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...Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place. The stories varied from very good to sloppy, roughly in accord with their state of completion at the time of Lowry's death. Then, in 1963, the Paris Review published his novella, Lunar Caustic which he had first written in 1936. Published in hardback for the first time this year, Lunar Caustic was to be the germ for Lowry's second major novel, the Purgatorio in his trilogy, The Voyage That Never Ends, for which Under the Volcano was to be his Inferno...
SELECTED POEMS 1956-1968 by Leonard Cohen. 245 pages. Viking. $5 hardback, $1.95 paperback...
...archaeologist knows that nothing gives a better picture of how vanished civilizations lived, loved and fought than the utensils, ornaments and weapons that were left behind in successive layers of kitchen midden. For this reason alone, this hardback facsimile of an 1897 Sears Roebuck catalogue is a dazzling trove for students of Americana. It certainly is one of the happiest publishing ideas in years...
THOUGH James Reston would be a big gun in anyone's army, The Artillery of the Press does not exactly come over as a surprise barrage. Most of what is now being sold for $2.45 in hardback was shot off a year ago in the July issue of Foreign Affairs. The book adds little to Reston's earlier article, in which he presented his views on the state of the Press in succinct and felicitous prose...
...have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. In combination, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books will be better able to assure authors of bonuses for softback reprint rights, while the publishing firm will be able to get those rights without paying fat fees to its hardback competitors...