OTP
18th/19th Centuries
| b * |
Tobias G. Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random. London, 1748. Vs. reprints including Everyman #790. |
| b * |
John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill. London, 1749. Vs. European reprints including Paris, Obelisk, 1950 & Olympia, 1955. |
| c | Johann C. F. von Schiller, Don Carlos (D). London, 1795. Vs. reprints. |
| f | Théophile Gautier, Mlle. de Maupin. Vs. translations and editions. Pb reprint: Pyramid G161. |
| c | Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam (P) (esp. 13, 18, 19, 127, 128). London, 1850. Many reprints (many incomplete). |
| c * |
Walt. Whitman, The Leaves of Grass (P) (esp. Calamus section). NY, 1856. Innumerable reprints incl. Pb reprint: Mentor MS117. |
| c | Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Sonnets. Translated by John Addington Symonds. London, 1878. Vs. reprints. |
| c | George Taylor (Adolf Hausrath), Antinous: A Romance of Ancient Rome. NY, Gottsberger, 1882. (Reprinted 1884 under author’s real name). |
| c | Adolf von Willbrandt, Fridolin’s Mystical Marriage. NY, Gottsberger, 1884. (Primary?) |
| c | Christopher Carr (Arthur C. Benson), Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton. London, 1886. Subsequently reprinted under author’s real name in London and NY, Kennerly, 1907. |
| c | Edward Irenaeus Stevenson, White Cockades. NY, Scribner’s, 1887. |
| c | John Addington Symonds, The Key of Blue (P). London, c.1887. |
| Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. London, 1885-1888, 17 vols. Various reprints. Esp. relevant: | |
| d | 1) Noureddin Ali of Cairo and his son Bedreddin Hassan. I, 195 (N20/4) |
| d | 2) Kemerezzeman and Budour. v. III, 300-6 (N216) |
| d | 3) Ali Shar and Zummurud. IV, 226 (N326) |
| b | 4) Abu Nowas and the Three Boys. V, 64 (N382). (Reprint Cory, 1953 P) |
| d | 5) Man’s Dispute with the Learned Woman. V, 154-6 |
| c | Hall Caine, The Deemster. London, 1888, Many reprints. |
| a ** |
Count Donatien A. F. de Sade, Justine (translation of 2-vol, 1791 edition). Paris, Lisieux, 1889. New edition: Paris, Olympia, 1954 (PC). Abridged & expurgated edition by Julian Press, Newark, 1931 (& n.p., c. 1935) with PC reprint c.1955, NY? (labelled “Paris, Collection Ballet des Muses”). (The 4-volume 1796 edition has apparently never been translated). |
| c | Edward Irenaeus Stevenson, Left To Themselves. NY, Hunt and Eaton; Cincinnatti, Cranston & Stowe, 1891. |
| c | Howard O. Sturgis, Tim. London & NY, Macmillan, 1891. |
| c | Robert S. Hichens, The Green Carnation. NY, Kennerly, 1894. Reprints by Appleton, NY, 1895 and by Argus, Chicago, 1929. |
| c | Lord Alfred Douglas, When The King Comes He Is Welcome (Poetic D)., in “Poems”. Paris, Mercure de France, 1896. Reprinted in “Lyrics”, London, Rich and Cowan, 1935. (See also Primary, 1896) |
| c * |
Henry B. Fuller, At St. Judas’ (1-Act Poetic Drama) in “Puppet Show” NY, Century, 1896. |
| c | Ashley W. Clarke, Jaspar Tristram. London, Heinemann, 1899. |
1901-1924
| c | Frederick Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe), In His Own Image. London and NY, Lane, 1901. Reprinted London, Lane, 1924; NY, Knopf, 1925. NB: Of the 30 Toto stories (SS) herein complete, 7 were previously published (1898) by Lane in “Stories Toto Told Me” and 6 in The Yellow Book. |
| c * |
Oscar Wilde, Portrait of Mr. W. H. (SS). Portland, Maine, Mosher, 1901. Reprinted in several Collected Works editions. |
| c | Edward Carpenter, Towards Democracy (P). London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1883-1902. Vs. reprints including Kennerly, NY, 1922. (“Who Shall Command the Heart” section corresponds to Whitman’s “Calamus” part.) |
| c ** |
Edward Carpenter, Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship (P et al.). London, Allen & Unwin, 1902. Vs. reprints including Boston, Goodspeed, 1902 and NY, Boni, 1935. |
| c | Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian VIIth. London, Chatto & Windus, 1902 & 1925. NY, Knopf 1928 et seq. |
| c | Paul Bourget, A Love Crime. NY, Société des Beaux-Arts, 1905. Pb Reprint: Ace D16 |
| c | Frederick Rolfe, Don Tarquinio. London, Chatto & Windus, 1905, 1929 and 1957. NY, Knopf, 1924. |
| c | Forrest Reid, The Garden God. London, Nutt, 1906. |
| c | H. A. Vachell, The Hill—A Romance of Friendship. NY, Dodd Mead, 1906. |
| c | Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe in Paris. NY, Holt, 1911. Reprint in Modern Library G38. Pb condensation (complete Christophe): PB631. |
| c | Edward I. Stevenson, Weed and Flowers (SS) and Aquae Multae Non (SS) in “Her Enemy, Some Friends and Other Personages: Stories and Studies Mostly of Human Hearts”. Florence, Obsner, 1913 (Ltd.; 250 copies). |
| c | D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow. NY, Huebsch, 1916. Vs. reprints incl. Pb reprints: Avon 1028 & G2028. |
