Avon Modern Short Story Monthly #36 — page 131: what you’re looking at

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Js von MODERN SHORT STORY MONTHLY Although faced for some time now by sharply rising paper and manufacturing costs, the Avon Book Company has refused to raise the price of the Modern Short Story Monthly. The increased production cost has been absorbed by the company. We have now reached a point,. however, where an upward adjustment in the selling price of these books is absolutely necessary. Therefore, starting with No. 35, the Avon Modern Short Story Monthly goes up to 35c per copy. It is with great reluctance that we take this step, and only after the increas- ingly heavy cost of production has made it impossible for us to sell these books at their former price. Future issues of the Modern Short Story Monthly will have beau- tifully laminated full color covers and we will continue, as heretofore, to present only the very best stories by the cream of modern writers. 2. JOHN O’HARA'S Files on Parade. Thirty-five Short Stories. 4, WILLIAM SAROYAN’S from Inhale & Exhale. Thirty-one Selected Stories. 8. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'’S First Person Singular. More Great Short Stories. 10. JAMES T. FARRELL'S Selected Modern Stories. 12. WILLIAM SAROYAN'’S 34 More Great Stories. 13. LOUIS BROMFIELD’S Three Short Novels. 14. ERSKINE CALDWELL’S 22 Modern Stories. From “Jackpot.” 16. FANNIE HURST Eight Long Short Stories. 18. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S Ah King. 19. EDNA FERBER’S They Brought Their Women. 20. Twelve Selected Modern Stories by Twelve Famous Writers. 21. JAMES T. FARRELL’S 12 Great Modern Stories. 23. PEARL BUCK’S Great Stories of China. 24. LOUIS BROMFIELD’S Five Long Short Stories. 25. A NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES by Great Modern Writers. 26. BEN HECHT’S A Thousand and One Afternoons in New York. 28. AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES by Famous Writers. 29. JOHN O’HARA’S Hope of Heaven. 30. ERSKINE CALDWELL’S Georgia Boy. 31. A NEW COLLECTION OF GREAT STORIES. 32. IRWIN SHAW’S Welcome To The City. 33, AN ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT STORIES. 34, GREAT STORIES by Louis Bromfield. 35. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S Trembling of a Leaf. 36. RAPHAEL SABATINI’S Stories of Love and Adventure. READY SHORTLY 37. A FIRST-RATE COLLECTION OF MODERN STORIES 38. BEN HECHT’S COLLECTED SHORT STORIES On Sale at Your Newsdealer or from the Publishers AVON PUBLICATIONS, INC. 119 West 57th Street New York 19, N. Y. cCOMmicboooks.com