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==History==
===1949–1969===
Phil Hirsch was vice president of Pyramid Books from 1955 to 1975 and had his name as author or editor on many of Pyramid's books, many of them anthologies of jokes, cartoons and humor, or concerned with the military and warfare, including some which combined those interests.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.books.childrens/2006-08/msg00087.html |title=Happy 80th, Phil Hirsch! (war anthologies & joke books) |publisher=Newsgroups.derkeiler.com |date=2006-08-18 |access-date=2014-03-26 |archive-date=2012-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214154655/http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.books.childrens/2006-08/msg00087.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> While not the most prolific publisher of science fiction and fantasy during its years as Pyramid, it did offer some notable original titles in book form, such as [[Algis Budrys]]'s novel ''Who?'' (1958), [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s novel ''Venus Plus X'' (1960) and several collections of Sturgeon's short fiction, as well as collections, novels and anthologies by [[Harlan Ellison]] and [[Judith Merril]]. Pyramid speculative fiction editor (1957–67) [[Donald R. Bensen]] edited two notable and popular anthologies drawn from the fantasy-fiction magazine ''[[Unknown (magazine)|''Unknown'']],'' ''The Unknown'' (1963) and ''The Unknown 5'' (1964), the latter including an introduction by and a previously unpublished story by [[Isaac Asimov]], the story having been slated for publication by the magazine, which folded before it could appear. Pyramid in the 1960s also published several notable anthologies edited by [[L. Sprague de Camp]], which helped create a sense of a tradition of [[sword & sorcery]] fantasy, and a series of four anthologies drawn from the magazine ''[[Weird Tales]]'', attributed to magazine publisher and editor [[Leo Margulies]], though the latter two apparently "ghost-edited" by [[Sam Moskowitz]] (Margulies  and Moskowitz would in the 1970s launch a short-lived revival of the magazine). Among the notable paperback reprint editions Pyramid published in the 1950s and '60s were several collections by [[Robert Heinlein]], [[Hal Clement]]'s novel ''Mission of Gravity'', and de Camp and [[Fletcher Pratt]]'s ''The Incompleat Enchanter''. Pyramid also published [[Evan Hunter]]'s science fiction novel ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow'' (1956 as by Hunt Collins), and a paperback reprint of [[Shirley Jackson]]'s novel ''The Road through the Wall'' (1956) in two editions with the variant title ''The Other Side of the Street'' (the first in 1958). Notable among the original publications in crime fiction were ''Death is My Dancing Partner'' (1959), a late novel by [[Cornell Woolrich]], and such anthologies as ''The Young Punks'' (also 1959) attributed to Leo Margulies as editor.

In the 1960s Pyramid published two of the first three books attributed to [[Cordwainer Smith]], one of the fiction-writing pseudonyms of [[Paul Linebarger]], and began reprinting [[Fu Manchu]] novels by [[Sax Rohmer]] and pulp sf adventure novels by [[E. E. Smith]], as well as several [[novelization]]s of [[Irwin Allen]] television shows and films, including one for ''[[Lost in Space]]'' and two others for ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', and Sturgeon's movie novelization for ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''. Other original book publications in the 1960s included the first of [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]]'s [[Stainless Steel Rat]] novels (1961), [[Avram Davidson]]'s ''Masters of the Maze'' (1965) and [[Chester Anderson]]'s cult novel ''The Butterfly Kid'' (1967). Asimov and the biologist [[John C. Lilly]] were among those who published popular-science books with Pyramid in the 1960s. They have also the simplified English edition books published by their division Ladder Edition, example is “Battle Hymn” by Dean Hess (1956).

===1970–present===
Among the notable projects at Pyramid in the 1970s was a series of reprints of the pulp magazine novels and novellas about [[the Shadow]], published as by [[Maxwell Grant]]; Ellison in 1975 and '76 saw an eleven-volume set of his books reprinted or, in the cases of ''The Other Glass Teat'' and ''No Doors, No Windows'' (both 1975), published for the first time, in matching cover format featuring the art of [[Leo and Diane Dillon]]. Also, a brief "Harlan Ellison Discovery" series of books, as edited for Pyramid (and, for the last volume, Jove) by Ellison, featured [[Bruce Sterling]]'s first novel ''[[Involution Ocean]]'' (1977) and [[Terry Carr]]'s collection ''The Light at the End of the Universe'' (1976). But the most prominent and best-selling books Pyramid published in the 1970s were the series of historical novels written by [[John Jakes]], the [[Kent Family Chronicles]], beginning with ''The Bastard'' (1974), which were well-timed for popular interest in the U.S. [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] and the bicentennial celebration of independence. More modest or more critical than commercial successes published in the decade included ''Man on Fire: A Novel of Revolution'' by Bruce Douglas Reeves (1971) and several novels by [[Barry N. Malzberg]].

A series of "crossover" books, bridging prose fiction and [[comics]], was the eight-volume ''[[Weird Heroes]]'' series of anthologies and novels (1975–77), where new superheroes and pulp-magazine-style adventure heroes were featured, as edited for Pyramid by [[Byron Preiss]], and featuring contributions from, among others, Ellison, [[Philip José Farmer]], [[Jeffrey Catherine Jones|Jeff Jones]], [[Archie Goodwin (comics)|Archie Goodwin]], [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Beth Meacham]], [[Jim Steranko]], [[Ted White (author)|Ted White]] and novels as well as short fiction by [[Ron Goulart]]. Another Preiss project with Pyramid was in more-traditional, if early, [[graphic novel]] format, the ''[[Fiction Illustrated]]'' series.

The Jove branding was refocused not long after the purchase by the Putnam Berkeley Group, away from fantastic fiction generally and more toward crime fiction, further publication of John Jakes's and similar historical fiction, romance novels (including some with fantasy elements), and western series novels, such as the [[Longarm (book series)]] franchise; among the last notable fantasy-fiction titles as an HBJ/Jove Book was the 1979 variant edition of [[Robert Bloch]]'s collection ''Pleasant Dreams'', which varies in content from all previous editions (but like them, includes Bloch's fleshing out of an unfinished short story by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], originally published as "The Light-House" in 1953).

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