| c | D. H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer (SS). NY, Huebsch, 1917. Vs. reprints incl. Cory, P1953. |
| f | Sherwood Anderson, Hands (SS) in “Winesburg, Ohio”. NY, Huebsch, 1919. Reprint by Cory (P, 1953) and Pb: Signet 585 & 1304. |
| d | Henry B. Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year. Chicago, Alderbrink, 1919. |
| d * |
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth. NY, Doran, 1920. |
| d * |
Joris Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain. NY, Lieber & Lewis, 1922; Boni, 1924. Modern Library (OP) #30; MLP #23 (PC). |
| c | D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love. NY, Seltzer, 1922. Pb: Avon #1021. |
| d | D. H. Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod. NY, Seltzer, 1922. Pb: Avon #1025. |
| f | Sherwood Anderson, The Man Who Became A Woman (SS) in “Horses and Men”. NY, Huebsch, 1923. In “Portable Anderson”. NY, Viking, 1949. |
| c | Hermann Hesse, Demian. NY, Boni & Liveright, 1923. NY, Holt, 1948. |
| d * |
Arnold Lunn, Scrap of Paper (SS) in “Georgian Stories”, 1922. NY, Putnam’s, 1923. |
| d | Carl van Vechten, Blind Bow Boy. NY, Knopf, 1923. |
| d | Joris K. Huysmans, La Bas. NY, Boni, 1924 and University, 1958. Pb reprint: “Paris” (NY?), “Le Ballet des Muses” (PC). |
1925-1931
| b * |
Cyril Hume, Cruel Fellowship. NY, Doran, 1925. |
| d | Panait Istrati, Kyra Kyralina. NY, Knopf, 1926. |
| b * |
E. E. Cummings, Him (P). NY, Liveright, 1927. |
| d | Charlotte Haldane, Man’s World. NY, Doran, 1927. |
| c | Rosamund Lehmann, Dusty Answer. NY, Holt, 1927; Reynal & Hitchcock, n.d. |
| a ** |
Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire. NY, Doran, 1927. |
| d * |
Lord Stites (Donald Fairchild), Intimate Acrobatics. NY, MacBride, ’27. |
| e | Glenway Westcott, The Grandmothers. NY, Harper’s, 1927. Bantam #69. |
| a * |
Mary Butts, Armed with Madness. NY, Boni, 1928. |
| c * |
Lester Cohen, Oscar Wilde (D). NY, Boni, 1928. |
| d * |
Compton Mackenzie, Extraordinary Women. NY, Macy-Masius, 1928. |
| b/c ** |
Ernest Milton, To Kiss the Crocodile. NY, Harper’s, 1928. |
| a * |
Naomi Mitchison, Krypteia (SS) in “Black Sparta: Greek Stories”. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1928. (See also Primary, 1928). |
| a * |
Charles Brackett, American Colony. NY, Boni & Liveright, 1929. |
| d | Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf. NY, Holt, 1929 & 1947. NY, Ungar, 1957. |
| c * |
Jean Cocteau, Les Enfantes Terribles. Tr. by Samuel Putnam, NY, Brewer & Warren, 1930. New translation by Rosamund Lehmann: NY, New Directions, 1957. |
| a * |
James Hanley, Prisoner Before Death (SS). London, privately printed, ’30. |
| c/d | Carl Van Vechten, Parties. NY, Knopf, 1930. |
| c/d | Keith Winter, Other Man’s Saucer. NY, Doubleday, 1930. |
| d | Arnold Zweig, Claudia. NY, Viking, 1930. |
| c | E. F. Benson, The Inheritor. NY, Doubleday, 1931. |
| d * |
Clemence Dane, Broome Stages. NY, Doubleday, 1931. |
| c * |
George Davis, The Opening of a Door. NY, Harper’s, 1931. |
| a ** |
Robert Graves, And Still It Goes On (D) in “And Still It Goes On” (Miscellany of Graves’ works). NY, Cape and Smith, 1931. |
| a ** |
Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1931. (London, Cape, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, continuous reprints). |
| c | Forrest Reid, Uncle Stephen, London, Faber, 1931. Reprinted as part of trilogy “Tom Barber” by Pantheon, NY, 1955. |
| Count D. A. F. de Sade, Justine. 1931. See 1889. |
1932-1936
| a * |
Mary Butts, The Death of Felicity Taverner. London, Wighart, 1932. |
| a * |
Myron Brinig, This Man is my Brother. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. |
| e | Carroll & Garrett Graham, Kings Back to Back. NY, Vanguard, 1932. |
| d | James Hanley, Boy. NY, Knopf, 1932. |
| c * |
Hermann Hesse, Death and the Lover. NY, Dodd, 1932. Reprinted as “Goldmund” by Owen and by Vision (jointly), London, 1959. |
| a * |
Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. NY, McBride, 1932. Reprinted in de luxe, signed, limited (1000 copies) edition by Arco, London, 1955. |
| d * |
J. B. Priestley, Dangerous Corner (D). NY, French, 1932. Mod. Lib. G16. |
| a ** |
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. NY, Boni, 1922-32. Vs. reprints incl. Modern Library. See also Primary, 1927. |
| c | Patrick Carleton, Desirable Young Men. NY, Dutton, 1933. |
| d | William March, Company K. NY, Smith & Haas, 1933. Pb reprint: Lion #111. |
| c * |
Mordaunt Shairp, Green Bay Tree (D). London, Allen & Unwin, 1933. Reprinted in Modern Library G16. |
| b * |
E. F. Benson, Raven’s Brood. NY, Doubleday, 1934. |
| a ** |
Edgar Calmer, Beyond the Street. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1934. |
| d | L. E. Celine, Journey to the End of Night. Boston, Little Brown, ’34. Pb reprint: Avon G1014. |
