 Mainly focusing on reprints, books like Jacques Maritain's "Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry" and Constantin Stanislavski's "My Life in Art" sold especially well.Yet the 1950s were the heyday of quality paperback presses, and Meridian competed fiercely with larger presses in the field, notably Doubleday and New American Library of World Literature.In 1960, Cohen sold Meridian Press to World Publishing, where he was also, briefly, an editor.