1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

1960 9th Print; Gretta by Erskine Caldwell. Cover art by James Avati.

1948; I Love you, I love you, I love you by Ludwig Bemelmans. unknown Artist

Isaac Babel - Lyubka the Cossack and Other Stories

Signet Classics CT203, 1963

Cover Artist: Saul Lambert

Toni Howard - Shriek with Pleasure

Signet Books 820, 1950

Cover Photo of Toni Howard uncredited

"Nothing was taboo."

1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

1948; Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Cover art by Robert Jonas

1956; A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia. Cover art by James Avati.

1950; Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov. unknown Artist.

Interesting little 35mm rangefinder. Not all cameras with the red dot are Leica.

1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

Carter Brown: Angel!

Signet Books 1962.

Cover by Robert McGinnis.

Erich Maria Remarque: Spark of life.

Signet Books 1953.

Cover by Stanley Zuckerberg.

1953; The Red Carnation by Elio Vittorin. Cover art by Stanley Zuckerberg. Lovely streetscene

Back view of the Signet, with its handy exposure calculator.

1960 - 14th print; My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane. Cover art by James Avati. Published by Signet 1789.

Tennessee Williams: Period of adjustment.

Signet Books 1962.

Movie tie-in starring Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton.

Charles O. Gorham: The gilded hearse.

Signet Books 1st printing March 1949.

Cover art by James Avati.

Irwin Shaw: The troubled air.

Signet 1952.

Cover art: James Avati.

Frederic Wakeman: The wastrel.

Signet Books 1950.

Cover art by Ray Pease.

Carter Brown: The dance of death.

Signet Books 1964.

Cover by Robert McGinnis.

Robert A. Heinlein: Assignment in eternity.

Signet 1954

Cover by Richard Powers.

Tennessee Williams - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Signet Books 955, 1952

Cover photo of Tennessee Williams uncredited

En una carretera perdida en Salamanca

The Deadly Sex by Jack Webb. 1961. Cover by Bob Abbett.

Ayn Rand - For the New Intellectual

Signet Books T3370, 1961; 11th printing ca 1967

Cover design uncredited

Photo of Ayn Rand by Phyllis Cerf

Fujifilm 200

Julian Green: Moira.

Signet Books 1953.

Design for the signet of an advertising company. Artist Morton Goldsholl. USA. From Gebrauchsgraphik No. 6, 1966. Blogged at Aqua-Velvet.

Colette - Chéri and The Last of Chéri

Signet Books S1189, 1955

Cover photo of Colette by Patrick O'Higgins

William Gardner Smith: Anger at innocence.

Signet Books 1951.

Cover art by Tom Dunn.

William Russell - A Wind is Rising

Signet Books 900, 1951

Cover photo of William Russell by Dely Monteser

Tobias Smollett - Roderick Random

Signet Classics CT255, 1964

Cover Artist: illegible

Mickey Spillane: Kiss me, deadly.

Signet Books 1953.

Cover by James Meese.

1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

1961; Kyra by Kyra Petrovskaya. Cover art by James Avati. With 4 pages of photos inside.

1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

Robert Penn Warren: Band of angels.

Signet 1956.

Cover art: James Avati.

1962; The Lady is Transparent by Carter Brown. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Published by Signet 2148

Martin Luther King, Jr - Why We Can't Wait

Signet Books P2476, 1964

Cover design uncredited

Produced from 1958 to 1962, the Kodak Signet 80 was the last serious rangefinder Kodak made. It was an interchangeable lens camera: in addition to the 50mm lens, 35mm and 90mm lenses were available. It had a unique film take-up mechanism that did not require a film spool. Designed by Arthur Crapsey, it was a striking example of mid-century design aesthetic.

Carter Brown: The bombshell.

Signet Books 1960.

Cover by Baryé Phillips.

Harlan Ellison: The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world.

Signet Books 1974.

Cover art by Bob Pepper.