Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What work by James Hilton became the first Pocket Book in 1939?"
...Hilton was born in 1900 in Leigh, Lacashire, England. Though he published over twenty successful novels, including "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "Random Harvest," his 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" is his most famous and commercially successful work. Hollywood took it to the big screen in 1937. Then, in 1939, "Lost Horizon" became the first book of any genre to be mass-produced in paperback format by Pocket Books. It became Pocket Book #1. Source: TheBestNotes.com