| b * |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night. NY, Scribner’s, 1934. Pb reprint: Bantam A867. |
| d | Carroll Graham, Border Town. NY, Vanguard, 1934. Pb reprint: Dell 625. |
| c * |
Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. London, Cassell, 1934. Reprinted by New Directions, NY, 1953. |
| e | John Peale Bishop, Act of Darkness. NY, Scribner’s, 1935. |
| b * |
Robert Briffault, Europa. NY, Scribner’s, 1935. Abrgd. Pb: Avon 272. (see 1937OTP for sequel). |
| Lord Alfred Douglas, When the King Comes He Is Welcome (Poetic D) in “Lyrics”. 1935. See OTP 1896. | |
| d | Frederic Prokosch, The Asiatics. NY, Harper, 1935. Pb: ASE 764. |
| d * |
Cyril Connolly, Rock Pool. NY, Scribner’s, 1936. Reprint in “New Directions Classics” by New Directions, NY, 1949. |
| c * |
John Evans, Shadows Flying. NY, Knopf, 1936. (Primary?) Pb reprint as “Love in the Shadows”, Avon T104. |
| a * |
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza. NY, Harper, 1936. Bantam F1233 & F1622. |
| c | Stephen Spender, By the Lake (SS) in “The Burning Cactus”. NY, Random, 1936. See also Primary, 1936. |
| d | Olaf Stapledon, Odd John. NY, Dutton, 1936. Viking Science Fiction Portable, c. 1954. |
| c/d * |
Keith Winter, Impassioned Pygmies. NY, Doubleday, 1936. |
1937-1941
| b | Djuna Barnes, Nightwood. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1937. Reprinted by New Directions in “New Classics” series, NY, c. 1950. |
| d | Robert Briffault, Europa in Limbo. NY, Scribner’s, 1937. (See 1935). |
| a/f ** |
James M. Cain, Serenade. NY, Scribner’s, 1937. (Primary?) Pb reprints: Signet 621; Signet 1153; Penguin 1153. |
| a ** |
Noel Langley, So Unlike the English. NY, Morrow, 1937. (Previous, original British title: “There’s a Porpoise Close Behind Us”). |
| b ** |
Eugene O’Brien, He Swung and He Missed. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937. Pb reprint: Avon 508. |
| d | Frederic Prokosch, Seven Who Fled. NY, Harper, 1937. |
| d ** |
Esmond Quinterley, Ismay Somer. “Paris” (London), Fortune, 1937. |
| c | Reginald Underwood, Hidden Lights (Fictionalized Autobio). London, Fortune, ’37. |
| a ** |
Elliot Paul, Concert Pitch. NY, Random, 1938. (Primary?) |
| d | Philip Barry, Here Come the Clowns (D). NY, Coward-McCann, 1939. |
| d * |
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep. NY, Knopf, 1939. Pb: PB 696 & 2696. |
| d | Noël Coward, What Mad Pursuit (SS) in “To Step Aside”. NY, Doubleday 1939. Reprint by Sun Dial. Pb reprint: Dell D80. (See Primary, 1939). |
| d | Arthur Koestler, The Gladiators. NY, MacMillan, 1939. Pb: Graphic G213. |
| d | Roger Martin du Gard, The Thibaults. NY, Viking, 1939. |
| d | Frederic Prokosch, Night of the Poor. NY, Harper, 1939. |
| c * |
Mary Renault, Promise of Love. NY, Morrow, 1939. Pb: Dell 298. (original British title: Purposes of Love. Br. Pb: Ace H180) |
| b * |
Henry Bellaman, Kings Row. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1940. Pb: PB C2. |
| d | Robert Henriques, No Arms No Armour. NY, Farrar-Rinehart, 1940. |
| e | Rayner Heppenstall, The Blaze of Noon. Chicago, Alliance, 1940. Pb reprint: Berkley G27. |
| f | Eugene O’Brien, One-Way Ticket. NY, Doubleday, 1940. Pb: Pennant P50. |
| c&f * |
Benjamin Subercaseaux, The Salt Sea (SS) in “From West to East”. NY, Putnam’s, 1940. Pb reprint in “Spanish Stories”, Pocket Library 40. |
| c&d | Gerald Brown, Murder on Beacon Hill. NY, Phoenix, 1941. |
| c * |
Marcus Goodrich, Delilah. NY, Rinehart, 1941. Pb: AFE T3; Bantam A1088. |
| c * |
Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Reprinted in McCullers Omnibus “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe” by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1951. Pb reprint: Bantam A1156. |
| d | Frederic Prokosch, The Skies of Europe. NY, Harper, 1941. |
1942-1946
| a *** |
Fitzroy Davis, Quicksilver. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1942. |
| d | Paul Goodman, The Grand Piano. San Francisco, Colt, 1942. |
| a ** |
Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags. Boston, Little Brown, 1942. British Pb reprint: Br. Penguin 423. |
| d | Matthew Head (John E. Canaday), The Smell of Money. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1943. Pb reprint: Dell 219. |
| e | Frederic Prokosch, The Conspirators. NY, Harper, 1943. |
| d | Carlton Brown, Brainstorm. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. |
| a * |
Rose Franken, Outrageous Fortune (D). NY, French, 1944. |
| c ** |
Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. Pb reprint: Signet 683; Berkley G1. |
| a ** |
Kenneth Millar, The Dark Tunnel. NY, Dodd Mead, 1944. Pb: Lion 48. Pb reprint as “I Die Slowly”, Lion LL52. |
| b * |
Richard Brooks, The Brick Foxhole. NY, Harper, 1945. Reprint by Sun Dial. |
