#paperback art

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Illustration by one of my favorite paperback artists Ernest Chiriacka, who would alternate the spelling of his name, sometimes under Chiriaka and sometimes simply under the moniker Darcy.

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - B R-R-R-! by Groff Conklin

Avon (1959)

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Paperbacks That Never Were - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Art by Nickolej Villiger

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Paperback - The Shadow #02: The Eyes Of The Shadow by Maxwell Grant (1969)

Art by Sandy Kossin

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[cantsayidont]

1963. Robert McGinnis painting for the cover of the Signet paperback edition of THE PASSIONATE PAGAN, a Danny Boyd mystery by Australian author Alan Yates (writing as Carter Brown).

[theartisticendeavor]

Vintage Paperback - Born Innocent by Creighton Brown Burnham

Pyramid (1959)

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Earle K. Bergey - cover art for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos. Paperback edition c. 1948.

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[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"RUSH IN AND DIE, DOGS -- I WAS A MAN BEFORE I WAS A KING."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Lancer novel 73-526 Paperback Original, "Conan the Adventurer" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. Cover art by the late, great Frank Frazetta (1928-2010). 

PIC #2: The second paperback cover was published by Prestige Books Inc. and distributed by Ace. Only $1.95.

Resolution at 1991x3371 & 1249x2045.

Source: https://pulpcovers.com/conan-the-adventurer.

[atomic-raunch]

Art by the great Ron Lesser

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - Tales From The Crypt #01 (1964)

Cover by Frank Frazetta

Ballantine Books

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Paperback - The Shadow #07: Gangdom's Doom by Maxwell Grant (1970)

[cantsayidont]

The model for this 1970 Robert McGinnis painting, which was used for the cover of the Signet paperback edition of Carter Brown's THE UNORTHODOX CORPSE, was Shere Hite (1942–2020), then an undergraduate at Columbia University and later a groundbreaking, highly controversial sexologist and the author of, inter alia, THE HITE REPORT ON FEMALE SEXUALITY, first published in 1976. Here's McGinnis's sketch of Hite for the above painting:

[theartisticendeavor]

Vintage Paperback - Burial Of The Fruit by David Dortort

Avon (1951)

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What books have you done this to?

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