Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Carter Brown (Lament for a Lousy Lover)

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 12 Jul 2006


--- scott64b < s.kime@comcast.net> wrote:

> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey <e_lynskey@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I picked up Carter Brown's LAMENT FOR A LOUSY LOVER (good
> noir
> > title)(NAL, 1960). I've never read anything by this author.
> Is
> > Carter Brown a pseudonym? I spot a Boucher blurb on it.
> >
> > On something else, I notice the listed price on this
> paperback
> > is 65 cents, published in 1960. Didn't the first paperbacks
> > appearing after WW II cost 25 cents? I wonder when the
> price
> > escalated by 10 cents (say by the mid-1950s).
> >
> > How did the book costs escalate with the passing years. For
> > instance, I'm reading a Helen Reilly book that cost 75
> cents,
> > published in 1971 (IIRC, minimum wage was $1.60 in 1971).
> So, a
> > wage earner worked for less than a half-hour to purchase a
> > paperback to read.
> >
> > Ed
>
> I pulled out my copy published in 1960....S1856, it is stated
> on the
> cover as for 35 cents. Not sure where the 65 cents is coming
> from.
> Maybe from Canada, but I do not think it would be that
> different in price.

No, you're correct. The cover price on mine states 35 cents. Sorry for the mistake.

Ed

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