| c | Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet. NY, Random, 1945. MLP19 (PC). |
| c ** |
William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf. NY, Harper, 1945. (Primary?) Reprints: Cleveland, World Forum books; NY, Book-Find Club together with “The Dark Legend” by Dr. Frederick Wertham; Vintage R78 (PC). |
| b | Frederic Prokosch, Age of Thunder. NY, Harper, 1945. |
| a ** |
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited. Boston, Little Brown, 1945. Pb reprints: Dell D151; Dell 163. |
| c&d | Helen Eustis, The Horizontal Man. NY, Harper, 1946. Pb: PB 557. |
| e | Paul Goodman, The State of Nature. NY, Vanguard, 1946. |
| a * |
Alfred Hayes, All Thy Conquests. NY, Crown, 1946; Howell Soskin ’46. Pb reprints: Lion 40; Lion LL68; Pyramid G365. |
| a ** |
Adam de Hegedus (later “Rodney Garland”), Rehearsal under the Moon. London, Nicolson and Watson, 1946. |
| c&d | Christopher Isherwood, The Memorial. NY, New Directions, 1946. |
| a ** |
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories. NY, New Directions, 1946. Pb reprints: “Goodbye to Berlin” portion in Signet 937 & Signet S1252; “The Last of Mr. Norris” portion: Avon 448; Berkley G153. See Cory (Primary, 1953) for “On Ruegen Island” (chapter as SS). |
| d | Hansford Martin, Send Them Summer. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1946. Pb: Avon 88. AT |
| e | Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Reprinted in “Ballad of the Sade Cafe” Omnibus, 1951. |
| b ** |
Frederic Prokosch, The Idols of the Cave. NY, Doubleday, 1946. |
| c ** |
Gladys Schmitt, David the King. NY, Dial, 1946. |
| c | Denton Welch, In Youth is Pleasure. NY, Fischer, 1946. |
| c * |
Denton Welch, When I was Thirteen (SS) in “Horizon Stories” ed. by Cyril Connolly. NY, Vanguard, 1946. Reprinted by Cory (Primary, ’53). |
1947-1948
| d * |
Vance Bourjaily, The End of my Life. NY, Scribner’s, 1947. Pb reprint: Bantam 1047. |
| a ** |
Richard Erickson, Confessional (SS) in “Cross-Section 1947”. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1947. (Primary?) |
| a * |
William Douglas Now Barrabas (D). London, Longmans Green, 1947. |
| c&d | John Kelly, All Souls’ Night. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1947. |
| d * |
Willard Motley, Knock on Any Door. NY, Appleton-Century, 1947. Pb reprints: Signet D802; Signet S1576. |
| a * |
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason. NY, Knopf, 1947. |
| a * |
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Reprieve. NY, Knopf, 1947. (See OTP, 1951 for third of this trilogy). |
| b * |
Gore Vidal, In A Yellow Wood. NY, Dutton, 1947. |
| e * |
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (D). NY, New Directions 1947. Pb reprint: Signet: 917. |
| a ** |
Calder Willingham, End as a Man. NY, Vanguard, 1947. Pb reprints: Avon AT445 and Signet D1386. Abridged in Avon 240. |
| c&d * |
Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms. NY, Random, 1948. (Primary?) Pb reprint: Signet 700. PC reprint: MLP14. |
| a ** |
Charles Gorham, The Future Mr. Dolan. NY, Dial, 1948. Pb reprints: Signet 752 (abridged); Pyramid G197 (abridged) |
| a * |
Charles Gorham, The Gilded Hearse. NY, Creative Age, 1948. Pb reprints: Signet 714; as “Make Me an Offer”, Berkley G199. |
| c | Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead. NY, Rinehart, 1948. Pb reprints: Signet D837; Signet T1549. |
| d | Frederic Prokosch, Storm and Echo. NY, Doubleday, 1948. |
| a ** |
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Childhood of a Leader (SS) in “The Wall”. NY, New Directions, 1948 (Limited Edition) and reprinted by New Directions as “Intimacy” c. 1955. Pb reprints (as “Intimacy”): Avon AT69; Berkley G30; Berkley G105. |
| c&d * |
Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better. NY, Rinehart, 1948. Pb reprint: Dell D104. |
| ac&d * |
A. M. P. Stratton, Lord Love Us. NY, Scribner’s, 1948. |
| d * |
Jon Edgar Webb, Four Steps to the Wall. NY, Dial, 1948. Pb reprint: Bantam 1179. |
| c * |
Denton Welch, The Barn (SS) in “Brave and Cruel”. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1948. |
1949-1950
| f | Marie Baumer, The Seeker and the Sought. NY, Scribner’s, 1949. |
| a ** |
Stuart Benton (George Sylvester Viereck), All Things Human. NY, Sheridan, 1949. Reprinted by Sheridan under Viereck’s own name ’55. |
| a ** |
Marc Brandel, The Barriers Between. NY, Dial, 1949. |
| b ** |
John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book. NY, Harper, 1949. |
| e | André Gide, Theseus. NY, New Directions, 1949 (Limited Edition). Reprinted in “Two Legends”, NY, Knopf, 1955. |
| c | John Kelly, Alexander’s Feast. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1949. |
| c/d * |
Robin Maugham, Line on Ginger. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1949. Pb: Avon 333. |
| a ** |
