Re: RARA-AVIS: cover art

William Denton (buff@vex.net)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:22:21 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, michael david sharp wrote:

: I'm looking for suggestions as to what would be the best way
: to go about researching paperback cover art and blurbs from the
: period 1945-65.

This one's mentioned on the RARA-AVIS web site:

Server, Lee. _Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American
Paperback: 1945-1955_ (San Franciso: Chronicle Books, 1994)

It's quite good, and will probably give you some good leads. I love
those old covers, and have postcard versions of some of them. "She
was through with men - but she wasn't through with love!"

Bill

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