Oscar Dystel, who as head of Bantam Books rescued his company and helped revolutionize the publishing industry by bringing paperback editions of “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Jaws” and other ...

How about a paperback book for the same price? Not a used paperback, mind you, but a shiny new one, complete and unabridged. Maybe James Hilton’s Lost Horizon or Agatha Christie’s The Murder ...

The pioneers of the American paperback were Robert De Graff, who published that first list in 1939 at Pocket Books, and Betty and Ian Ballantine, who founded Bantam in 1945.

Richard Williams I Will Make You Disappear Paperback Book Cover Original Art (Bantam Books, 1984), 1984; 15 x 21.5 in. (38.1 x 54.6 cm.) close. View to Scale. Past Auction. Richard Williams.

Fred Klein, who helped make Bantam Books a major force in mass market paperback publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 22. He was described by a former colleague as the greatest ...

Oscar Dystel, who combined sharp editorial judgments, shrewd marketing and attention-grabbing covers to propel Bantam Books from the brink of collapse to pre-eminence in paperback publishing after ...

But this proved untenable for a third party: Bantam Books, which had just paid a hefty $575,000 for the rights to publish Jaws in paperback. With just a title on the cover, ...

Oscar Dystel, a leader of the paperbacks market who transformed Bantam Books into a prolific powerhouse that released best-selling editions of "The Catcher in the Rye," "Jaws," Ragtime" and many ...

Bantam Books has paid close to $45 million for four new novels by Tim Lahaye, a Baptist pastor and co-author of a series of apocalyptic Christian novels that have sold in numbers that rival those ...

Oscar Dystel — who combined sharp editorial judgments, shrewd marketing, and attention-grabbing covers to propel Bantam Books from the brink of collapse to preeminence in paperback publishing ...