Books published by publisher Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

From the Jacket Flap: "It is held throughout the Five Galaxies that the first sapient species - the Progenitors - arose billions of years ago. They bestowed the gift of intelligence upon countless other races, and then mysteriously disappeared into time and space. In their name, Uplift has become sacred tradition. Over the course of history, innumerable patron species have helped worthy pre-sentients take their place among the starring races. In return, the clients are indentured to their patrons for 100,000 years - modest payment for a priceless boon...."

Best in Children's Books, Volume 2 edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1957. The contents of Volume 2 include Aesop's Fables illustrated by Tony Palazzo; Houses Old and New written and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham; Jack and the Beanstalk edited by Mary Macnab and illustrated by Henry C. Pitz; Mr. Apple Names the Children written by Jean McDevitt and illustrated by Ninon; Goldilocks and the Three Bears illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; Best Loved Singing Games written by Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard illustrated by Polly Jackson; Lollypops and Automobiles and How They Are Made written by Mary Elting and illustrated by Leonard Kessler; Our Neighbors in Space written by Willy Ley and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell; Jerry and the Pony Express written by Sanford Tousey and illustrated by Walter Seaton; and This Is Holland with color photographs and an illustrative map. Best in Children's Books was a reading program for youngsters, for which a staff of experts assembled each month a collection of the world's best children's literature, old and new. These volumes, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, are packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections -- a wide variety of wholesome reading.

Kutath was an ancient world and a dying one. In ages past its best sons and daughters had gone to the stars to serve as mercenaries in the wars of aliens. Now the survivors of its star-flung people, the mri, had come back - in the form of a single woman, the last priestess-queen Melein, and a single man, the last warrior, Niun. And one other - the human Sten Duncan who had deserted Earth's military to swear service to the foes of his own species. Here is... an in-depth study of the last stand of an alien culture confronted with the devastating vengeance of two star-conquering races.

Anthology of children's stories. Contents: "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel DeFoe (abridged), illustrated by Edward Shenton; "Michael Who Missed His Train" by Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan, illustrated by Grace Paull; "The Princess on the Glass Hill" (Norse Folk Tale) illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith; "The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean" by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Idelette Bordigoni; "Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield" by Smith Burnham, illustrated by Polly Jackson; "Card Games Are Fun" by Alfred Sheinwold, illustrated by Andy Warhol; "Why Men Hunt Rocks" (no author noted), color photographs; "The Story of Chan Yuc" by Dorothy Rhoads, illustrated by Bobri; "Let's Go to Turkey" (no author noted), color photographs, full-color illustrated map.