Bantam books joined such items as Folk Dancing for Jewish Centers, Methods for Diagnostic Bacteriology, The Geology of the Cleveland Region and Just a Moment Please! Dedicated to All Those Persons Whose Future is Still Ahead of Them.
Why did Bantam bother with sending their first 20 books plus one more to PW for inclusion in this listing? I can't imagine it having much impact on sales. Libraries would not be interested in mass market books and bookstores would not expect to see them in PW, particularily in the "lesser trade interest" section. Another one of Bantam's mysteries. Below is a list of the books and the PW issue and the listing for The Tower of Flame [and] Jaragu of the Lost Islands.
April 5, 1941:
1 The Spanish Cape Mystery Ellery Queen
2 Little Known Facts About Well Known People Dale Carnegie
3 Your Health Questions Morris Fishbein
4 Everybody's Dream Book anon.
5 How to Make Friends Easily S. Currie
6 Everybody's Book of Jokes and Wisecracks Jerome Gregory
7 The Voice of Experience [Marion Sayle Taylor]
8 Favorite Poems Henry C. Brown (ed.)
9 Enter the G-Men William Engle
10 1000 Facts Worth Knowing [Joseph Nathan Kane]
April 12, 1941:
11 How to Win and Hold a Husband Lucille Martin
12 The World's Great Love Affairs Eleanor Packer (ed.)
13 Children's Favorite Stories E. Lewis
14 The Lone Ranger and the Secret of Thunder Mountain Fran Striker
15 Poems of Passion Ella Wheeler Wilcox
16 Grimms' Fairy Tales Emily Wayne E. Lewis
17 Private Lives of Movie Stars Eleanor Packer (ed.)
18 Love on the Run Fred MacIsaac
19 The Tower of Flame [and] Jaragu of the Lost Islands Rex Beach
20 The Story of Rabelais and Voltaire Hendrik Willem van Loon
September 6, 1941:
25 Nobody Heard the Shot Donald Barr Chidsey
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