Word: paperback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year saw a major shake-out in paperbacks. A few houses went out of business and carloads of trash were returned to their sponsors. The effect was salutary: fewer and better titles. At a reasonable price and on fair paper, books such as David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and De Tocqueville's Democracy in America were finding acceptance among book buyers who not long ago would have scorned paper-bounds. Astute publishing people were predicting that paperback originals at about a dollar-so far tried experimentally with a small number of books -would be the next...
...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...
...unwary drugstore customer who picks up a shiny paperback called Six Great Modern Short Novels may be disconcerted to discover that it actually contains six great modern short novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list...
Sales of the novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's books have earned him an estimated $1,000,000 (exclusive of movie and magazine rights). The really intriguing item in this success story is that Yerby is a Negro - a Negro whose stuff is just as terrible (and entertaining) as any white author...
...afternoon were on, and studying began to seem inevitable. The roommates were all riffling through huge dusty books, and even the telephone looked preoccupied. As I glumly eyed my collection of paperback summaries and other people's notes on political theory, the one roommate for whom I have hope leaped to his feet. He announced to the scandalized grinds that he was off to photograph Debbie Reynolds, movie star and all that. Entranced, I slipped into an Oxford button-down, seized my sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled...