BEN HAAS CHECKLIST
Writing As Ben Haas
THE FORAGERS – Simon & Schuster, 1962.
1st PB: Pocket 50174, 1965.
In the dark days near the end
of the Civil War, a starving group of Rebel soldiers come upon a farm being
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2nd PB: Pocket 81700, nd (1978). Canadian printing with Maple Leaf
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1st
UK
PB: Pan X409, 1965.
Re-uses cover art from the UK hardcover published by Peter Davies in 1963.
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KKK – Regency RB319, 1963 PBO (Paperback Original). Cover
design by Terry Martin Rose.
A searing document of reportage, KKK tells the history of
the Ku Klux Klan.
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2nd PB: Greenleaf Classics GC202, nd (1965).
Earl Kemp, who had edited the
first edition of this book at Regency, told me he wanted it reissued when
Regency publisher William L. Hamling started the Greenleaf Classics line in
1965.
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3rd PB: Tower T-095-79, nd (1970).
With an added chapter covering Klan activity from 1963 to
1970.
Tower Books were published by Harry Shorten, who also
published Ben’s books as John Benteen and Quinn Reade.
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LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY – Simon & Schuster, 1964.
1st PB; Pocket 75104, 1965.
“The impact of a dozen sticks of dynamite thrown against
the side of your house…Its characters are alive, so alive that you
feel not only their emotions but their physical reactions.” - Rocky Mountain
News.
LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY is the
story of
America
’s
Civil Rights movement told as a pastiche – a novel with the famous names
changed to “fictional” characters – from a somewhat unexpected source – a
white Southerner.
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1st
UK
PB: New English Library 1930, 1968.
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THE
LAST
VALLEY
– Simon & Schuster, 1966. No PB found. Advanced Reading Copy in wraps is
shown here.
THE
LAST
VALLEY
is a story of conservation
just as powerful as SILENT SPRING and other 1960s books that call for saving
our planet. There is no paperback edition of this great book – Joel Haas
believes that the book was “suppressed by local power companies” who are the
faceless corporate villains of this powerful novel.
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THE TROUBLED SUMMER – Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
1st PB: Tempo T-180, 1968. Young adult.
The Ku Klux Klan rules the
small, sleepy town of
Ardmore
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but one summer a young student named Clay Williams, inspired by a civil
rights organization fighting White Supremacy, races against death to stop a
church bombing - and to confront his own hatred of whites.
1966 short story by Ben Haas:
'Ursus Americanus' in CAVALIER, Nov 1966
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THE
CHANDLER
HERITAGE – Simon & Schuster, 1971.
1st PB: Pocket 78256, 1973. Cover art by Alan Magee.
After years of enjoying Ben’s
pulp and genre paperbacks, it was a pleasant surprise to discover his
mainstream novels were just as rich and involving. THE CHANDLER HERITAGE is
the saga of an American dynasty, a family running a textile mill in the
South. Epic, sprawling, unforgettable -. a powerhouse of an American novel.
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3rd PB: Pocket 78256, 1974. New cover by Hector Garrido.
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1st
UK
PB: Mayflower, 1973. (not shown)
2nd
UK
PB: Mayflower 0 583 12220 5, 1978. Cover art by Dave Pether.
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DAISY CANFIELD – Simon & Schuster, 1973.
1st PB: Pocket 78409, 1974. Cover art by Hector Garrido.
Ben Haas was the poet of the
underdog, and DAISY CANFIELD is about a lonely, despondent small-town sheriff
going up against the powerful developers who may have murdered a young woman
in his small
Carolina
town.
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THE HOUSE OF CHRISTINA – Simon & Schuster, 1977.
1st PB: Dell 13793, 1978.
Ben Haas died too young, but he
went out on a high note. After somewhere near 130 books over 15 years, Ben’s
final novel was one of his most successful, with a big paperback sale to Dell
Books. Ben Haas had died before this paperback edition was published.
THE HOUSE OF CHRISTINA is about
a young Austrian woman and the three men who love her: a bright American
writer, a dark Jewish underground fighter, and a proud and willful Nazi
officer. Great writing on a large canvas.
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2nd PB: Dell 13793, 1981.
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1st PB: Mayflower Granada 0 583 13046 1, 1978. Cover by Dave Pether. |
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