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate. NY, Random, 1949. Br. Pb. reprint: Br. Penguin 984. |
| a *** |
Fritz Peters, The World Next Door. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1949. (Primary?) Pb reprint: Signet 813 (drastically revised and abridged). |
| d * |
Gore Vidal, The Season of Comfort. NY, Dutton, 1949. |
| e | John F. Bardin, The Burning Glass. NY, Dutton, 1950. |
| d * |
Paul Bowles, The Delicate Prey (SS) in “The Delicate Prey”. NY, Random, 1950. Pb: Signet 919 & 1296. See also Primary, 1950. |
| c&f | Frederick Buechner, A Long Day’s Dying. NY, Knopf, 1950. |
| c&f * |
A. J. Cronin, The Spanish Gardener. Boston, Little Brown, 1950. Pb reprint: Bantam A1719. |
| d | Diana Gaines, Tasker Martin. NY, Random, 1950. Pb: Bantam 880. |
| b * |
Paul Goodman, The Dead of Spring. Glen Gardner, NJ, Libertarian, ’50. |
| b ** |
William Goyen, The House of Breath. NY, Random House, 1950. |
| d * |
Theodora Keogh, The Double Door. NY, Creative Age, 1950. Pb reprint: Signet 958. |
| b ** |
Speed Lamkin, Tiger in the Garden. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Pb reprint: Signet 845. |
| a *** |
Eugene McCown, The Siege of Innocence. NY, Doubleday, 1950. (Primary?) |
| b&f * |
Alberto Moravia, Agostino (SN) in “Two Adolescents”. NY, Farrar Straus, 1950. Pb reprint: Signet 960; Signet 1372. |
| a ** |
Edward Ronns, The State Department Murders. PbO: Fawcett Gold Medal #?, 1950; reprinted 1957 as #634. |
| a * |
Angus Wilson, Et Dona Ferentes (SS) in “The Wrong Set”. NY, Morrow, 1950. |
1951
| c | Chandler Brossard, Who Walk in Darkness. NY, New Directions, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet 974. |
| b ** |
John Cornish, The Provincials. NY, Sloane, 1951. |
| b * |
Julien Green, Moira. NY, MacMillan, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet 998. |
| b * |
James Jones, From Here to Eternity. NY, Scribner’s, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet T1075. |
| a *** |
Norah Lofts, The Lute Player. NY, Doubleday, 1951. (Primary?) Pb reprint: Bantam A1137. |
| b * |
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, Little, Brown, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet 1001. |
| a ** |
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Troubled Sleep. NY, Knopf, 1951. (see OTP, 1947 for previous two works of this trilogy). |
| d | Thurston Scott, Cure It With Honey. NY, Harper, 1951. Pb reprint: as “I’ll Get Mine”, Popular 452 and Popular G287. |
| b | John Sherwood, Mr. Blessington’s Imperialist Plot. NY, Doubleday, ’51. |
| a ** |
George Sklar, Promising Young Men. NY, Crown, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet 924. |
| a ** |
Russell Thacher, The Captain. NY, MacMillan, 1951. Pb reprint: Pocket Book 883. |
| c | Denton Welch, A Fragment of a Life Story (SS) |
| c | Denton Welch, A Party (SS) |
| c | Denton Welch, A Picture in the Snow (SS) |
| c | Denton Welch, A Novel Fragment (SS) |
| (all) in “A Last Sheaf”. London, Lehmann, 1951. | |
| a * |
Calder Willingham, Reach to the Stars. NY, Vanguard, 1951. Pb reprint: Signet 987 (abridged). |
| d | Angus Wilson, Such Darling Dodos (SS) in “Such Darling Dodos”. NY, Morrow, 1951. |
1952
| d | Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down. NY, Random, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet 1002. |
| a ** |
John Horne Burns, A Cry of Children. NY, Harper, 1952. Pb reprints: Bantam 1147; Popular G194. |
| b * |
Albert Cossery, The Lazy Ones. NY, New Directions, 1952. |
| a ** |
Lester Dent, Cry at Dusk. PbO: Fawcett Gold Medal #247, 1952. |
| c | Jack Dunphy, Friends and Vague Lovers. NY, Farrar Straus, 1952. |
| c&d | Ernest Frost, The Lighted Cities. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1952. |
| c * |
André Gide, Saul (D) in “My Theater”. NY, Knopf, 1952. |
| b * |
Harry Grey, The Hoods. NY, Crown, 1952. Pb: Signet 999; Signet D1575. |
| c * |
James N. Hall, The Forgotten One (SS) in “The Forgotten One and other stories”, Boston, Little, Brown, 1952. |
| e | Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi. NY, Holt, 1952. |
| a *** |
Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone. NY, Coward-McCann, 1952. |
| bdf ** |
David Karp, The Brotherhood of Velvet. PbO: Lion 105, 1952. |
| a ** |
Helen A. Mahler, Empress of Byzantium. NY, Coward-McCann, 1952. Pb reprint: Bantam 1157. |
| b ** |
Curzio Malaparte, The Skin. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet 1098. |
| b * |
Alberto Moravia, The Conformist. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet 1071. |
| d * |
Vasco Pratolini, The Naked Streets. NY, Wyn, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet 1061. |
| d | Gladys Schmitt, Confessors of the Name. NY, Dial, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet D1068. |
