Box 108
154 photos
Reading Now
40 photos
Most-Favourited
4047 photos
Mysteries, bondage, drugs, GGA and cheesecake photos for the most part... but a few classics of 20th century literature. 10+ people had to mark the cover as a favourite to get into this set.
Top...
Most-Viewed
1088 photos
Not necessarily the most-favourited, these covers are the most-viewed. "What a Body" got picked up on a tumblr blog.; but I must admit it is a great cover! I have no idea why "The...
Anonymous Sleaze
43 photos
Back Covers
3623 photos
Bad Seed: JDs & Gangs
102 photos
Banned Books
23 photos
Barefoot Women
49 photos
Betty Brosmer & Bettie Page
38 photos
Biographies and Journals
223 photos
Bondage / Discipline Covers
133 photos
Book Marks
5 photos
Canadian Vintage Paperbacks
182 photos
Clowns and Carnivals
36 photos
Collecting Paperbacks
354 photos
I blame/credit Piet Schreuders for getting me started and hooked on this hobby. If I hadn't found his book in a remainder bin in a Toronto bookstore back in the mid-80s I would have just gone on...
Crime / Espionage Books
156 photos
Erotica
146 photos
Femme Fatale
1021 photos
A femme fatale is a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an...
French Books
226 photos
Gambling Covers
33 photos
Girls with Guns
160 photos
Great Book Titles
171 photos
Hard-Boiled Pulp
194 photos
While not a definitive list, these are some of the top, classic hard-boiled writers in my collection:
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
James M. Cain
Ross Macdonald
Richard Stark
David Goodis
Chester...
Heated Embraces
777 photos
Not all embraces are heated, but an embrace is a way of connecting with someone at a deeper level.
An embrace can be something as simple as a handshake. It can go beyond this into hugging of all...
Lesbian Pulp Fiction
440 photos
This set is dedicated to Jaye Zimet (1961 – 2004) and her book “Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949 – 1969”
www.strangesisters.com/index.htm
In 1950, twelve years after...
Lusty Pulp
145 photos
Magazine Covers
95 photos
Media Tie-in Covers
399 photos
Moderate Fronts
5 photos
Moderate front views.
Moderate Rears
3 photos
Moderate rear views.
Needles & Drugs
65 photos
Non-Fiction
195 photos
Nurse Pulp
42 photos
Nymphos
100 photos
Overrated Books
29 photos
Paperback Artwork & Photos
62 photos
Peepers
47 photos
Photo Covers
480 photos
Photos of Authors
375 photos
Pin-Ups & GGA
1644 photos
Pop Culture
455 photos
Various uploaded images that needed a home.
Pseudonymity
739 photos
Pseudonyms, pen names, noms de plume - whatever you want to call them authors have been using them since the early 16th century. Originally used in England and France to disguise true identity to...
Pulp Digests
148 photos
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Pulp Virgins
45 photos
Retitled for Paperback
502 photos
Book titles, another product of the author’s creativity, are vulnerable to reprinter remodelling. Title changes from the original hardcover edition to softcovers are today much less common. In the...
SciFi & Fantasy Pulp
484 photos
Sin-a-Rama: 60s Sleaze
2660 photos
This Sin-a-Rama set is dedicated to the eponymous book "Sin-a-Rama...Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties", edited by Brittany A. Daley
A fabulous collection of sleaze cover art with...
Skinny Dipping
29 photos
Sleaze on Campus
57 photos
Smoking Gun
48 photos
Smokin' Hot
234 photos
Twin Covers
586 photos
"Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up."
— Wally Wood (writer, scripter, cartoonist, penciller, inker,...
Unknown Artists
1663 photos
Time to share your knowledge or play detective. Help identify the artists of these covers.
Thanks
Vintage Advice
122 photos
Wanton Women
55 photos
Western Pulp Fiction
242 photos
Widows
20 photos
Women in Peril
620 photos
Working Girls
354 photos
World War - I & II
141 photos
My Favourites
44 photos
My favourites from my collection of paperback covers... the selection changes periodically.
My Favourites II
30 photos
More of my favourite cover art.
Endpapers & Colophons
16 photos
CD Covers
4 photos
Album Covers
1 photo
Robert Abbett Covers
46 photos
Robert Kennedy Abbett (b. 1926, Hammond, Indiana) is an American artist and illustrator. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers...
Norman Adams Covers
8 photos
Tom Adams Covers
7 photos
Bill Alexander Covers
24 photos
Bill Alexander was an African-American illustrator about whom virtually nothing is known. He worked and was friends with Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew (also African-American) in NYC.
Jerry Allison Covers
17 photos
Born and raised in Harlansburg, Pennsylvania, he became an employee of the Pennsylvania Power Company before he left for New York at age 20, to study art. He studied at the Woodstock Summer School...
George Alvara Covers
3 photos
Charles Andres Covers
3 photos
Ray App Covers
4 photos
David Attie Covers
5 photos
James Avati Covers
92 photos
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/nyregion/the-painting-world-of...
www.cubra.nl/avati/jamesavatiinterviewedschildersenglish....
Paul Bacon Studios
25 photos
James Bama Covers
17 photos
James Bama was born in 1926 and grew up in the Northeast. He followed his early interest in art through New York’s specialized High School of Music and Art and the Art Students League. As a...
Fred Banbery Covers
2 photos
Hunter Barker Covers
3 photos
Bernard Barton Covers
10 photos
Harry Barton Covers
68 photos
Harry L. Barton, Jr. was born May 12, 1908 in Seattle, Washington.
He graduated Seattle's Broadway High School in 1926 and began to work as a commercial artist in a sign shop.
