50s book covers

These are two of my favorite book covers ever! I've been collecting vintage books, especially Young Adult ones, because the cover artwork is always so amazing. I read Jean and Johnny in 7th grade, and totally related to the shy, bespectacled heroine. Of course, Beverly Cleary was one of my most beloved authors growing up, and I remember being so happy to find her in the Junior High library. I adored Beezus and Ramona, Henry and Ribsy, Henry Huggins, Otis Spofford, and all the books about the…

David Attie, Berkley Books, 1958

In my review of the thriller I'll Tell You Everything, by Gerald Bullett and J. B. Priestley, I mentioned how these two respected English authors, primarily associated primarily with "mainstream" works, wrote some additional crime and mystery fiction, including legitimate detective novels. Today I am reviewing one by Gerald Bullett; in a few days I will review one by J. B. Priestley. Near the end of his life, Gerald Bullett (1893-1958), published two legitimate detective novels under the…

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Borrowing quite a bit from the Penguin covers of the same period for Deighton's books. Dated November 1966.

1959

1951; Youre lonely when youre Dead by James Hadley Chase. With a great Arnold Taylor cover art

There was an old secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh where I whiled away many an afternoon during the school summer holidays browsing pulp books, American comics and gentlemen's magazines. ..

1950s book cover