Signet 755 + dresser
1949; An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Cover art by James Avati.
Avati's cover depicting the pregnant girl, captured at the precise moment when she has read a rejection letter from her lover, became the image imprinted in the minds of millions of paperback readers. Marc Jaffe, then a junior editor at NAL , later said he thought this was the best paperback cover he'd ever seen.
[ Source: The Paperback art of James Avati (p. 31) by Piet Schreuders and Kenneth Fulton ]
Signet 755 + dresser
1949; An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Cover art by James Avati.
Avati's cover depicting the pregnant girl, captured at the precise moment when she has read a rejection letter from her lover, became the image imprinted in the minds of millions of paperback readers. Marc Jaffe, then a junior editor at NAL , later said he thought this was the best paperback cover he'd ever seen.
[ Source: The Paperback art of James Avati (p. 31) by Piet Schreuders and Kenneth Fulton ]