After marrying his...
Basile Associates Covers
2 photos
Saul Bass Covers
7 photos
Walter Baumhofer Covers
3 photos
Pauline Baynes Covers
10 photos
C.C. Beall Covers
4 photos
Aubrey Beardsley Covers
6 photos
Cecil Beaton Covers
4 photos
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE Kt (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an...
Sheilah Beckett Covers
6 photos
Rudolph Belarski Covers
108 photos
Rudolph Belarski (born 27 May 1900 in Dupont, Pennsylvania - died 24 December 1983) was a renowned artist of pulp magazine, paperback and men's adventure magazine covers.
Belarski’s professional...
Ruth Belew Mapbacks
179 photos
Harry Bennett Covers
63 photos
Harry Bennett (1919 - 2012)
Harry Bennett passed away November 29,...
Jim Bentley Covers
2 photos
JIM BENTLEY
(1922-2003)
James William Bentley was born May 16, 1922 in Patchogue, NY, on Long Island.
In 1950 he signed up for a correspondence art course from Art Instruction, Inc. of Minneapolis,...
Earle Bergey Covers
19 photos
EARLE BERGEY (1901-1952)
www.americanartarchives.com/bergey.htm
"Earle" Bergey was born Earl Kulp Bergey on August 26, 1901 in Philadelphia, PA.
He finished high school in 1919, but he...
Oliver Bevan Covers
4 photos
J. Biernacki Covers
2 photos
Gene Bilbrew Artwork
79 photos
Gene Bilbrew (1923 - 1974)
Bilbrew was a Los Angeles-born illustrator also known as Van Rod, Bondy and "ENEG" (his first name spelt backwards).
He began his fetish comic work in the late...
Charles Binger Covers
74 photos
Charles Ashford Binger (1907 - 1974)
Born in London, England on October 12th, 1907. His grandparents emigrated from Russia to England where they established a fine tailoring and dressmaking...
Derek Birdsall Covers
13 photos
Herman Bischoff Covers
8 photos
Herman Bischof f , Cincinnati Artist Herman Bischoff, 72, Cincinnati-born artist, died Monday at his retirement home in Fairhope, Ala. A native of Clifton and graduate of Hughes High School and the...
Wayne Blickenstaff Covers
5 photos
Blickenstaff, born June 25th, 1920, in Pomona, California, attended Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles and then joined the U.S. Air Corps in 1942. He flew 133 combat missions with the 353rd...
Carl Bobertz Covers
17 photos
Carl Bobertz (1899 - 1974)
Robert Bonfils Covers
175 photos
Robert Bonfils started his illustration career in Chicago in the mid 1950s, doing various commercial art assignments such as advertisements, decorations, illustrations and magazine, record and book...
Stanley Borack Covers
46 photos
Stanley Borack (1927-1993)
Stanley Borack is a realistic oil painter of the Old West--Indians, troopers, cowboys, and mountain men. He was born in New York City in 1927. "I've always loved a...
Hieronymus Bosch Covers
9 photos
Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus (or Joen, respectively the Latin and Middle Dutch form of the name "Jerome") van Aken (meaning "from Aachen"). He signed a number of his...
Carl Bower Covers
3 photos
Oliver Brabbins Covers
6 photos
Harry Bremner Covers
4 photos
Walter Brooks Covers
29 photos
Reynold Brown Covers
12 photos
William Reynold Brown (1917 1991) was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every facet of the illustration field. During his life he produced work for the newspaper comics...
Al Brulé Covers
16 photos
Al Brule (? – 2001)
Brule was a Chicago illustrator whose style, with its painterly technique and strong primary colors, closely resembled that of the Sundblom circle. During the 1940s and the...
Virgil Burnett Covers
2 photos
Ann Cantor Covers
27 photos
Ann Cantor owned Ann Cantor Art Studios in New York. She was previously employed by J. Walter Thompson Advertising. Ann Cantor Studios did a number of paperback covers for Avon Books in the late...
Joseph Caroff Covers
5 photos
Eddie Chan Covers
3 photos
Milton Charles Covers
3 photos
Samuel Cherry Covers
14 photos
(1903-1975)
Samuel Joseph Cherry was born October 16, 1903 in the Bronx.
In 1916, when Sam Cherry was thirteen years old, he entered a local art contest and won a prize of a brand new one dollar...
Ernest Chiriacka Covers
91 photos
Ernest (Darcy) Chiriacka (1913 - 2010)
Anastassios Kyriakakos was born in New York City on May 11, 1913. His parents were Greek immigrants, Portia and Herakles Kyriakakos. They came to America in...
Seymour Chwast Covers
10 photos
Seymour Chwast - Born 1931, Bronx, New York
It would be difficult to imagine contemporary American and European graphic design and illustration without the presence of Seymour Chwast.
By the middle...
Edgard Cirlin Covers
5 photos
Edgard Cirlin
Born January 16, 1913 in Montreal, Canada; Cirlin's family moved to Detroit when he was young, and he attended Cass Technical High School there. After graduation, he studied at a...
Ted CoConis Covers
15 photos
Ted CoConis was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago during his grade school years, but instead of working toward academic success, he abandoned his formal education, added a few...
L.B. Cole Covers
4 photos
Chet Collom Covers
7 photos
More info here: efanzines.com/EK/eI18/#chet
Charles Copeland Covers
18 photos
William Cotton Covers
2 photos
William Cotton (1880-1958)
illustrationart.blogspot.com/2010/01/william-cotton-1880-...
