Human Behavior and Social Attitudes, by Clyde Kluckhohn (Premier...
...1.95) Letters from an American Farmer,, •by J. Hector St...
...1.45) If It Die, An Autobiograhy, by Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy (Modern Library Paperback...
...The following good titles, nearly all of them reprints, are tuua available and recommended: Thomas Jefferson, by Gilbert Chinard (Ann Arbor...
...50 cents) Segregation, The Inner Conflict in the South, by Robert Penn Warren (Modern Library Paperbacks...
...50 cents) Natural Law and the Theory of Society: 1500 to 1800, by Otto Gierke, translated and with an introduction by Ernest Barker (Beacon...
...1.35) ;: John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Universal...
...95 cents) Modern Essays, edited by Russel Nye (Scott, Foresman and Co...
...2.75) Church, State and Education, by Ernest Barker (Ann Arbor...
...1.50) The Hedgehog and the Fox, An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, by Isaiah Berlin (Mentor...
...Among the new interesting "originals" are Fred Shannon's American Farmers' Movements (Anvil, $1.25), NATO, A Twentieth Century Community of Nations, by Massimo Salvadori (Anvil, $1.25), The American Novel and Its Tradition, by Richard Chase (Anchor, 95 cents), A Guide to Contemporary French Literature: From Valery to Sartre, by Wallace Fowlie (Meridian, $1.45), and Michael Hamburger's Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature (Evergreen, $1.75...
...1.35) English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century, by A. S. Turber-ville (Galaxy...
...Joshua Whatmough (Mentor...
...John de Crevecoeur (Dutton...
...2.50) Language, A Modern Synthesis, by...
...95 cents) Mimesis, The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach, translated by Wil-lard Trask (Anchor...
...35 cents) Mohammed and Charlemagne, by Henri Pirenne (Meridian...
...2.95) William Faulkner, An Estimate of of His Contribution to the American Novel, by Mary Cooper Robb (Uni...
...50 cents...
...Perhaps they are the publishers' answer to those critics of the Paperback Era who charge that excessive emphasis on the reprinting of previously published books has somehow discouraged creative work by young writers and scholars and is an "enemy of promise...
...1.45) The Negro in American Culture, by Margaret Just Butcher, based on material left by Alain Locke (Mentor...
...versity of Pittsburg Press, $1.80) The Human Image in Dramatic Literature, by Francis Fergusson (Anchor...
Vol. 21 • December 1957 • No. 12
