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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.
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