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Wirt Williams - Passiontide
(Original Title: Love in a Windy Space)
Avon Books T-224, 1958
Cover Artist: Unknown
"A telling novel of a lost lady."
Marcus Van Heller - Cruel Lips
Greenleaf Classics GC298, 1968
Cover Artist: Unknown
Marcus Van Heller was a pseudonym of John Stevenson
Marcus Van Heller - Adam and Eve
Greenleaf Classics GC234, 1967
Cover Artist: unknown... possibly Harry Bremner
Marcus Van Heller was a pseudonym of John Stevenson
Pull one out a bit too carelessly and you could be the victim of a book avalanche.
A shot from Ye Olde Archives, around 8 or 9 years ago. I used to kill time once in a while, scanning for interesting titles in the secondhand stores. The book section in this shop was the most dangerous. As I recall, the odds of finding anything worthwhile were lowest too.
"Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job
So I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer"
-- From lyrics of "Paperback Writer," The Beatles
Orrie Hitt - As Bad as They Come
Midwood Books 23, 1959
Cover Artist: unknown
"A unique tale about mail order sex."
Dale Bogard - Pardon My Body
Harlequin Books 147, 1951
Cover Artist: unknown
"A tough expose of the American underworld."
Dale Bogard was a pseudonym of Douglas Stallard Enefer (aka Paul Denver).
He was born in England on July 10, 1906. He made a living writing novels and television scripts—and sometimes a combination of the two, including The Avengers, a spin-off of the popular television series of the same name, and several novelizations featuring popular TV detective Frank Cannon. Enefer died in 1987.
Lawrence Block: The Girl with the Long Green Heart.
Hard Case Crime 2005.
Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Ed Hulse - The Art of Pulp Fiction
An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks
Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff
Elephant Books, 2021
Front cover montage: Clockwise from top left - George Gross cowboy from the cover of 'Duel on the Range'; Baryé Phillips femme fatale from 'Satan Is a Woman'; Rudolph Belarski couple (with Big Green Hand) from 'Tales of Chinatown'
Dean McCoy - No Empty Bed for Her
Beacon Books B550F, 1962
Cover Artist: unknown
"Her hunger for love would not be denied for long!"
Paul V. Russo - A Touch of Depravity
Midwood Books 67, 1960
Cover Artist: Rudy Nappi
"Half temptress, half tyrant – Crystal demanded savagery, sophistication and strange thirsts."
Paul V. Russo is a pseudonym of Gilbert Fox.
Iris Murdoch - A Severed Head
Penguin Books 2003, 1965
Cover Artist: Charles Raymond
"With its sombre, and often symbolic handling of adultery, incest, castration, sexual confusion, violence, and suicide, 'A Severed Head' seems at times as macabre as Jacobean tragedy, at times as frivolous as Restoration comedy."
Rex Stout - How Like a God
Lion Library LL 23, 1955
Cover Artist: unknown ... reminds me of Samson Pollen or Mel Crair
Stuart Palmer - Four Lost Ladies
Dell Books 715, 1953
Cover Artist: Griffith Foxley
"A Hildegarde Withers Mystery"
Wilson MacDonald - Passion Slave
Chariot Books 149, 1960
Cover Artist: Al Wagner
"They lured her into the world's oldest trap."
"They ran a strange kind of house, these girls – the inside story of a Calcutta brothel."
Laura Duchamp - The Sunday Lovers /
Mike Henry - Marriage on the Side
Midwood Books 34-711, 1966
Cover Artist: unknown
"Two studies about the games wives play."
Ann Freeman - Between the Two
Fabian Books Z-137, 1960
Cover Artist: unknown
"Ty's little game of sexual revenge on his wife might have worked out the way he'd planned it had Edna not returned when she did..."
Ann Freeman was a pseudonym of Shirley Ann Freeman
Jack Hanley - Let's Make Mary
Hillman Books No #, 1954
Cover photo uncredited
"A Gentleman's Guide to Seduction in 8 Easy Lessons"
LESSON I - Some Interesting Aspects of Seduction
LESSON II - Selecting a Subject
LESSON III - The Approach
LESSON IV - Systems of Seduction
LESSON V - Some More Advanced Systems
LESSON VI - When She Says "Yes"
LESSON VII - Time and Place
LESSON VIII - Aftermaths, Afterthoughts and Addenda
Marie Turni - Cousin Jess
Vega Books V-3, 1960
Cover Artist: unknown
"In the confusion of her amnesia, Janet resented the intrusion of this man she thought she hated. Why had her husband permitted his spying on her?"
Marie Turni is a pseudonym of Christina Smith
Philip Wylie - Finnley Wren: His Life and Loves
Signet Books 701, 1949
Cover Artist: unknown ... Willard Downes ?
"His Notions and Opinions together with a Haphazard History of His Career and Amours in These Moody Years as well as Sundry Rhymes, Fables, Diatribes and Literary Misdemeanors".
Joan Vincent - Divorcee
Midwood Books 32-401, 1964
Cover Artist: unknown - George Alvara ?
"Marriage forced her to face up to the fact that no one man was capable of satisfying her needs."
Pierre Louÿs - Collected Works
Avon Books G-1018, 1955
Cover Artist: uncredited... Bill Randall ?
"Love and Manners in Pagan Times"
Contents:
Aphrodite
The Songs of Bilitis
The Sanguines
The Twilight of the Nymphs
Gil Brewer - The Girl from Hateville
(Original Title: The Angry Dream)
Zenith Books ZB-7, 1958
Cover Artist: Samson Pollen
"They were all out to get him... even the doll with the hungry eyes."
Oscar Peck - Sex Life of a Cop
Saber Books SA-11, 1959
Cover Artist: uncredited; likely Bill Edwards
"This was no ordinary necking party they'd broken up. Before them stood their enraged boss—the Chief of Police—and some woman."
Oscar Peck was a pseudonym of Sanford Aday. However, Joe D. Kinney is listed in the Catalog of Copyrights as the author.
Sanford E. Aday was a failed writer turned publisher and distributor whose softcore imprints included 'Fabian', 'Saber' and 'Vega'.
Probably no one has given the FBI more trouble in the obscenity area than Sanford E. Aday. The most infamous of his books was "The Sex Life of a Cop" by Oscar Peck. Innocuous by today's standards, by Cold War-standards it was evidence of Satan's influence on American culture. Prosecuted by the Justice Department in 1963, Aday was indicted on 18 counts but convicted only on 5. Of the 8 books named in the indictment, 'Sex Life of a Cop' was the only one found obscene under the Roth* legal formula.
*(In 1957 the US Supreme Court upheld Samuel Roth's conviction for manufacturing and selling obscene material. The Court rejected Roth's argument that obscenity was protected by the First Amendment. In 'Roth' the Court developed a 3-part formula for defining obscenity: (1) the material had to appeal to the prurient interest of the average person, (2) violate contemporary community standards and (3) be without redeeming social value.)
Aday and partner Wallace de Ortega Maxey were both fined $25,000 and sentenced to 25 years in prison; the stiffest sentence in US history for obscenity. (They did not have to serve their full terms.)
Aday belonged to the early gay rights Mattachine Society with Ortega Maxey. Maxey was a retired Catholic priest who became minister of the Universalist Church in Los Angeles where the Mattachine Society held its meetings.
Aday was among the first publishers to openly release gay and lesbian-themed books.
(excerpted from "West Coast Blue" by Stephen J. Gertz in "Sin-A-Rama".)