Popular Library was a paperback book company established by Ned Pines in 1942, who at the time was a major pulp magazine publisher. Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. Ned L Pines (1906-1990 was a New York Publisher. He died in Paris, and lived in Paris Manhattan and East Hampton ( Long Island) Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines Their logo of a pine tree was a tribute to him.
The company existed until 1971. It also had the "Curtis Books" imprint. In 1970, the company was bought out by Fawcett Publications, who later bought by CBS in 1977, and which later sold it to Warner Communications in 1982. Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885-1940 CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. It remained an imprint until the early 1980s.