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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owing somewhere around $170,000, the ten-year-old publishing house of Covici-Friede last week was taken over by its printers, J. J. Little & Ives, who alone were in for a reported $103,000. Main asset of interest to creditors was Novelist John Steinbeck, ex-laborer and reporter whose tender tale of proletarian brutality, Of Mice and Men, had netted Covici-Friede about $35,000. How much Steinbeck was considered to be worth by publishers was disclosed last week when his contract was sold for $15,000 to Viking Press, which in addition gave Publisher Pascal Covici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Valuable Property | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD: THE LIFE OF SIR HENRI DETERDING-Glyn Roberts-Covici-Friede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ruddy Old Gent | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Muriel Rukeyser - Covici, Friede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rukeyser 2 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES-Frank Waters -Covici, Friede ($3). A native son's firecracker salute to Winfield Scott Stratton, discoverer of Colorado's fabulous Cripple Creek gold mine, the ex-carpenter whose eccentricities, secretive dissipations, tightfistedness, double-dealing make lively reading, but not, in Author Waters' account, much sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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