Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Totville, 1961. The Christmastide verse for the young is clean and scientific, but lacks the old-fashioned zing of the real thing. Poet Muriel Rukeyser's I Go Out (Harper; $2.95) makes a sort of go at it in verse about a day in the life of a city child...
WHAT'S GOT YOUR BACK UP? by Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
PICASSO'S PICASSOS, with text and photographs by David Douglas Duncan (270 pp.; Harper; $24.95). Art's most illustrious living grandee has permitted Photographer Duncan, a friend and worshiper, to photograph some 500 paintings, drawings and collages that he keeps in his villa on the French Riviera. From this treasure trove, Duncan photographed 103 in color. His text conveys a sense of intimacy, largely by the "I said to Picasso" method...
Thurber wrote, and he also drew. But Ross took no notice of the podgy dogs and lopsided little men that Thurber doodled. It was not until Harper & Brothers had paid good money for Thurber's drawings (in the E. B. White-Thurber parody, Is Sex Necessary?) that Ross gave in, and up. He paid good money for the drawings, even defended them when a cartoonist complained about "that fifth-rate artist." Ross was severe. "Third-rate," he corrected...
...LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged...