Book-Sized Paperbacks

This series is unnumbered but a unique curiosity. Random House issued significant backlist titles as Book-Sized Paperbacks under three of its imprints, Random House, Knopf, and Pantheon. Here's the full, unnumbered list of titles, arranged first by year then by author:

• Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum (Pantheon 1964, $2.45)

• H.L. Humes, The Underground City (Random House 1964, $2.45)

• William Humphrey, Home from the Hill (Knopf 1964, $1.95)

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (Pantheon 1964, $1.45)

• James Michener, Hawaii (Random House 1964, $2.95)

• John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Knopf 1964, $1.95)

• Bryher, Roman Wall (Pantheon 1965, $1.95)

• Herbert Gold, The Man Who Was Not With It (Random House 1965, $1.95)

• James Morris, The World of Venice (Pantheon 1965, $1.95)

• Nancy Wilson Ross, ed., The World of Zen (Random House 1965, $3.95)

• Charles E. Silberman, The Crisis in Black and White (Random House 1965, $1.95)

Random, Pantheon, Knopf Book-Sized Paperbacks, PW, July 27, 1964, at 36 (announcing the first batch of six Book-Sized Paperbacks, to be published Aug. 12, 1964, and showing a promotional poster with detachable bookmarks).

Random House, Pantheon and Knopf, PW, Mar. 1, 1965, at 66 (announcing the second batch of five Book-Sized Paperbacks, which had been published on Feb. 24, 1965).