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Classic Covers: Mourned on a Sunday by Helen Reilly

Who doesn't love a Dell Mapback?

Classic Covers: Tell Me About Women by Harry Reasoner

Happy Valentine's Day with Dell Mapback 417 - Tell Me About Women. 

(Map of where to meet the ladeez below the jump)

Classic Covers: Private Eyeful by Henry Kane

Her curve-hugging, low-cut top reveals everything except her beautiful brain. Seriously, it's not there.

Stop looking.

Private Eyeful by Henry Kane.

Some Dick to take you into the New Year

 

Happy New Year from all of us at Pornokitsch. 

May it be filled with classic covers (and not-so-classic dick jokes).

 

Classic Covers: Girls in Trouble

 

Classic Covers: Ring Around Rosy by Gordon Davis

Another beauty from Robert McGinnis. More on the strange world of 'Gordon Davis' tomorrow...

First Printing x Second Printing

With art this striking, you might as well re-use it, right?

Classic Covers: The Company Girls by Mona Williams

Robert McGinnis? He was really, really good.

Random Rankings: Top 5 Fawcett Gold Medal Authors

With the possible exception of Ace Doubles, my favorite vintage paperbacks are the under-appreciated Fawcett Gold Medals. 

In 1950, Roscoe Fawcett launched a line of original paperbacks - he was prompted by a somewhat restrictive contract that prevented him from launching original books, and he felt that paperbacks could be snuck out the door without violating the agreement. 

The books took off like wildfire - Fawcett effectively launched the American paperback originals industry (the Penguin of the States), and, with it, the careers of hundreds of new authors. (On the downside, Gold Medal probably killed off the struggling pulp magazines. Sorry.)

For no particular reason, here's an utterly arbitrary list of the best five authors to have published original fiction in the Gold Medal line:

Classic Covers: Midwood Publishing

Finally got my paws on a couple books from the infamous sleaze publisher (check out this lovely site for a full cover gallery), thanks to a terrific shopping binge in Lyme Regis.

More pornokitsch treasures after the fold. Sex sex sex!