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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of July 2, 1961

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RING OF BRIGHT WATER
Gavin Maxwell
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RING OF BRIGHT WATER

by Gavin Maxwell · E.P. Dutton

17 wks on list

A personal narrative of life with two pet otters on the isolated Western Highlands of Scotland.

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SKYLINE
Gene Fowler

SKYLINE

by Gene Fowler · Viking Press

20 wks on list

Memories of the newsrooms of the "New York American" and the "Morning Telegraph" of the 1920s, recalling some of the personalities the author encountered.

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REALITY IN ADVERTISING
Rosser Reeves
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REALITY IN ADVERTISING

by Rosser Reeves · Alfred A. Knopf

8 wks on list

Rarely has a book about advertising created such a commotion as this brilliant account of the principles of successful advertising. Published in 1961, Reality in Advertising was listed for weeks on the general best-seller lists, and is today acknowledged to be advertising's greatest classic. It has been translated into twelve languages and has been published in twenty-one separate editions in fifteen countries. Leading business executives, and the advertising cognoscenti, hail it as "the best book for professionals that has ever come out of Madison Avenue." Rosser Reeves says: "The book attempts to formulate certain theories of advertising, many quite new, and all based on 30 years of intensive research." These theories, whose value has been proved in the marketplace, all revolve around the central concept that success in selling a product is the key criterion of advertising. Get Your Copy Now

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THE SIXTH MAN
Jess Stearn

THE SIXTH MAN

by Jess Stearn · Doubleday

10 wks on list

Author is a straight journalist.--Misha Schutt.

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