>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:59:13 -0500
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>From: Bruce Southworth <
bruces1@mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V3 #739
>
>De-lurking briefly to report the
following:
>
>According to "The Book of Paperbacks" by Piet
Schreuders, Robert Maguire
>"studied under Frank Reilly at the Art Students
League of New York. [He]
>produced covers for Pocket Books beginning in 1953,
Signet between 1954
>and 1958, and Dell between 1954 and 1967, for Berkley
between 1955 and
>1960 and for Monarch between 1959 and 1964; he also
did covers for Lion
>Books and Hillman Books." There is no mention of
Belmont Books in
>Schreuders' index. Nor is there one in "Hardboiled
America: the Lurid
>Years of Paperbacks" by Geoffrey O'Brien.
>
>Hubin's Crime fiction index 3 (which goes thru 1995)
does have listings
>for Belmont as a publisher but has no reference for
'The Machine in Ward
>Eleven' either under Willeford or his pseudonym of
Will Charles. There is
>a passing reference to 'The Machine in Ward Eleven'
in "Pulp Culture: Hard
>Boiled Fiction and the Cold War" by Woody Haut, but
no publisher listed.
>
>Interestingly, there is no mention at all of
Willeford in either Barzun's
>"A Catalogue of Crime" (revised and enlarged ed.) or,
the new "Oxford
>Guide to Crime and Mystery Writing" ed. by Rosemary
Herbert.
>
>I don't know if any of this is useful or not, but
there it is.
>
>Bruce Southworth
>
>
>
>At 12:01 PM 6/11/01, you wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:25:03 EDT
>>From:
BetsyaW@aol.com
>>Subject: RARA-AVIS: putting a name
to...
>>
>>Does anyone know about Robert Maguire, paperback
fiction cover artist? I'm
>>still trying to de-anonymous-ize the cover
illustrator of The Machine in
>>Ward Eleven, published by Belmont books in
193.
>>Thanks,
>>Betsy Willeford
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