Frank Cozzarelli Covers
4 photos
unobtainium13.com/2018/07/09/artist-profile-frank-cozzare...
Mel Crair Covers
6 photos
Robert Crowl Covers
6 photos
George Cruikshank Covers
6 photos
Gilbert Darling Covers
2 photos
Isabel Dawson Covers
3 photos
Dan DeCarlo Art
11 photos
Donato Salvatore DeCarlo (1919 - 2001)
Obituary in NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/nyregion/dan-decarlo-archie-ar...
Eldon Dedini Covers
3 photos
Bio:
www.tcj.com/viewing-life-through-a-twinkle/?fbclid=IwAR0F...
Ric Del Rossi Covers
2 photos
Rafael DeSoto Covers
55 photos
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. His parents were Milagros and Domingo DeSoto, a noble Spanish banking family descended from the famous...
Jean des Vignes Covers
5 photos
Leo & Diane Dillon Covers
22 photos
leo-and-diane-dillon.blogspot.com/search/label/Bantam
Bob Doares Covers
3 photos
Irv Docktor Covers
7 photos
Howell Dodd Covers
7 photos
Clarence Doore Covers
4 photos
Willard Downes Covers
19 photos
Willard Downes (1908 - 2000)
Downes was born in Washington and grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He went to New York City at age 17 to pursue a career as an artist. He spent more than 40 years...
Peter Driben Covers
9 photos
Elaine Duillo Covers
14 photos
John Duillo Covers
8 photos
Tom Dunn Covers
27 photos
Tom Dunn (1922 - )
Born near Gravesend Bay, NY and moved to nearby Belford at age 5.
He studied at Villanova University from 1939 until the US entered WWII when he joined the Marines.
He was...
Norm Eastman Covers
11 photos
Sid Dyke Covers
8 photos
Bill Edwards Covers
35 photos
Bill Edwards painted sleaze covers for Sanford Aday's imprints 'Fabian', 'Saber' and 'Vega'. From the early 60s until the early 70s Edwards accomplished over a hundred covers for Aday. He...
William A. Edwards Covers
9 photos
Freeman Elliott Covers
9 photos
Born in 1922 in a suburb of Chicago, Elliott apprenticed at the Stevens/Gross studio, where he had the opportunity to learn from Gil Elvgren, Joyce Ballantyne, Al Buell, and Haddon Sundblom. Shortly...
Dean Ellis Covers
4 photos
Dean Ellis (1920 - 2009)
Ellison Covers
3 photos
Ed Emshwiller Covers
22 photos
Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was born February 16, 1925 in Lansing, Michigan.
By 1940 his family had moved to Richmond, Virginia.
After the war he attended college and graduated in 1948. He went to...
Mort Engel Covers
15 photos
Bill English Covers
5 photos
Renaldo Epworth Covers
4 photos
George Erickson Covers
12 photos
Hans Erni Covers
2 photos
Max Ernst Covers
4 photos
Ertag Covers
1 photo
Jack Faragasso Covers
19 photos
Pierre Faucheux Covers
20 photos
designobserver.com/feature/pierre-faucheux-and-le-livre-d...
John Fernie Covers
10 photos
John Fernie (1919 - 2001)
John A. Fernie was born in Dundee, Scotland on December 17, 1919. His formal art training started at Manchester University, England and included a short period at Glasgow...
Bob Fink Covers
3 photos
Halleck Finley Covers
3 photos
Fred Fixler Covers
25 photos
www.efanzines.com/EK/eI19/index.htm#unmasked
Bill Fleming Covers
10 photos
John Floherty Jr. Covers
9 photos
Lucien Fontanarosa Covers
11 photos
www.fontanarosa.com/v2/en_html/milieu_vie4_05.html
Gino Forté Covers
2 photos
Robert Foster Covers
3 photos
Henry Fox Covers
2 photos
Griffith Foxley Covers
32 photos
Griffith Foxley
Art director for the magazine 'SPORT'; one cover produced for that magazine was also used as a paperback cover by Bantam (Bantam #505 'Babe Ruth"; SPORT May 1948).
Between 1949...
Charles Fracé Covers
3 photos
Antonio Frasconi Covers
3 photos
Renato Fratini Covers
2 photos
Frank Frazetta Covers
6 photos
Kelly Freas Covers
15 photos
George A. Frederiksen Covers
28 photos
Friede Covers
3 photos
Elizabeth Friedlander Covers
5 photos
W. P. Frith Covers
5 photos
William Powell Frith
(19 January 1819 – 9 November 1909)
Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to...
William Frost Covers
14 photos
Often credited as William Forrest, a pseudonym he, or Avon, apparently used.
S. Neil Fujita
4 photos
Gilbert Fullington Covers
6 photos
Hector Garrido Covers
23 photos
Hector Garrido is an Argentinian-born American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of...
Jack Gaughan Covers
11 photos
William George Covers
31 photos
William George is a world-famous illustrator who studied with Norman Rockwell and began his career painting covers for magazines such as Argosy, Cavalier and Zane Grey's Western Magazine.
He has...
George Geygan Covers
9 photos
F. Kenwood Giles
13 photos
Denver Gillen Covers
12 photos
Denver Laredo Gillen (1914 – 1975)
Jenifer Gillen Cohn: "I wish I could tell you I had memories of the outline of Denver's early life. Although he talked about his career as an illustrator, I...
Louis Glanzman Covers
13 photos
Glanzman was born in 1922, raised in the farmlands of Virginia; he is a self educated artist. He began his career at the age of sixteen as a comic book illustrator. In the 40's he served as an...
Milton Glaser Covers
43 photos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DO7T7ZxYA
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designer in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art...
