The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

The famed Ace editions, now collectors ' items There was a time when no paperback publisher would publish fantasy.

Don was one of the fathers of the entire paperback industry.

He'd spearheaded the Ace line, he was the originating editor-in-chief of the Avon paperback list in 1945, and I think he was hurt and took it personally.

Tolkien had authorized a paperback edition of The Hobbit in 1961, though that edition was never made available outside the U. K.

Eventually, he supported paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings and several of his other texts, but it is difficult to say whether he was persuaded to do so by the manifest economic wisdom evident in sales of the Ace editions.

A 1993 court determined that the copyright loophole suggested by Ace Books was incorrect and its paperback edition was found to have been a violation of copyright under US law.

Entitled Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation, the paperback graphic adaptation was illustrated by Tim Hamilton.

The Second Revised Edition was published only in paperback and it differs from the earlier one by only four short pieces H. Laurence, ' Editor's Note to the Second Edition '.

Two books have been published with write-ups on some of the winners: The Ig Nobel Prize ( 2002, US paperback ISBN 0-452-28573-9, UK paperback ISBN 0-7528-4261-7 ) and The Ig Nobel Prize 2 ( 2005, US hardcover ISBN 0-525-94912-7, UK hardcover ISBN 0-7528-6461-0 ), which was later retitled The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself ( ISBN 0-452-28772-3 ).

A paperback book titled Women's Barracks describing a woman's experiences in the Free French Forces was published in 1950.

When a comic strip satirizing England's royal family was reprinted in a Mad paperback, it was deemed necessary to rip out the page from 25, 000 copies by hand before the book could be distributed in Great Britain.

A biography, Ogden Nash: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse, was written by Douglas M. Parker, published in 2005 and in paperback in 2007.

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, was a paperback tie-in for the King-penned miniseries Rose Red.

The fourth installment of the novel series is titled The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm, by Michael A. Martin was announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 154, released in trade paperback format on October 25 2011 and is the final novel in The Romulan War series, taking the story to the end of the Romulan War and the decommission of the Enterprise.

When early Saint books were republished in the 1960s to the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see freshly written introductions by Charteris apologizing for the out-of-date tone ; according to a Charteris " apology " in a 1969 paperback of Featuring the Saint, he attempted to update some earlier stories when they were reprinted but gave up and let them sit as period pieces.

The books published by Hofstadter are ( the ISBNs refer to paperback editions, where available ):

And if he hadn ’ t done it, who knows when — or if — those books would have been published in paperback.

Sword & Sorcery Studios also published three paperback supplements for the d20 version of Gamma World:

To commemorate the 75th anniversary ( May 2011 ) of the publication of Gone with the Wind in 1936, Scribner published a paperback edition featuring the book's original jacket art.

They are awarded to the best original paperback published each year in the US.

Also published as The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague ( in the UK, ISBN 0-436-20521-1 ; in Canada, ISBN 0-7717-5690-7 ); and in paperback as The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague ( 2007 ) ISBN 978184413537.

In April of that year, King published Blockade Billy, an original novella issued first by independent small press Cemetery Dance Publications and later released in mass market paperback by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN 0-7185-1417-3 ( paperback published by Continuum, 1994: ISBN 0-7185-2084-X )

Because of this, the entire run was later published in one large paperback edition entitled ' The Complete Paradise Too '.

Dozens of paperback collections have been published since 1965, and some titles are still in print as of 2010.

A novelization of the film was written by Lee Sheridan adapted from Richard Matheson's screenplay in 1961 and published by Lancer Books in paperback.

The first installment of Volume 4 ( a paperback fascicle ) was published in 2005.

In 1979 Bantam Books published a trade paperback edition with illustrations by Ian Miller.

The entire series was collected in a trade paperback and published by Eddie Campbell Comics in 1999 ; trade paperback and hardcover versions are now published by Top Shelf Productions in the USA and Knockabout Comics in the UK.

An extended paperback edition, retitled ' Glenn Hughes: The Autobiography ', was published in late 2011 by Jawbone Press.

In 1964, a heavily abridged version was published as a mass market paperback, which was then translated into English for publication the following year as Madness and Civilization.

* William Ury, Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation, revised second edition, Bantam, January 1, 1993, trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37131-2 ; 1st edition under the title, Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People, Bantam, September, 1991, hardcover, 161 pages, ISBN 0-553-07274-9

* The Long Walk-a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original-revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest along a route that roughly follows and extends beyond the Boston Post Road.

The Long Walk is a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original.

An unabridged paperback edition was published in the late 1960s in arrangement with Doubleday by Fawcett Publications World Library, under its Crest Book imprint.

First paperback edition published under the title: Big Lonely ( Toronto: new press, 1971 ).

The film was novelized in 1977, in paperback under the pseudonym of " Carl Dreadstone ", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films.

Among other things, it printed mass paperback books under contract, was the primary manufacturer and distributor of the board games Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary, plus other table-top games.

* William Robert Cox ( 1901 – 1988 ), prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets written under multiple pseudonyms.

Toward the end of their careers, the cousins allowed some crime novels, mainly paperback originals, to be written by various ghostwriters under the Ellery Queen name.

The hardcover collection was reprinted as a trade paperback in June 1994 under a new McKean cover, with identical content.

It is based on the concept that communication can only take place at the right time and under the right circumstances " ( p. 19 of 2001 paperback edition ).

The script was adapted as a mass market paperback novelization in 1982 by science-fiction writer Dennis Etchison writing under the pseudonym Jack Martin.

* Fontana Modern Masters a groundbreaking series of pocket guides on eminent writers, philosophers and other thinkers, published by Collins under its paperback imprint, Fontana Books, in the 1970s

Gravity's Rainbow is available in paperback under ISBN 0-14-018859-2 ( New York: Penguin, 1995 ), ISBN 0-14-028338-2 ( New York: Penguin, 2000 ), and ISBN 0-14-303994-6 ( New York: Penguin, 2006 ).

Dutton, 1954 ), released in a paperback edition in 1955 under the new title Farewell My Young Lover ( replete with a lurid illustration on the cover ).

So, even with the later transition into paperback books, the company continued under the name Scholastic Magazines, Inc., through the 1970s.

The company published paperback books under its division Scholastic Book Services.

In the 1990s, Johnny began as a comic strip, then ran under alternative comics publisher Slave Labor Graphics as a limited series of seven issues, later collected in the trade paperback Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut.

In 1968, the US publisher Scholastic ( which markets mainly to children and adolescents ) published a paperback edition under the title Assignment: Rescue, and subsequent reprints have appeared under both of the above titles.

As an example, when Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever was adapted into the 1988 film Die Hard, the novel was republished as a paperback tie-in under the Die Hard title with the film's poster on the cover.

The Campus Murders is a 1969 paperback novel by Gil Brewer ( 1922-1983 ) published under the name Ellery Queen.

Some paperback editions, including the first American edition, were published under the alternative title of Ryan's Rules ( which is also the name of a 1996 Mills & Boon romance novel by Alison Kelly ).