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<\/a><\/p>\nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn<\/em>, Betty Smith. New York:\u00a0Council on Books in Wartime,\u00a01943.<\/p>\n (Armed Services edition ;\u00a0D-117) x-Collection PS3537.M325\u00a0T7 1943b<\/p>\n Armed Services Editions, printed from 1943-1946 for American soldiers during World War II, are notable for their unusual horizontal format. They were printed two at a time on magazine presses <\/em>and then cut in half horizontally, resulting in an oblong book. The text is also printed in two columns per page.This copy of Smith\u2019s novel was published as a hardcover first edition by Harper & Brothers in 1943, the same year the Armed Services Edition was published. Our copy is worn, and the glue holding the cover on has detached so you can see the large staple that is <\/em>the only things holding the pages together. Did this book travel to Europe or the Pacific tucked in a soldier\u2019s cargo pocket?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Th<\/em>ere are many paperback cookbooks in the Szathmary Culinary Collection, including this Chinese cookbook, the first paperback edition of What\u2019s Cooking at Chang\u2019s?<\/em> (renamed in paperback). The low cost and accessibility of paperback cookbooks made a broader range of recipes and techniques available to a large audience \u2013 in this case, \u201ctantalizing, exotic dishes you can prepare with ingredients easily available at your grocer or supermarket.\u201d\u00a0 Paperbacks from the 1950s-70s in the Szathmary collection range from microwave cooking to wine to recipes from all over the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sig<\/em>nal Thirty-Two<\/em>, MacKinlay Kantor. New York: Bantam Books, 1952. Iowa Authors Collection<\/p>\n One of the benefits of our Iowa Authors Collection<\/a> for book historians is the opportunity to look at multiple editions of a single title, including paperbacks. Webster City native MacKinlay Kantor was a prolific journalist and novelist. This \u201cBantam Giant\u201d paperback edition of his novel Signal Thirty-Two fits the stereotype of a mid-twentieth century paperback with its dramatic cover art, but other characteristics of the book indicate a desire to represent a \u201cquality\u201d not always associated with paperbacks, especially in the 1950s when they were still a relatively new format. The slogans \u201cBantam Giants \u2013 not one word cut\u201d and \u201cEvery Book Complete\u201d emphasize that the paperback, while physically smaller, is not an abridged version of the hardcover original. Signal Thirty-Two<\/em>\u2019s title page stretches across a spread, showing attention to innovative graphic design, and the text ends with a solicitation from the Bantam paperbacks editor for reader input and recommendations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our ever-growing science fiction collections include many paperbacks, as much of that genre was first or only published in the ephemeral and cheap paperback format. One particular gem is the first edition of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s second novel, Sirens of Titan<\/em>. Though Vonnegut is now recognized as an important an influential American author, in 1959 this first edition was pocket-sized, printed on cheap paper, and sold for 35 cents.<\/p>\n This book, as well as some other exciting paperbacks from our collection, will be on display in our pop-up case. Come check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students from Professor Loren Glass\u2019 English\/UI Center for the Book course Literature and the Book: The Paperback Revolution are using materials from Special Collections this semester to uncover the impact of paperback books on twentieth century American literature and culture.\u00a0 As they do, we are uncovering some hidden treasures of the paperback revolution in theContinue reading “Paperbacks in the Stacks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Chinese Cooking Made Easy<\/em>, Isabelle C. Chang. New York: Paperback Library, Inc. 1961. Szathmary TX725.C514 1961<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Sirens of Titan<\/em>, Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Dell, 1959. x-Collection PS3572.O66 S47 1959<\/p>\n