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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 10, 1952

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THE CAINE MUTINY
Herman Wouk
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THE CAINE MUTINY

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

48 wks at #1 · 69 on list

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

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THE GOWN OF GLORY
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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THE GOWN OF GLORY

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin

19 wks on list

Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.

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THE SILVER CHALICE
Thomas B. Costain
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THE SILVER CHALICE

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday and Company, Inc

2 wks on list

"This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the ... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper"--Fiction catalog.

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THE CRUEL SEA
Nicholas Monsarrat
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THE CRUEL SEA

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

52 wks on list

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

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THE GOLDEN HAND
Edith Simon

THE GOLDEN HAND

by Edith Simon · Putnam

13 wks on list

A Cathedral is built in 14th-century England, in honor of a miracle.

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SCALPEL
Horace McCoy

SCALPEL

by Horace McCoy · Appleton-Century-Crofts

4 wks on list

Tom Owen, an ex-miner from Coalville, Pennsylvania, becomes a successful surgeon In Pittsburgh. He must choose between two women and consequently, two lifestyles.

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THE SHINING TIDES
Win Brooks

THE SHINING TIDES

by Win Brooks · William Morrow and Company

2 wks on list

Cape Cod and the striped bass, whose comings and goings have a lot to do with the lives of some of the inhabitants.

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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Taylor Caldwell

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

by Taylor Caldwell · Crown Publishers. Inc

Novel of America in 1970 when an enslaved and oppressed people finally rise against their masters, the ruling powers of a totalitarian state, whose origin is traced back to the New Deal of the 1930's.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.