| b | John Sherwood, Ambush for Anatol. NY, Doubleday, 1952. |
| a ** |
Desmond Stewart, Leopard in the Grass. NY, Farrar Straus, 1952. Pb reprint: Signet 997. |
| a *** |
Gore Vidal (as “Edgar Box”), Death in the Fifth Position. NY, Dutton, 1952. Pb reprints: Signet 1036; Signet 1475. |
| a *** |
George Sylvester Viereck, Men into Beasts. PbO: Fawcett Gold Medal #260, 1952. Reprint as #552, 1956. |
| b * |
Hugh Wheeler, The Crippled Muse. NY, Rinehart, 1952. |
1953
| c | Louis Auchincloss, Gemlike Flame (SS) in PbO: Mentor New World Writing No, 3, MS85, 1953. Reprinted in “The Romantic Egoists” by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954. |
| a ** |
Vicki Baum, The Mustard Seed. NY, Dial, 1953. Pb reprint: Pyramid G328 (drastically abridged). |
| d | Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March. NY, Viking, 1953. Pb reprint: Popular SP2. |
| b ** |
Robert O. Bowen, Bamboo. NY, Knopf, 1953. Pb reprint: Signet 1201. |
| b * |
Chandler Brossard, The Bold Saboteurs. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1953. Pb reprint: Dell D137. |
| c | Bryher, The Players’ Boy. NY, Pantheon, 1953. |
| d | José Suarez Carreno, The Final Hours. NY, Knopf, 1953. Pb reprint: Signet 1191. |
| b * |
Camilo José Cela, The Hive. NY, Farrar Straus, 1953. Pb reprint: Signet 1157. |
| a * |
Martin Dibner, The Deep Six. NY, Doubleday, 1953. Pb reprint: Permabook M4028. |
| a ** |
Oakley M. Hall, Corpus of Joe Bailey. NY, Viking, 1953. Pb reprint: Permabook M4006. |
| d * |
Maude Hutchins, My Hero. NY, New Directions, 1953. |
| a * |
Marcel Jouhandeau, Marcel and Elise. NY, Pantheon, 1953. |
| a * |
Raffaele La Capria, A Day of Impatience. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1953. Pb reprint: as “First Affair”, Signet 1223. |
| b * |
Noel Langley, The Rift in the Lute. NY, Coward-McCann, 1953. Pb reprint: as “Innocent at Large”, Popular 565. |
| b * |
Richard McKaye, Portrait of the Damned. NY, Twayne, 1953. Pb reprint: Signet 1110. |
| d | Ugo Moretti, Rogue Wind. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1953. Pb: Popular 585. |
| d | Roger Nimier, The Blue Hussar. NY, Messner, 1953. Pb: Signet 1273. |
| a * |
Goffredo Parise, The Dead Boy and the Comets. NY, Farrar, Straus, ’53. |
| b&c | Jordan Park, Half. PbO: NY, Lion 135, 1953. |
| b * |
Frederic Prokosch, Nine Days to Mukalla. NY, Viking, 1953. Pb reprint: Avon T90. |
| Frederick Rolfe, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. 1953. (See 1934). | |
| b&f ** |
Gerald Sykes, The Children of Light. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1953. |
| b *** |
Gore Vidal, The Judgement of Paris. NY, Dutton, 1953. |
| a ** |
Paul Warren, Next Time Is For Life. PbO; NY, Dell FE6, 1953. |
| b * |
John Lee Weldon, The Naked Heart. NY, Farrar, Straus, ’53. Pb: Signet 1126. |
| d | Tennessee Williams, Camino Real (D). NY, New Directions, 1953. |
1954
| b * |
Walter Baxter, The Image and the Search. NY, Putnam’s, 1954. |
| b * |
Leonard Bishop, Creep into thy Narrow Bed. NY, Dial, 1954. Pb reprint: Pyramid G206 (abridged) |
| b * |
Taylor Caldwell, Never Victorious Never Defeated. NY, McGraw-Hill ’54. Pb reprint: Cardinal C202 (drastically abridged). |
| a * |
John Flagg, Dear, Deadly Beloved. PbO: NY, Fawcett Gold Medal #391, 1954. |
| c | Jean Genet, Deathwatch (D) in “The Maids and Deathwatch”, NY, Grove, 1954. Vs. Grove reprints including 1958(PC): Grove E44. |
| b ** |
Christopher Isherwood, The World in the Evening. NY, Random, 1954. Pb reprint: Popular 710. |
| d * |
Nikos Kazantzakis, The Greek Passion. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1954. |
| d | Speed Lamkin, The Easter Egg Hunt. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954. Pb reprint: as “Fast and Loose”, Popular 663. |
| d | Ross MacRoss, The Beautiful and Dead. PbO: NY, Fawcett Gold Medal 386, 1954. |
| b&c *** |
Roger Peyrefitte, Diplomatic Diversions. NY, Vanguard, 1954. |
| c ** |
Alexander Randolph, The Mail Boat. NY, Holt, 1954. (Primary?) |
| a ** |
Mordecai Richler, The Acrobats. NY, Putnam’s, 1954. Pb reprint: as “Wicked We Love”, Popular 677. |
| c * |
Anya Seton, Katherine. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954. Pb reprint: Cardinal GC752. |
| e | John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday. NY, Viking, 1954. Pb reprint: Bantam A1412. |
| c&d * |
Desmond Stewart, The Unsuitable Englishman. NY, Farrar Straus, ’54. Pb reprint: as “A Stranger in Eden”, Signet 1357. |
| b * |
Benjamin Subercaseaux, Jemmy Button. NY, MacMillan, 1954. |
| d * |
Eugene Walter, The Untidy Pilgrim. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1954. |
| c | Tennessee Williams, Three Players of a Summer Game (SS) and The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin (SS) in “Hard Candy”. NY, New Directions, 1954. (See also Primary, 1954). |
1955
| c * |