Everett Lyle Glover Covers
2 photos
Everett Lyle Glover
BIRTH: 1921
DEATH: 1988 (aged 66–67)
BURIAL: Little Lake Cemetery
Peterborough, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
Basil Gogos Covers
4 photos
(March 12, 1929 - September 13, 2017) Gogos, of whom little was revealed until his death of coronary heart disease, was born March 12, 1929 in Alexandria, Egypt, to parents of Greek ethnic ancestry....
Len Goldberg Covers
4 photos
A. Gonzales Covers
7 photos
Edward Gorey Covers
4 photos
Ed Grant Covers
3 photos
Simon Greco Covers
4 photos
Simon Greco worked on illustrations for TWA's 1952 calendar - www.umkc.edu/whmckc/twa/TWASkyliner/TWASkyliner1950s/TWAS...
Darrell Greene Covers
9 photos
Born: 1917 - Magrath, Alberta, Canada
Died: 2014 - Forest Hills, New York
Known for: Freelance illustration, book cover art, portrait painting, posters
Name variants: Jesse Darrell Greene
Terence Greer Covers
4 photos
Bill Gregg Covers
4 photos
Gerald Gregg Covers
199 photos
Gerald Gregg (1907 - 1985)
Born January 25, 1907 in Lamar, Colorado, Gregg attended Racine High School in Wisconsin until 1925, when he won second prize in a poster designing contest and was advised...
Leon Gregori Covers
5 photos
John Griffiths Covers
4 photos
William Grimmond Covers
5 photos
Grimshaw Covers
4 photos
George Gross Covers
33 photos
GEORGE GROSS
(1909-2003)
George Gross was born February 16, 1909 in Brooklyn. His parents, David and Serena Gross, were both young Jewish immigrants from the city of Szeged, Hungary. His father...
Philip Grushkin Covers
3 photos
Alan Harmon Covers
4 photos
Hatfield Covers
2 photos
Raymond Hawkey Covers
8 photos
Reginald Heade Covers
14 photos
Reginald Heade was born Reginald Cyril Webb in Plaistow, Essex, in the fourth quarter of 1901. He was an illustrator best known for his lurid pulp paperback covers. In the 1940s and '50s he also...
John Healey Covers
14 photos
John Healey was best known for the lesbian covers he painted. Healey's trademark was to paint two or more women on a bed or framed within a sparse background. His women were often a bit plump, and he...
Michael Herring Covers
3 photos
Bob Hilbert Covers
13 photos
Produced nine covers for Dell and several more for Pocket Books between 1949 and 1953
Other great examples of his art can be found here:
americangallery.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/robert-hilbert/
James Hill Covers
36 photos
James Hill (1930 - 2004)
Born 1930 Hamilton, Ont. ; died 2004 Toronto, Ont.
One of Canada's most talented illustrators: fiction, book covers, portraits and landscapes. He drew many of the covers for...
H. Lawrence Hoffman Covers
51 photos
H. Lawrence Hoffman (? - 1976)
He was a designer and illustrator of innumerable paperback covers in a wide variety of styles.
He began his career doing drawings for the pulp magazine 'Thrilling...
Bill Hofmann Covers
2 photos
Paul Hogarth Covers
30 photos
Mitchell Hooks Covers
78 photos
Born in 1923 in Detroit, Mitchell Hooks attended Cass Technical High School.
He made illustrations for books and magazines and, beginning around 1950, he drew paperback covers for Avon, Bantam,...
Clark Hulings Covers
30 photos
Clark Hulings (1922 - 2011)
Clark Hulings was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey. He resided in New York, Louisiana, and throughout Europe before settling in Santa Fe, NM in 1972....
Stan Hunter Covers
2 photos
Manuel Isip Covers
2 photos
William George Jacobson Covers
16 photos
Made covers for Dell during the years 1947 - 1951
Bill Johnson Covers
2 photos
Ray Johnson Covers
166 photos
Ray Johnson is one of the unsung masters of vintage paperback illustration having painted the lion's share of the original Avon paperbacks before moving to Popular Library where he also painted...
David McCall Johnston Covers
3 photos
David McCall Johnston ( 1940 - )
"Born in South Bend, Indiana. After completing his studies with honors at the Art Center College of Design in California where he studied with Joseph Henninger...
Robert Jonas Covers
70 photos
Robert Jonas (1907 - 1997)
Jonas was born in New York and attended the Fawcett Art School in Newark, NJ. After working several factory jobs he began studying at NYU, supporting himself by working in...
Casey Jones Covers
11 photos
Jeff Jones Covers
5 photos
S.B. Jones Covers
7 photos
Frank Kalan Covers
3 photos
Victor Kalin Covers
96 photos
Born in Belleville, Kansas, in 1919, Kalin graduated from the University of Kansas in 1941, where he taught drawing and painting for the next year. During World War II he was a field correspondent...
Owen Kampen Covers
19 photos
Morgan Kane Covers
7 photos
Karol Covers
5 photos
Roger Kastel Covers
12 photos
E. McKnight Kauffer Covers
3 photos
Van Kaufman Covers
4 photos
Cecil Keeling Covers
2 photos
Roswell Keller Covers
3 photos
Harvey Kidder Covers
7 photos
Lu Kimmel Covers
20 photos
Lu Kimmel, born in 1905, was an illustrator of the 1930s through the 1960s. His style reflects the period he worked in but was overshadowed by his famous contemporaries such as Howard Pyle, N.C....
