Harvard Press Plans New Reprint Editions For Historical Works

Important books in the field of American history that are now either out of print or very difficult to obtain will be made available at relatively low prices by the Harvard University Press.

Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who announced the plans yesterday, will be the editor-in-chief of the new series, which will be called "The John Harvard Library." Most of the books which the Press will reprint can be found now only in Widener, the Library of Congress, or special collections.

Funds for the project will come from the endowments of the Belknap Press, and will be used to print about five or six books a year. Among the works being considered for the first printing are Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Howard Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware, and William Stith's History of Virginia.