Books Published in January 1959

New Books List: 3 titles

  • Nude

    Kenneth Clark

    The author traces the history of the depiction of the human body from the earliest civilized times to the present day. Starting with the Greeks who used the nude to express certain fundamental human needs, such as the need for harmony and order (Apol...

  • Secret of Apache Canyon

    Richard Telfair

    ROGETT was a brave man, so it was with a steady hand he urged his horse up the trail. And he did not panic when the arrow whistled by his head, burying itself in the trunk of a half-dead tree.

    ROGETT remained perfectly still and waited for the In...

  • Sweet Bird of Youth

    Tennessee Williams

    Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.

    Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a fa...