Steve Allen, Houston Incident (SS) in “Fourteen for Tonight”. NY, Holt, 1955. Pb reprint: Dell D172. |
| d * |
Alfred Bester, Who He? NY, Doubleday, 1955. Pb reprint: as “The Rat Race”, Berkley G19. |
| d | Vance Bourjaily, The Hound of Earth. NY, Scribner’s, 1955. Perm 4052. |
| c&d * |
John Breon, The Sorrows of Travel. NY, Putnam’s, 1955. |
| d | Clemence Dane, The Flower Girls. NY, Norton, 1955. |
| b * |
Angna Enters, Among the Daughters. NY, Coward-McCann, 1955. |
| b * |
John Foster, Dark Heritage. PbO: Fawcett Gold Medal 486, 1955. |
| d&f * |
William Gaddis, The Recognitions. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1955. |
| a * |
Rodney Garland (Adam de Hegedus), The Troubled Midnight. NY, Coward-McCann, 1955. Pb reprint: Lion 128. |
| d * |
Julien Green, South (D) in “Plays of the Year v.12”. London, Elek, ’55. |
| a * |
Mel Heimer, The Girl in Murder Flat. PbO: NY, Fawcett GM458, 1955. |
| c * |
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley. NY, Coward-McCann, 1955. |
| a * |
Margaret Mackay, Four Fates. NY, Day, 1955. |
| a ** |
Norman Mailer, The Deer Park. NY, Putnam’s, 1955. Pb: Signet D1375. |
| a ** |
Robin Maugham, Behind the Mirror. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1955. Pb reprint: as “The Jungle of Love”, Avon 695. |
| a ** |
Margaret Millar, The Beast in View. NY, Random, 1955. Pb: Bantam 1542. |
| f | Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge (D). NY, Viking, 1955. |
| d * |
Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless. NY, Pantheon, 1995. (PC) Noonday, 1958. |
| a *** |
Malcolm Nesbit, Chariot of Flesh. Paris, Olympia, 1955. |
| c | Robert Payne, The Roaring Boys. NY, Doubleday, 1955. |
| d&f | Roger Peyrefitte, Diplomatic Conclusions. NY, Vanguard, 1955. |
| d * |
Frederic Prokosch, A Tale for Midnight. Boston, Little Brown, 1955. Pb reprint: Popular G171. |
| Forrest Reid, Uncle Stephen. 1955. See OTP, 1931. | |
| d | Robert Ruark, Something of Value. NY, Doubleday, 1955. Pb: Cardinal 753. |
| a ** |
Count D. A. F. de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom. Paris, Olympia, 1955. |
| a ** |
Michael Scarrott, Ambassador of Loss. London, Fortune, 1955. |
| e | Anthony West, Heritage. NY, Random, 1955. Pb reprint: PB C235. |
| e&f | Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (D). NY, New Directions, ’55. Pb reprint: Signet S1590. |
1956
| c | Thomas Anderson, Your Own Beloved Sons. NY, Random, 1956. Pb: Bantam 1570. |
| d | Nigel Balchin, The Fall of the Sparrow. NY, Rinehart, 1956. |
| d | Heinrich Böll, The Train Was on Time. NY, Criterion, 1956. |
| a *** |
Harriet Daimler & Henry Crannach, The Pleasure Thieves. Paris, Olympia, 1956. (PC) |
| a | Maurice Druon, The Iron King. NY, Scribner’s, 1956. Pb reprint: Ace D302. |
| d | Constantine FitzGibbon, The Fair Game. NY, Norton, 1956. (Also PC). |
| d * |
Allen Ginsberg, Howl (P) in “Howl and Other Poems”. San Francisco, The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, Pocket Poet Series No. 4, 1956 (PC). |
| d | Caroline Gordon, The Malefactors. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1956. |
| b * |
Willi Heinrich, The Cross of Iron. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, ’56. Pb reprint: Bantam 1599. |
| c | Lance Horner, The Street of the Sun. NY, Abelard, 1956. |
| c | Francis King, The Dark Glasses. NY, Pantheon, 1956. |
| d * |
Wolfgang Koeppen, Death in Rome. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956. |
| d | N. Martin Kramer, The Hearth and the Strangeness. NY, MacMillan, 1956. Pb reprint: Pyramid R236. |
| c/d * |
Meyer Levin, Compulsion. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1956. Pb reprint: Cardinal GC756. |
| d * |
Richard Llewellyn, Mr. Hamish Gleave. NY, Doubleday, 1956. |
| b * |
Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast. NY, Rinehart, 1956. Pb reprint: Bantam A1630. |
| b&c ** |
Kyle Onstott, Mandingo. Richmond, Denlinger’s, 1956. Pb: Crest T202. |
| b ** |
Mary Orr, Diamond in the Sky. NY, Crown, 1956. Pb reprint: Permabook M4086. |
| d | Kenneth Roberts, Boon Island. NY, Doubleday, 1956. |
| d * |
William Rohde, Give Me a Little Something. PbO: Pyramid G226, 1956. |
| b * |
Virginia Rowans (Patrick Dennis), The Loving Couple. NY, Crowell, 1956. Pb reprint: Permabook M4077. |
| d | Carlo Scarfoglio, The True Cross. NY, Pantheon, 1956. |
| d | Maarten Schiemer, The Cry of the Kite. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, ’56. |
| a ** |
John Taylor, Shadows of Shame. PbO: NY, Pyramid G189, 1956. |
| c&d * |
Frederic Wakeman, De Luxe Tour. NY, Rinehart, 1956. Pb reprint: Cardinal C254. |
| a ** |
Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. NY, Viking, 1956. |
| a *** |
Maritta Wolff, The Big Nickelodeon. NY, Random, 1956. Pb reprint: Bantam AT721. |
1957
| a ** |
Jim Barbee, Young John. NY, Pan, 1957. |
