Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard University Press has granted Atheneum publishers of New York first option on the paperback reprint rights for all its new titles. Under the arrangement, a rarity in the publishing industry, the University Press expects to achieve greater continuity in its reprints...
Many of the crewmen were nowhere near so sanguine as their leaders that they would make the full 2,300-mile, 16-hour round trip. Passed from hand to hand were a flood of paperback books about British escapes from World War I German prison camps. One pilot taped a hacksaw blade to the sole of his foot; he was convinced that there would be enough shot-down U.S. flyers wandering around the Rumanian countryside "to call a general election, vote the Germans out, and make peace with the Allies...
Prendergast's letter followed a communication Riesman sent to the Post, enlarging on comments he first made in the March 27 CRIMSON. In the CRIMSON story, Riesman had vigorously defended the Papers, a paperback collection of essays on foreign policy, against charges made by Rep. William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), the Republican National Chairman...
...erotica that Esquire paid him for but decided not to print-partly on the ground of dullness. Fired later by the magazine, he expanded his article into a book, An Unhurried View of Erotica, which, he claims, sold 125,000 copies in hard cover and 150,000 in paperback. This response to what was little more than a bibliography of erotic books encouraged him to give birth to Eros. Ginzburg claims he has enough material to keep Eros going for three years, some of it collected in forays on the New York Public Library. He may decide to return most...
Anyone here really interested in theatre either saw the 1960 production or has read the now celebrated script in the Hill & Wang paperback. Furthermore, I and others have had our say about this work and the rest of Kopit's oeuvre on several occasions in these pages. So I need only say now that time has not affected my high opinion of Kopit's vicious farce...