Publishers' Oscar

Publishers' Weekly's new Carey-Thomas Award* for good publishing -- "the creative idea, cooperation with the writer, careful production and imagination and successful marketing" -- was awarded for the first time last fortnight. It went to Manhattan publishers Farrar & Rinehart for their Rivers of America Series, of which last year's seven volumes (The Chicago by Harry Hansen; The St. Lawrence by Henry Beston; The Lower Mississippi by Hodding Carter ; The Allegheny by Frederick Way Jr. ; The Sangamon by Edgar Lee Masters; The Kentucky by T. D. Clark; The Wisconsin by August Derleth) were found by Judges Carl Carmer, Amy Loveman, Franklin Hopper, Lewis Gannett, Nicholas Wreden to be "the best example of creative publishing in the year 1942."

* Named after two early U.S. publishers, Mathew Carey of Philadelphia, Isaiah Thomas of Worcester.

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