| b&c * |
Brigid Brophy, The King of a Rainy Country. NY, Knopf (PC), 1957. |
| d | Hallie Burnett, The Brain Pickers. NY, Messner, 1957. Pb: Dell D237. |
| Jean Cocteau, The Holy Terrors. 1957 (Lehmann translation). See 1930. | |
| c | Lettice Cooper, Three Lives. London, Gollancz, 1957. |
| b ** |
Henry Crannach, Flesh and Bone. Paris, Olympia, 1957. (PC) |
| a * |
Harriet Daimler, Innocence. Paris, Olympia, 1957. (PC) |
| a * |
Patrick Dennis & Dorothy Erskine, The Pink Hotel. NY, Putnam’s, 1957. Pb reprint: Crest S227. |
| d | Lawrence Durrell, Justine. NY, Dutton, 1957. |
| b * |
Gabriel Fielding, In the Time of Greenbloom. NY, Morrow, 1957. |
| d | Arthur Foff, North of Market. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1957. |
| a ** |
Anne Hocking, The Simple Way of Poison. NY, Washburn, 1957. |
| f | Storm Jameson, A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill. NY, Harper, 1957. |
| a * |
Pamela Hansford Johnson, The Sea and the Wedding. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1957. (Original British title: The Last Resort.) |
| c ** |
Francis King, The Man on the Rock. NY, Pantheon, 1957. |
| c * |
C. H. B. Kitchin, Ten Pollitt Place. London, Secker & Warburg, 1957. |
| c * |
David Stuart Leslie, The Man on the Beach. London, Hutchinson, 1957. |
| acf ** |
James Mitchell, Here’s a Villain. London, Davies, 1957. |
| d | Alexandra Orme, Natalie. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1957. |
| c | Bettina Postani, Before the Cock Crows. Boston, Little Brown, 1957. |
| a ** |
James Purdy, 63: Dream Palace. (SN) |
| c * |
James Purdy, Man and Wife. (SS) |
| in “Color of Darkness”. NY, New Directions, 1957. | |
| a *** |
Count D. A. F. de Sade, The Bedroom Philosophers. Paris, Olympia, 1957. (PC) |
| b&f | Gladys Schmitt, A Small Fire. NY, Dial, 1957. |
| a ** |
Jill Stern, Not in our Stars. NY, McKay, 1957. Pb reprint: as “Nine Miles to Reno”, Signet S1570. |
| a *** |
Christopher Teale, Behind These Walls. NY, Fell, 1957. |
| d | Frank Tuohy, The Animal Game. NY, Scribner’s, 1957. |
| f | Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Boston, Little Brown, ’57. |
| d&f | Angus Wilson, A Bit Off the Map (SS) in “A Bit off the Map”. NY, Viking, 1957. |
| c/d * |
Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grace. NY, Farrar Straus, 1957. |
1958
| d * |
Vance Bourjaily, The Violated. NY, Dial, 1958. |
| b * |
Tom Chetwynd, Rushing Nowhere. London, Blond, 1958. |
| a ** |
Jean-Paul Clebert, The Blockhouse. NY, Coward-McCann, 1958. |
| d | Bud Clifton, Muscle Boy. PbO: NY, Ace D330, 1958. |
| d * |
Carlo Coccioli, Manuel the Mexican. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1958. |
| c * |
Charles Criswell, Marty (SS) in “Nobody Knows What the Stork Will Bring”. NY, McDowell, 1958. |
| d | Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar. NY, Dutton, 1958. |
| d&f * |
Pamela Frankau, Ask Me No More. NY, Harper, 1958. |
| d * |
Robert Gutwillig, After Long Silence. Boston, Little Brown, 1958. |
| d * |
Hans Habe, The Devil’s Agent. NY, Fell, 1958. |
| d * |
Thomas Hinde, Happy as Larry. NY, Criterion, 1958. |
| a ** |
Herbert D. Kastle, Koptic Court. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1958. |
| d * |
Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans. NY, Grove, 1958 (also PC). Pb reprint: Avon T302. |
| d * |
Robert Kyle, Blackmail Inc. PbO: NY, Dell A155, 1958. |
| d * |
Richard Llewellyn, Chez Pavan. NY, Doubleday, 1958. |
| a * |
Howard Manisch, By Their Fruits. NY, Crown, 1958. |
| a * |
John O’Hara, From the Terrace. NY, Random, 1958. |
| d&f * |
Vin Packer, 5:45 to Suburbia. PbO: Fawcett Gold Medal 371, NY, 1958. |
| b ** |
Jerry Pezzella, Gateway to Tomorrow. NY, Vantage, 1958. |
| d * |
Bentz Plagemann, The Steel Cocoon. NY, Viking, 1958. |
| d * |
John Rechy, Mardi Gras (SS) in PbO “Evergreen Review No. 5”, NY, 1958. |
| d * |
Mary Renault, The King Must Die. NY, Pantheon, 1958. |
| c * |
Fr. Rolfe, Nicholas Crabbe or The One and the Many. NY, New Directions, 1958. |
| d * |
Irwin Rose, Serpent in the Sky. Westport, Associated Booksellers, 1958. |
| a *** |
Walter Ross, The Immortal. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1958. |
| b * |
Count D. A. F. de Sade, Juliette vol. I. Paris, Olympia, 1958. |
| d * |
Mario Soldati, The Confession. NY, Knopf, 1958. |
| d * |
Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree. NY, Putnam’s, 1958. |
| c | Bianca Van Orden, Water Music. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1958. |
| a ** |
R. H. Ward, The Wilderness. London, Cassell, 1958. |
| d ** |
John Wiles, The Asphalt Playground. London, Gollancz, 1958. |
| e | Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer (D). NY, New Directions, ’58. |
| b * |
Herman Wouk, Nature’s Way (D). NY, Doubleday, 1958. |
1959