Paperback Plums
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann It becomes increasingly evident that much skill and artistry are going into the preparation of covers for pa-perbound books. "Why are the covers of 'quality'...
...1.65) THE REVIEWERS MARION A. WRIGHT is a former president of the Southern Regional Council...
...WILLIAM McCANN, who edited the paperback "Ambrose Bierce's America," makes an avocation of the world of paperbacks...
...1.95) The New Age of Franklin Roosevelt: 1932-45, by Dexter Perkins (University of Chicago Press...
...50 cents) The Negro Question, A Selection of Writings on Civil Rights in the South, by George W. Cable...
...1.25) Herman Melville, A Biography, by Leon Howard (University of California Press...
...2.45) The English Dramatic Critics, An Anthology (1660-1943), edited by James Agate (Dramabooks...
...1.95) The Literary Situation, by Malcolm Cowley (Compass...
...1.45) Axel's Castle, A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870 to 1930, by Edmund Wilson (Scribner's...
...1.95) A Short History of Russia, by R. D. Charques (Dutton...
...1.75) Call Me Ishmael, A Study of Melville, by Charles Olson (Evergreen...
...1.50) The Greek Philosophers, by Rex Warner (Mentor...
...With a new commentary by Merrill Jensen (Barnes & Noble...
...CLARENCE E. PICKETT is executive secretary emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee...
...Most of the books listed below are as diverting or sprightly, it seems to me, as their attractive covers: Basic Documents in United States Foreign Policy, by Thomas P. Brock-way (Anvil...
...1.25) Proust, A Biography, by Andre Maurois (Meridian...
...Edited by Arlin Turner (Anchor...
...1.50) U.S...
...1.95) The White Umbrella, Indian Political Thought from Manu to Gandhi, by D. Mackenzie Brown (University of California Press...
...1.35) A Short History of India and Pakistan, by T. Walter Wallbank (Mentor...
...Whatever the reasons, the results are pleasant for paperback buyers...
...1.25) Political Ideas of the American Revolution, by Randolph G. Adams...
...95 cents) Lay My Burden Down, A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B. A. Bot-kin (Phoenix...
...1.75) The American Presidency, by Harold J. Laski (Universal...
...50 cents) The Ancient Greek Historians, by J. B. Bury (Dover...
...85 cents) Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, by Robert D. Leiter (Barnes & Noble...
...Why are the covers of 'quality' paperbacks," Dwight Mac-donald asks, "so much more inventive and elegant than the dust jackets of our hard-cover books...
...50 cents) The Nature of Literature, by Herbert Read (Evergreen...
...1.45) The Literary Symbol, by William York Tindall (Indiana University Press...
...Grant and the American Military Tradition, by Bruce Catton (Universal...
...85 cents) Chinese Civilization, by Marcel Granet (Meridian...
...1.45) Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, by Christopher Dawson (Image...
...1.50) The True Believer, Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer (Mentor...
...Edited by Albert Mor-dell (Grove...
...1.25) British Economic Policy Since the War, by Andrew Shonfield (Penguin...
...JACK MENDELSOHN is the pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis...
...1.45) Literary Reviews and Essays, by Henry James...
...1.95) Autobiography of Brook Farm, edited by Henry W. Sams (Prentice-Hall, Inc...
...95 cents) In the Spirit of William James, by Ralph Barton Perry (Indiana University Press...
...1.95) The Genius of American Politics, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Phoenix...
...95 cents) Toward Freedom, The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru (Beacon...
...1.50) Constraint and Variety in American Education, by David Riesman (Anchor...
...1.75) The Perils of Prosperity: 1914-32, by William E. Leuchtenburg (University of Chicago Press...
...RICHARD SCHICKEL is a free lance writer who reviews fiction regularly for The Progressive...
Vol. 22 • November 1958 • No. 11
