PAPERBACK PLUMS

McCann, William

Paperback Plums by WILLIAM McCANN THE FIRST paperback in America, says an authority at Detroit's Wayne State University, was The Bay Psalm Book, published in 1640. Wayne has joined such university...

...304 pp...
...1) Against the Grain, by J. K. Huys-mans (Modern Library Paperback...
...184 pp...
...1.65) The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800...
...324 pp...
...1.25) The Philosophy of Hegel, A systematic Exposition, by W. T. Stace (Dover...
...1.45) The British Empire-Commonwealth, A Study in Political Evolution, by R. G. Trotter (Henry Holt, 131 pp...
...310 pp...
...35 cents) The Age of Ideology, The 19th Century Philosophers, edited by Henry D. Aiken (Mentor...
...1.95) What is Life?, And Other Scientific Essays, by Erwin Schrodinger (Anchor...
...222 pp...
...Wayne has joined such university presses as Cornell, Washington, Chicago, Oxford, and California in publishing paperbound books...
...192 pp...
...1.35) E. M. Forster, by Lionel Trilling (New Directions...
...and Henry Adams (Great Seal, 193 pp...
...340 pp...
...1.35) Malone Dies, by Samuel Beckett (Evergreen...
...1.25) Vision and Design, by Roger Fry (Meridian...
...75 cents) The Sea and the Jungle, by H. M. Tomlinson (Modern Library Paperback...
...1.45) Main-Travelled Roads, Six Mississippi Valley Stories, by Hamlin Garland (Rinehart...
...35 cents) Threepenny Novel, by Bertolt Brecht (Grove...
...352 pp...
...431 pp...
...270 pp...
...185 pp...
...1.35) The Ten Commandments, by A. Powell Davies (Signet...
...273 pp...
...1.75) Three Tragedies of Garcia Lorca, (Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba...
...1.75) The Creation of the Universe, by George Gamow (Compass...
...212 pp $1.25) The Path to Rome, by Hilaire Bel-loc (Image...
...95 cents) A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor (Signet...
...It is not likely, however, that the following works have been previously procurable at prices lower than shown here: The Brandeis Reader, edited by Ervin Pollack (Docket Series...
...251 pp...
...50 cents) Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, The Basic Writings of Existentialism, edited and introduced by Walter Kaufmann (Meridian...
...256 pp...
...1.45) Famous Ghost Stories, compiled with an introductory note by Bennett Cerf (Modern Library Paperbacks...
...1.35) The Anatomy of Revolution, by Crane Brinton (Vintage...
...175 pp...
...319 pp...
...147 pp...
...207 pp...
...300 pp...
...50 cents) The Portable Matthew Arnold, edited by Lionel Trilling (Viking...
...396 pp...
...The Birth of the Republic: 1763-89, by Edmund S. Morgan (University of Chicago Press...
...192 pp...
...669 pp...
...177 pp...
...190 pp...
...1.75...
...1.25) The Biosocial Nature of Man, by Ashley Montagu (Evergreen...
...95 cents) The Essence of Laughter and Other Essays, Journals, and Letters, by Charles Baudelaire, edited by Peter Quennell (Meridian...
...1.25) The American Heritage Reader, with introductory note by Bruce Cat-ton (Dell...
...95 cents) Zen Buddhism, Selected Writings of D. T. Susuki, edited by William Barrett (Anchor...
...167 pp...
...1.25) The Revolution in Physics, by Louis de Broglie (Noonday...
...244 pp...
...1.98) Roman Society, From Nero to Marcus Aurelius, by Samuel Dill (Meridian...
...1.45) The Arabs, A Short History, by Philip K. Hitti (Gateway...
...251 pp-$1.35) A Popular History of Music, From Gregorian Chant to Jazz, by Carter Harman (Dell...
...1.45) The Making of Europe, An Introduction to the History of European Unity, by Christopher Dawson (Meridian...
...A Gathering of Fugitives, by Lionel Trilling (Beacon...
...160 pp...
...1.25) Basic Documents in American History, by Richard B. Morris (Anvil...
...95 cents) White Jacket, by Herman Melville (Evergreen...
...160 pp...
...190 pp...
...85 cents) Freud or Jung?, by Edward Glover (Meridian...
...376 pp...
...139 pp...
...123 pp...
...1.40) What Is Theatre?, by Eric Bentley (Beacon...
...50 cents) Chapters of Erie, by C. F. Adams, Jr...
...120 pp...
...283 pp...
...The Formation of the Modern Scientific Attitude, by A. R. Hall (Beacon...
...1.25) Prospects for Conservatives, by Russell Kirk (Gateway...
...95 cents) The Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler (Beacon...
...294 pp...
...95 cents) Ethics, by P. H. Nowell-Smith (Penguin...
...639 pp...
...1.45) Irish Stories and Tales, edited by Devin A. Garrity (The Pocket Library...
...1.25) Science and Hypothesis, by Henri Poincare, with a preface by J. Lar-mor (Dover...
...50 cents) The Age of Adventure, The Renaissance Philosophers, edited by Giorgio de Santillana (Mentor...
...35 cents) The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton, edited by Richard B. Morris (Pocket Library...
...One of its first titles is Vera and Stephen Sarasohn's Political Party Patterns in Michigan ($1.75...
...332 pp...
...277 pp...
...134 pp...
...The feverish activity in paperback production is amusingly pointed up by Anthony Boucher's discovery that Berton Roueche's The Last Enemy, first published by Dell a year ago as a 35-cent original, has recently been reprinted by Grove as a "quality" paperback at $1.25...
...85 cents) Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Mentor...
...256 pp...
...283 pp...
...The Industrial Revolution, by Arnold Toynbee (Beacon...
...451 pp...
...95 cents) The Talmud of Jerusalem, with a preface by Dagobert D. Runes (Wisdom Library...
...361 pp...
...390 pp...
...35 cents) The Golden Apples, by Eudora Welty (Harvest...
...253 pp...
...302 pp...
...526 pp...
...35 cents) The Forms of Music, by Donald Frrmcis Tovey, with a preface by Hubert J. Foss (Meridian...
...274 pp...
...95 cents) Selected Essays from the Tatler and the Spectator, by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, edited by Warren L. Fleischauer (Gateway...
...95 cents) Russia and America, Dangers and Prospects, by Henry L. Roberts (Mentor...
...287 pp...
...230 pp...
...1.75) Pan, by Knut Hamsun (Noonday...
...263 pp...
...1.25...
...50 cents) French Architecture, by Pierre Lavedan (Penguin...
...New Directions...
...1.25) Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose, by Leo Stein (Modern Library Paperback...

Vol. 21 • August 1957 • No. 8


 
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