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SOMETHING OF VALUE (566 pp.) -Roberf Ruark - Doubleday...
DUTCH, by Theodore Bonnet (416 pp.; Doubleday...
...years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England, such first-rate modern fiction as Henry Green's Loving. Total sales of Anchor...
...Image Books (Doubleday), devoted entirely to Roman Catholic works, with total sales to date of 500,000. Bestseller of its 16 titles: Philip Hughes's Popular History of the Catholic Church...
...MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME, by Samuel Grafton (256 pp.; Doubleday; $3.75), is a fast, offbeat little yarn about a magazine reporter who is handed a money belt with $5,000 and told to sink into the New York City underworld in order to write an exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie...