Refer also to the excellent:
Paperback USA: A Graphic History, 1939-1959 by Piet Schreuders A Blue
Dolphin Book, 1981 (Translated from the Dutch)
Montois
On 2/19/09 2:32 PM, "Ron Clinton" <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
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> (Cross-posted in somewhat different form from Vintage Paperbacks)
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> I enjoy books about the history of genre publishing, the various houses
> behind them, how the authors eked out a living, distribution matters, etc.
> I presently have:
>
> 1). Hardboiled America
> 2). The Mushroom Jungle
> 3). The Fiction Factory
> 4). The Book of Paperbacks
> 5). Dope Menace
> 6). UnderCover
> 7). The Great American Paperback
> 8). Black Mask Boys
> 9). Sin-A-Rama
> 10). Heartbreak & Vine
> 11). Over My Dead Body
>
> ...and some author biographies (Woolrich, Thompson, Goodis, J. Cain, F.
> Brown, et al) and a bunch of similar but pulp-related material.
>
> Have I missed any volumes of particular merit in anyone's opinion?
>
> Ron Clinton
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