Everett Raymond Kinstler
7 photos
Warren King Covers
2 photos
Paul Klee Covers
3 photos
Lester Kohs Covers
4 photos
Sanford Kossin Covers
14 photos
Paul Kresse Covers
3 photos
Bernard Krigstein Covers
1 photo
Roy Kuhlman Covers
5 photos
Mort Künstler Covers
4 photos
Born in 1931, Mort Künstler studied art at Brooklyn College, UCLA, and the Pratt Institute. After he left school, he became a successful illustrator in New York, freelancing for book and magazine...
Saul Lambert Covers
15 photos
Roy Lance Covers
5 photos
Bert Lannon Covers
6 photos
Bob Larkin Covers
4 photos
Paul Lehr Covers
2 photos
John Leone Covers
5 photos
Sergio Leone Covers
46 photos
Ron Lesser Covers
29 photos
While growing up, Ron Lesser was recognized for his artistic potential. He was admitted into New York's High School of Music and Art and later the Pratt Institute of Art and the Art Students League,...
Saul Levine Covers
11 photos
Frank Lieberman Covers
4 photos
Muni Lieblein Covers
2 photos
Oscar Liebman Covers
35 photos
Oscar Liebman was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. In high school, Oscar won a scholarship to the Art Student League, where he studied with such masters as William E. McNulty, George Gross, and...
Victor Livoti Covers
4 photos
Victor Livoti, of Norwalk, passed away on March 23, 2009, after a long illness. Born in New York City on April 1, 1923, he was the son of the late Francis A. and Mary Marinelli Livoti.
Mr. Livoti...
Daniel Louradour
4 photos
Lowenbein Covers
3 photos
Michael Lowenbein?
Mike Ludlow Covers
20 photos
Ludlow was born in 1921 and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended the Art Students League, where he studied with William McNulty. His first commercial art assignment, for the Sunday supplement of...
Dom Lupo Covers
8 photos
Robert Maguire Covers
238 photos
Robert A. Maguire (August 3, 1921 - February 26, 2005), or R. A. Maguire, was a twentieth century American illustrator and fine artist. Known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art, he has...
Leo Manso Covers
17 photos
Leo Manso (1914 - 1993)
Manso did numerous paperback covers for Pocket Books between 1943 and 1945.
NYT Obituary:
Leo Manso, an abstract painter and collagist, died on Friday at his home in...
Lou Marchetti
44 photos
loumarchetti.com/index.html
Phil Marini Covers
7 photos
Phil Marini drew covers for Dell Books and Dell's 'Zane Grey's Western Magazine' between 1952 and 1955. He also did the Cover of Max Brand's 'The Gun Tamer' for Pocket Books in 1954.
In the 60s he...
Pierre Martinot Covers
2 photos
John Alan Maxwell Covers
7 photos
Earl Mayan Covers
13 photos
EARL MAYAN
(1916-2009)
Earl Eugene Mayan was born June 19, 1916 in Hempstead, Long Island, NY.
In 1933 he studied for four years at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. There he met Edd Cartier and H....
George Mayers Covers
25 photos
Mayers, George H. (1920-1987)
Born in 1920 in Woodbury, New Jersey, George H. Mayers attended Pennsylvania State University and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1942.
Mr. Mayers...
Frank McCarthy Covers
14 photos
Frank McCarthy (1924 — 2002)
A prolific American artist and realist painter renowned for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West.
Born...
James Derrett McCarthy Covers
4 photos
James Derrett McCarthy (1927-1982). A graduate of the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), he was a commercial artist whose work could also be seen on Canadian paperback covers like...
Harold McCauley Covers
34 photos
Harold William McCauley was born July 11, 1913 in Chicago
In 1927, at the age of fourteen, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with J. Allen St. John, who inspired him with an interest in...
Gerald McConnell Covers
3 photos
John McDermott Covers
11 photos
Robert McGinnis Covers
214 photos
Inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1993, Robert McGinnis, for two generations has interpreted the story lines and mythical characters of such authors as Erle Stanley Gardner,...
James Meese Covers
73 photos
James Meese (1917 - 1971)
James Alfred Meese was active/lived in United States.
Stanley Meltzoff Covers
24 photos
Stanley Meltzoff (1917 - 2006)
(www.stanleymeltzoff.com/Bio.html)
was one of America's foremost artists and illustrators of the 20th century. Born in New York, his father Nathan was a cantor at a...
Fred Meyer Covers
2 photos
Bob Meyers Covers
5 photos
Clement Micarelli Covers
9 photos
Clement Micarelli was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island and studied art at both The Pratt Institute and The Art Student’s League. Micarelli started his career as a commercial illustrator...
Tom Miller Covers
23 photos
Paperback cover artist and painter Thomas John Miller was born in Midland, Ontario in Canada on July 26, 1913. He remained a Canadian citizen for most of his life. Tom's parents died when he was...
Darrel Millsap Covers
7 photos
Milo Covers
7 photos
Don Milsop Covers
3 photos
Bruce Minney Covers
9 photos
Al Moore Covers
3 photos
Carl Mueller Covers
5 photos
Edvard Munch Covers
9 photos
Rudy Nappi Covers
41 photos
Rudy Nappi (b. 1923)
Rudy Nappi was the principal cover artist for the US Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series in the 1950s through to the late 1970s. His portrayals of the three main characters was...
Albert Nuetzel Covers
3 photos
Len Oehmen Covers
3 photos
Victor Olson Covers
19 photos
Ivan Victor Olson
(Aug 4 1927 - Jun 22 2007)
Victor Olson, of Fanton Meadows, West Redding, Connecticut, was a well known, award-winning Fairfield County artist, as well as an illustrator and...
