Books: Atheneum is rushing Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? into print for the Christmas trade, hard and paper-simultaneously…. Pyramid Books has issued an excellent series of studies under the general heading The Worlds of Science, handsome paperbacks, finely illustrated. Farb’s Living Earth, Ditmar’s Snakes of the World, Nourse’s Nine Planets, Gallenkamp’s Maya are among the rich offerings. All 75₵…. Thomas Molnar’s The Two Faces of American Foreign Policy, a study of “a basic weakness in our foreign policy, namely, that we present one picture to Americans and another for our allies, enemies, and neutrals, thus failing to understand the nature of power,” is to be published this month by Bobbs-Merrill…. The latest Edward Gorey drawings are to be found in John Ciardi’s You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You, a book of verses for children (Lippincott, $3.50)…. For fans of the early exploration of America, Harpercrest has issued a new edition of Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in the New World, Stars, Mosquitoes, and Crocodiles, $3.50.
Florence Becker Lennon’s Victoria Through the Looking-Glass of 1945 has been revised as The Life of Lewis Carroll and reissued as a Collier paperback for 95₵…. One of the meatiest medical books for laymen is Dr. Albert Simeons’ Man’s Presumptuous Brain (Dutton, $1.45), a study of psychosomatic ailments and how they happen…. And for the nostalgic and the newcomers to cozy books, Webster’s of St. Louis has brought out Ernest Thompson Seton’s Wild Animals I Have Known, albeit in an “adapted” edition for today’s wobbly literates.
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