a Oakley M. Hall, _Corpus of Joe Bailey_. NY, Viking, 1953. ** Pb reprint: Permabook M4006. d Maude Hutchins, _My Hero_. NY, New Directions, 1953. * a Marcel Jouhandeau, _Marcel and Elise_. NY, Pantheon, 1953. * a Raffaele La Capria, _A Day of Impatience_. NY, Farrar, Straus, * 1953. Pb reprint: as “First Affair”, Signet 1223. b Noel Langley, _The Rift in the Lute_. NY, Coward-McCann, 1953. * Pb reprint: as “Innocent at Large”, Popular 565. b Richard McKaye, _Portrait of the Damned_. NY, Twayne, 1953. * Pb reprint: Signet 1110. d Ugo Moretti, _Rogue Wind_. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1953. Pb: Popular 585. d Roger Nimier, _The Blue Hussar_. NY, Messner, 1953. Pb: Signet 1273. a Goffredo Parise, _The Dead Boy and the Comets_. NY, Farrar, * Straus, ’53. b&c Jordan Park, _Half_. PbO: NY, Lion 135, 1953. b Frederic Prokosch, _Nine Days to Mukalla_. NY, Viking, 1953. * Pb reprint: Avon T90. Frederick Rolfe, _The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole_. 1953. (See 1934). b&f Gerald Sykes, _The Children of Light_. NY, Farrar, Straus, 1953. ** b Gore Vidal, _The Judgement of Paris_. NY, Dutton, 1953. *** a Paul Warren, _Next Time Is For Life_. PbO; NY, Dell FE6, 1953. ** b John Lee Weldon, _The Naked Heart_. NY, Farrar, Straus, ’53. Pb: * Signet 1126. d Tennessee Williams, _Camino Real_ (D). NY, New Directions, 1953. _1954_ b Walter Baxter, _The Image and the Search_. NY, Putnam’s, 1954. * b Leonard Bishop, _Creep into thy Narrow Bed_. NY, Dial, 1954. * Pb reprint: Pyramid G206 (abridged) b Taylor Caldwell, _Never Victorious Never Defeated_. NY, McGraw-Hill ’54. Pb reprint: Cardinal C202 (drastically abridged). a John Flagg, _Dear, Deadly Beloved_. PbO: NY, Fawcett Gold Medal * #391, 1954. c Jean Genet, _Deathwatch_ (D) in “The Maids and Deathwatch”, NY, Grove, 1954. Vs. Grove reprints including 1958(PC): Grove E44. b Christopher Isherwood, _The World in the Evening_. NY, Random, ** 1954. Pb reprint: Popular 710. d Nikos Kazantzakis, _The Greek Passion_. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1954. * d Speed Lamkin, _The Easter Egg Hunt_. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954. Pb reprint: as “Fast and Loose”, Popular 663. d Ross MacRoss, _The Beautiful and Dead_. PbO: NY, Fawcett Gold Medal 386, 1954. b&c Roger Peyrefitte, _Diplomatic Diversions_. NY, Vanguard, 1954. *** c Alexander Randolph, _The Mail Boat_. NY, Holt, 1954. (Primary?) ** a Mordecai Richler, _The Acrobats_. NY, Putnam’s, 1954. ** Pb reprint: as “Wicked We Love”, Popular 677. c Anya Seton, _Katherine_. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954. * Pb reprint: Cardinal GC752. e John Steinbeck, _Sweet Thursday_. NY, Viking, 1954. Pb reprint: Bantam A1412. c&d Desmond Stewart, _The Unsuitable Englishman_. NY, Farrar Straus, * ’54. Pb reprint: as “A Stranger in Eden”, Signet 1357.