Rafael Palacios Covers
5 photos
Julian Paul Covers
9 photos
Margaret Paull Covers
23 photos
Margaret Paull (1920 - 2008)
Margaret Paull was one of the few women to work in paperback publishing in the 1940s. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art (now OCA and Design), she joined Toronto's...
Raymond Pease Covers
14 photos
Harri Peccinotti Covers
11 photos
Samuel Peffer Covers
2 photos
David Pelham Covers
7 photos
Bob Pepper Covers
4 photos
Perlowen Covers
3 photos
Fred Pfeiffer Covers
2 photos
Baryé Phillips Covers
181 photos
Barye Winchell Phillips (1924 - 1969)
Usually signed "Baryé"; sometimes "BP".
Although most associated with Fawcett Gold Medal, Phillips also created covers for Avon, Bantam,...
"Phillips" Covers
2 photos
Phillips & Troeger Covers
8 photos
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Jerome Podwil Covers
20 photos
Samson Pollen Covers
13 photos
Walter Popp Covers
33 photos
WALTER POPP - (1920 - 2002)
www.americanartarchives.com/popp.htm
Walter Robert Popp was born on May 19, 1920 in New York City.
He graduated Hoboken High School in June of 1938 then studied art at...
Jerry Powell Covers
2 photos
Richard Powers Covers
85 photos
Edwin John Prittie
6 photos
Albert Pucci Covers
16 photos
Albert John Pucci
(1920 - 2005)
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 11, 1920. He moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of three and would live in Brooklyn Heights for the next 80...
Don Punchatz Covers
3 photos
Push Pin Studios
16 photos
Together with Reynold Ruffins and Edward Sorel, Seymour Chwast produced a promotional piece designed to show prospective clients that ideas were as central to design and illustration as was...
Paul Rader Covers
134 photos
Isaac Paul Rader (1906-1986)
Check List:
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www.lynn-munroe-books.com/list55/atmidwood.htm
Unjustly forgotten today by the art world in...
Bill Randall Covers
14 photos
Lawrence Ratzkin Covers
3 photos
Charles Raymond Covers
3 photos
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Odilon Redon Covers
3 photos
Doug Rickard Covers
9 photos
Doug Rickard was an illustrator of Canadian paperbacks in the 1940s and early 50s. He/she signed their work "DR" "R" and "Rickard".
Ken Riley Covers
3 photos
Fred Rodewald Covers
5 photos
Fred Charles Rodewald (1905 - 1955)
Frederick Charles Rodewald was born in 1905 in Hanover, Germany. His family moved to the United States in 1912; they settled in Hoboken, New Jersey.
In 1920 he...
Herbert Roese Covers
5 photos
Félicien Rops - (1833 – 1898)
1 photo
Félicien Rops was a Belgian artist who spent most of his life in Paris. He worked in many mediums and was also a master printmaker utilizing various techniques. He was one of the first modern...
William Rose Covers
18 photos
William Rose
(1909 - )
If Rose had done nothing more than movie posters for RKO, he'd be remembered. His movie assignments were for some of Hollywood's most important pictures, from film noir to...
A. Leslie Ross Covers
12 photos
A. LESLIE ROSS (1910-1989)
Arthur Leslie Ross, Jr. was born December 4, 1910 in West Orange, New Jersey.
After graduating from West Orange High School in June of 1928 he went to work at a printing...
Clyde Ross Covers
5 photos
Al Rossi Covers
19 photos
George Rozen Covers
10 photos
GEORGE ROZEN
(1895-1973)
George Jerome Rozen was born October 16, 1895 in Chicago.
In 1918 George was drafted into the Army for the World War and was assigned to the Telegraphy Signal...
Hy Rubin Covers
3 photos
Hiram Rubin (1905-1960)
Aliases: Hy Rubin
Professions: Illustrator; Cartoonist
Bernard Safran Covers
11 photos
Bernard Safran (1924-1995) was an American high realist painter known for his penetrating portraits.
Safran went to New York's famed High School of Music and Art from 1936 to 1939. Some notable...
George Salter Covers
11 photos
Georg (George) Salter (1897 – 1967)
Salter was born in Bremen, the child of a Hamburg musician. In the year of his birth. With his parents and three siblings he moved to Berlin. After finishing...
Sanjulian
7 photos
Arthur Sarnoff Covers
4 photos
Norman Saunders Covers
19 photos
Harry Schaare Covers
35 photos
Harry Schaare was born in New York in 1923. He studied at NYU's School of Architecture and at the Pratt Institute. Following World War II he graduated from Pratt and began his own studio. He...
Bob Schinella Covers
4 photos
Al Schmidt Covers
3 photos
Alex Schomburg Covers
3 photos
Robert Schulz Covers
38 photos
Schulz, Robert Emil
Birthplace: Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
Born: 22 April 1928
Died: April 1978
He earned a degree in architecture from Princeton and studied art with illustrator Frank Reilly...
Daniel Schwartz Covers
3 photos
Laurence Schwinger Covers
3 photos
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Earl Sherwan Covers
16 photos
Earl Sherwan (1917 - 2002)
Born in Wisconsin, Earl studied ar the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee.
In 1946 he was hired by the Western Printing & Lithographing Company in Racine. Western were...
Tommy Shoemaker Covers
4 photos
Some interesting biographical details here:
todaysinspiration.blogspot.ca/2009/12/tom-shoemaker-and-m...
Bill Shoyer Covers
7 photos
Joe Shuster (JOSH) Artwork
2 photos
Silver Studio Covers
17 photos
Silver Studios was a commercial photography firm founded by brothers Henry and Stanley Silver in NYC.
