Vintage Paperback Cover Art

"Perhaps paperback publishing's most bizarre instance of self-censorship occurred in Great Britain. Allen Lane, Penguin founder, wa...

"Whenever a new book comes out, I read an old one."      - William Lyon Phelps, 'Books News and Views,' The Rotarian , Ma...

"Columnists need obsessions, even addictions. We simply couldn’t keep turning out 900 words on a regular schedule if we weren’t allowe...

“Mickey Spillane is just about on the same low level of phoniness, and as far as I’m concerned just as unreadable. I did honestly try to re...

“However, the covers were sometimes printed in advance, before there was a story. So what the editor did was show me the cover or a drawing ...

“Paperbacks had come into their own during and after the Second World War, and, by 1950, were like a giant money machine. Anything could be ...

“But of all covers, most potent are the crime fiction ones – largely due to the lurid lasses who adorn them. Redrawn in voluptuous detail, ...

“Paperback cover art reached great popularity by the 1950s. It has its origins in 1930s Pulp art. Paperback books were sold as much for the...

“Even if pulp fiction is still just too pulpy for you, take time to admire the covers. Damn were they cool.” -- Bill Ott, ‘Women Write P...