Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paperback Booksmith (37 a Brattle St.), open 24 hours a day, lives up to the sort of soul healing power its title implies. It has the best science fiction around, and a lot of hard-to-get books on the most far out of subjects. To top it all the staff won't bug you if you spend four hours in there one early morning making up your mind not to buy anything...
...pages. Knopf. $6.95. Paperback...
Beyond this, Rosenthal would like to see the Press expand its paperback publications. In the past the Press often did not publish even its own most popular titles, selling them instead to the big commercial companies. "My predecessors at the Press felt that paperbacks were not an integral part of university press publications," Rosenthal said. "I have exactly the opposite view. We should be publishing our own best paperbacks. Our paperback list is almost first priority for us to strengthen." Through this step, as Rosenthal wrote in his Management Plan, "our own hardcover titles will be reserved...
...first glance, this description of the espionage burglary of a government office building, contained in a yellowing 1965 paperback called On Hazardous Duty, might seem to be a rather ordinary experience in the life of Ace CIA Agent Peter Ward. As the star of a series of fictional thrillers by David St. John, Ward has had far more exciting adventures. There was the time, for instance, when he was assigned to verify the identity of the man with the scarred face who was returning from 20 years in Soviet slave labor camps to claim the throne of Spain...
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...