During the early '50s the Silver brothers provided photos for many Pocket Books covers and for...
Charles Skaggs Covers
5 photos
Robert Skemp Covers
10 photos
Robert Skemp (1910 - 1984) was born in born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.
A member of the Sundblom school of illustration, he first attended the Art Students League in New York in 1928-29, then went...
Sloan(e) Covers
11 photos
Chuck Smith Covers
2 photos
Ed Smith Covers
3 photos
Malcolm Smith Covers
4 photos
Murray Smith Covers
1 photo
Murray Smith ranks third behind Margaret Paull (67) and John Fernie (22) with 10 signed covers for the 1940s Canadian paperback line White Circle. They are all from 1949 to early 1951, towards the...
Paul Anna Soik Covers
8 photos
Paul Anna Soik (1919 - 1999)
Son of Paul and Anna Soik (Belorussian) he was born (1919) and died (1999) in New Jersey and served in the American Armed Forces during WWII. He started working for...
Ben Stahl Covers
13 photos
Ben Stahl (1910-1987)
Painter, author, illustrator, and lecturer, Ben Stahl won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago at age 12.
At 16, Stahl had work accepted for the International...
Paul Stahr Covers
23 photos
Paul C. Stahr (1883–1953)
An American illustrator who created many posters and magazine covers, particularly for Pulps. He also did a number of covers for Avon Books in the 1940s.
Paul Stahr...
"Stake" Covers
5 photos
Robert Stanley Covers
218 photos
Robert Stanley (1918-1996).
From Dare to Judge This Book: "By far the most prolific Dell artist — next to Gerald Gregg — was Robert Stanley. Stanley worked for Dell from 1950 to 1959 and...
Eric Stanton Artwork
63 photos
"A woman has to be strong. The bigger the better." - Eric Stanton
www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/64277-eric-stanton-vinta...
Modest Stein Covers
2 photos
Modska Aronstam (Modest Stein), an anarchist artist who lived in a ménage a trois with Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, his first cousin, arrived in Pittsburgh on July 25, 1892 to assassinate...
Isador Steinberg Covers
6 photos
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Carl Stricker Covers
2 photos
William Strohmer Covers
15 photos
Art Sussman Covers
23 photos
Arthur Sussman (1927 - 2008)
Arthur Sussman was born in Brooklyn, NY and completed his BFA at Syracuse University. After graduation, he worked in NYC for more than 10 years as a designer and...
Gene Szafran Covers
6 photos
April 11, 1941 - Jan. 8, 2011
Gene Szafran was born in Hamtramck,
Michigan. He attended The College for
Creative Studies and Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, where he later taught.
He was...
William Teason Covers
44 photos
William Ira Teason (1922 - 2003)
The first freelance job Bill received in 1951 was from Sudler and Hennessey for Lederle Laboratories. He was paid $475 for doing three comps and the finished art...
Howard Terpning Covers
8 photos
Giovanni Thermes Covers
2 photos
Maurice Thomas Covers
6 photos
John Thompson Covers
3 photos
Jack Thurston Covers
4 photos
Murray Tinkelman Covers
2 photos
Gilbert Tompkins
3 photos
Verne Tossey Covers
14 photos
Born March 29, 1920 in Detroit; died 2002.
He studied for four years with Frank Reilly at the Art Students League of New York.
He began is career painting a cover for a Doubleday adventure story in...
Miriam Troop Covers
4 photos
Alex Tsao Covers
7 photos
J.M.W. Turner Covers
6 photos
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(April 23, 1775 - December 19, 1851)
There is no record of Turner's actual date of birth, which was sometime between late April and early May of 1775. The artist...
Frank Uppwall Covers
3 photos
Ed Valigursky Covers
22 photos
Tony Varady Covers
9 photos
Al Wagner Covers
4 photos
Richard Waldrep Covers
9 photos
Highly acclaimed for his artistic versatility, Richard Waldrep studied art at the University of Georgia and was a 15-year partner at Eucalyptus Tree Studio in Baltimore before setting out as a...
Bill Ward Art
50 photos
Bill Ward's long, prolific pin-up career began during World War II when he created a curvy distraction named Torchy for his fellow soldiers. His taste for impossibly buxom blondes—teetering on...
Doug Weaver Covers
22 photos
Little is known about Weaver. More info here:
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Bill Wenzel Covers
18 photos
Harry Willock Covers
3 photos
George Wilson Covers
3 photos
Kirk Wilson Covers
2 photos
Lumen Winter Covers
2 photos
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William Wirtz Covers
8 photos
Bertrand Wolpe Covers
5 photos
Milton Wolsky Covers
2 photos
1916, Omaha, Nebraska – 1981, Omaha, Nebraska
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Wally Wood Covers
2 photos
Miriam Woods Covers
2 photos
Stanley Wyatt Covers
7 photos
George Ziel Covers
26 photos
Jerzy Zielezinski (1914 - 1982)
Biography:
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Checklist:
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Stanley Zuckerberg Covers
32 photos
Stanley M. Zuckerberg (1919-1995).
Devoted to realism in art and his subjects for pleasure were frequently the peaceful waterfront of New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Raised on the...
Ace Books
201 photos
Started in business:1953
Ace Books was founded in 1953 by A. A. Wyn and is the oldest continuously operating science fiction publisher in the United States. With Donald A. Wollheim as editor it...
After Hours Books
25 photos
Airmont Books
11 photos
Albatross Books
6 photos
Albatross Books was a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern mass market paperback books.
Albatross was founded in 1932 by John Holroyd-Reece, Max Wegner and Kurt...
