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The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), 1953 Pocket Books edition
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), 1953 Pocket Books edition

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding.

Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch; Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had 1 million books in print by the following year. Albatross Books was a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern Mass market paperback books Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1944, the founding owners sold the company to Marshall Field III, owner of the Chicago Sun newspaper. Marshall Field III ( September 28, 1893 – November 8, 1956) was a grandson of Marshall Field. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. Following his death, in 1957, Leon Shimkin, a Simon & Schuster partner, and James M. Jacobson bought Pocket Books.

Penguin's success inspired entrepreneur Robert de Graff, who partnered with publishers Simon & Schuster to bring it to the American market. Priced at 25 cents and featuring the logo of Gertrude the kangaroo (named after the artist's mother-in-law), Pocket Books' editorial policy of reprints of light literature, popular non-fiction, and mysteries was coordinated with its strategy of selling books outside the traditional distribution channels. A kangaroo is a Marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods meaning 'large foot' The format size, and the fact that the books were glued rather than stitched, were cost-cutting innovations.

The first ten Pocket Book titles:

  1. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  2. Wake Up and Live by Dorothea Brande
  3. Five Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare
  4. Topper by Thorne Smith
  5. The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha Christie
  6. Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
  7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  8. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  9. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  10. Bambi by Felix Salter

The edition of Wuthering Heights hit the best-seller list, and by the end of the first year Pocket Books had sold more than 1. Lost Horizon is a 1933 Novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian James Hilton ( September 9, 1900 &ndash December 20, 1954) was an Oscar -winning English Novelist, and author Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox Musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F Dorothea Brande (1893-1948 was a well respected writer and editor in New York William Shakespeare ( baptised Topper is a series of comedy fantasy novels written by Thorne Smith. James Thorne Smith Jr ( March 27, 1892 &ndash June 21, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernaturnal Fantasy fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of Detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons in June Agatha Mary Clarissa Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 &ndash 12 January 1976 commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English Dorothy Parker (August 22 1893&ndashJune 7 1967 was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic Wit, wisecracks and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë 's only Novel. It was first published in 1847 under the Pseudonym Ellis Bell and a posthumous second Emily Jane Brontë (ˈbrɒnti ( July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was a British Novelist and Poet, now best Samuel Butler ( December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902 was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works including the The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder 's second novel first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim Thornton Niven Wilder ( April 17, 1897 &ndash December 7, 1975) was an American Playwright and Novelist. Bambi A Life in the Woods (originally Bambi ein Leben im Walde) is a book by Felix Salten, first printed in 1923 5 million units. Robert de Graff continued to refine his selections with movie tie-ins and greater emphasis on mystery novels, particularly those of Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner. Erle Stanley Gardner ( July 17, 1889 Malden Massachusetts – March 11, 1970 Temecula California

Pocket and its imitators thrived during World War II because material shortages worked to their advantage. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including During the war, Pocket sued Avon Books for copyright infringement: among other issues, a New York state court found Pocket did not have an exclusive right to the pocket-sized format (both Pocket and Avon published paperback editions of Leslie Charteris' The Saint mystery series, among others). Avon Publications was an American paperback book and Comic book publisher Leslie Charteris ( May 12, 1907, Singapore &ndash April 15, 1993) born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half- Chinese Overview Simon Templar is known as the Saint because of his initials (ST and also because of his heroic exploits that fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation

Pocket is still known for publishing works of popular fiction based on movies or TV series, such as the Star Trek franchise and formerly Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffyverse novels|Angel novels Buffy novels have been published since 1998. The author credited for one of the Buffy products is Gertrude Pocket, a reference to the company's kangaroo logo (The Buffy novels are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, another division of Simon & Schuster). Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L Since first obtaining the Star Trek license from Bantam Books in 1980 (with a publication of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture), Pocket has published hundreds of original and adapted works based upon the franchise. Bantam Books is a major US publishing house owned by Random House and is part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group Star Trek The Motion Picture is a 1979 Science fiction film from Paramount Pictures. Incidentally, Pocket Books is a division of the same company that owns Paramount Pictures, which produced all of the Star Trek television shows and movies. Pocket Boks is also the division that currently owns publication rights to the well-known work of James O'Barr, The Crow. The Crow is a Comic book series created by James O'Barr. The series was originally written by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death

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