Vintage Paperback Cover Art

    Geoffrey O'Brien, Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir , New York: Da Capo Press, 1997. Expanded edition. 1...

Along the way there were intriguing confluences and connections [1]. The exuberantly subversive aesthetic of the vintage cover art style par...

All told, it was a glorious run for these and other publishing houses, but the vintage style and the white hot intensity of its disturbing i...

The packaging as well as the stories then had to reflect male tastes [1], and this largely accounts for the trend to more sordid, i.e. v...

  All this was reinforced by paperbacks’ already somewhat tawdry and unsavory reputation [1]. It was no accident then that the vintage cover...

   Several factors contributed to this new art form, which sprang seemingly full-blown in all its over-the-top glory : greater competition;...