All Star Books
13 photos
American Penguins & Pelicans
63 photos
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Exports to America dwindled to a trickle during the war, but the name of Penguin was kept alive there by...
Anchor Books
14 photos
Archer Books
5 photos
Arrow Books
3 photos
Avon Books
507 photos
Avon Books was founded in 1941 by the American News Corporation (ANC) to create a rival to Pocket Books. They hired brother and sister Joseph Myers and Edna Myers Williams to establish the company....
Avon Fantasy Readers
5 photos
Don Wollheim was clear on the subject: “The Avon Fantasy Reader was not a periodical nor a magazine. It had no set time for appearance, and it was always scheduled only single issue by single...
Avon Murder Mystery Monthly
45 photos
MURDER OF THE MONTH (#s 1 - 4 only)
MURDER MYSTERY MONTHLY
Publishers: Avon Book Company, 432 Fourth Ave., New York, NY; #s 1 - 28
[same], 119 West 57th St., New York 19, NY; #s 29 - 46
Avon...
Award Books
8 photos
Bachelor Books
7 photos
Ballantine Books
84 photos
Bantam Books
529 photos
Bantam Modern Classics
10 photos
Bard Books
8 photos
Beacon Books
279 photos
Beacon was the first regular paperback-sized book published by the Universal Publishing Company, which also issued such labels as Uni Books, Intimate, Royal Giant, Stallion and Fiesta. The Beacon...
Bedside/Bedtime Books
28 photos
Part of Pert Publications, Valiant Publications, E.K.S. Corp.
In 1961 William Hamling of Greenleaf Publications acquired Bedside.
Located in NYC they were published between 1959 and 1963.
Cover...
Bee-Line Books
15 photos
Belmont Books
57 photos
Belmont was started in 1960 by the friendly folks at Archie Comics (which, believe it or not, was established in 1942 and is still around). They originally published Belmont Books in the standard...
Bell-Ringer Books
2 photos
Berkley Books
115 photos
Berkley Books began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company". They renamed it...
Black Cat Books
18 photos
Black Lizard Books
5 photos
Borzoi Books
3 photos
Boudoir Books
9 photos
Brandon House
17 photos
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Capricorn Books
2 photos
Cardinal Books
104 photos
Carousel Books
4 photos
Casanova Publishing
4 photos
Century Books
6 photos
Chariot Books
45 photos
Chevron Books
12 photos
Chicago Paperback House
2 photos
Collector's Editions
1 photo
Collectors Publications
3 photos
Continental Classics
5 photos
Corgi Books
10 photos
Corsair Books
5 photos
Crescent Books
4 photos
Crest Books
60 photos
Crow Editions
6 photos
24 books were published by Alval Publishing of Toronto in 1949 and 1950 as Crow Editions.
Croydon Books
9 photos
Daw Books
17 photos
The 1st 10 Dells
22 photos
Dell Mapbacks (sorted)
516 photos
Dell used maps as a standard feature for a significant amount of time: 1943 - 1951.
In the Dell 25¢ reprint series, 577 books had back covers of maps or designs. Of those 577 original mapbacks, 25...
Dell Map Backs (random)
527 photos
Dell Map Back Mysteries: They Don't Make 'em Like that Anymore!
by Gary Lovisi
The Dell Map Backs of the 1940s and 1950s were something special. It wasn't only their content as excellent as that...
Dell 10¢ Books
36 photos
In 1951 Dell introduced the Dell 10¢ series. There were only 36 titles and all were published in 1951. The first 12 were released in January. They were the idea of Don Ward in response to Lloyd...
Dell 25¢ Books
802 photos
Dell 35¢ Books (D Series)
141 photos
Dell 40¢ Books (R Series)
6 photos
Dell 50¢ Books (F Series)
33 photos
Dell 60¢ Books (S Series)
3 photos
Dell 75¢ Books (X Series)
1 photo
Dell First Editions
32 photos
Dell First Editions - A Series
35 photos
Dell First Editions - B Series
49 photos
Dell First Editions - C Series
4 photos
Dell First Editions - D Series
4 photos
Dell First Editions - F Series
2 photos
Dell First Editions - K Series
8 photos
Dell Great Mystery Library
19 photos
Dell Books - Laurel Editions
64 photos
Dell Books - IBM numbers
247 photos
Dell - Canadian Editions
14 photos
Dollar Double Books
16 photos
Dover Books
15 photos
Dragon Editions
8 photos
Dutton Books
8 photos
Epic Books
6 photos
Eton Books
7 photos
Published between 1951 and 1953, 32 titles in all. The first Etons were reprints of popular nonfiction works, but later titles were all novels and included both reprints and originals. Avon Books...
Europa Books
2 photos
Everyman's Library
12 photos
Exotik Books
6 photos
Faber Books
8 photos
Fabian, Saber, Vega and National Library Books
87 photos
During the mid-50s, Fresno, an agricultural community in central California and "Raisin capital of the world", had a sociocultural 'raison d'etre': the books of Sanford E. Aday. Aday was a...
Fantastic Magazine
6 photos
First Niter Books
21 photos
Fontana Books
22 photos
Foremost Publishers / Connoisseur Publications
49 photos
Four Square Books
3 photos
France Books
13 photos
Based in Hollywood, CA, France (International Publications) was published by Lou Kimzey. They were active from 1962 to 1963 and specialized in cheesecake photo covers and fold-out covers that...
Galaxy Novels
4 photos
Gaslight Books
8 photos
Glittering Images
11 photos
Gold Medal Books
298 photos
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Gold Star Books
14 photos