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Showing posts with label Paperback books. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Paperback books. Show all posts

Popular Culture Perceptions of the ARTIST Studio tour of Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with Depictions of an Artist

Over the years while collecting obscure Vintage Sleaze paperbacks for a project, I accumulated a whole pallette of cruddy books based on the...

Artists and their Models. Painters paint Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks

Representations of painters on paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s. The most recognized artist in America...

Non GPS Vintage Paperbacks The Dell Series of Mapbacks

Long before GPS in our phones provided direction and Google Maps provided illustrations, the Dell Mapback series of pape...

Harlemisms from New York Confidential Mapback Book Speak like an (Urban) Native

CLICK TO GET HEP, JACK I have written about Mapbacks before, those beautiful mystery books from the 1950s which always had a map on the...

Hitched in Hardboiled Heaven Hollywood Hi-jinks of Bellem and Barreaux

Robert Leslie Bellem did the words. Adolphe Barreaux did the art. Decades before Harvey Pekar wrote stories for others to illustrate, Bell...

Manhattan Mapbacks! Dell Paperback Maps of the Big Apple New York City on the Back of a Book

All great fake crimes take place in Manhattan. Sure, some happen elsewhere, but except for a few genre-creating masterpieces set in Los Ang...

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