| Vintage Pulp | Aug 16 2014 |
Mid-century fiction’s love affair with the East produced scores of virtuoso bookcovers.
It seems time for another themed cover collection, so today we’re sharing some of the scores of Asian styled mid-century paperback fronts we’ve seen. Much of the fiction here is offensive on some level, but then quite a bit of the old literature falls into that category. The art, on the other hand, is somewhat easier to look at dispassionately. So we have thirty-two paperback covers revealing the mid-century fascination with—or exploitation of—Asian archetypes, with art by Denis McLoughlin, Robert Maguire (identically on Ne-San and The Transistor Girls), J. Oval, aka Ben Ostrick, and more. Four or five of these came from Flickr, so thanks to the original uploaders on those.
Ronald KirkbrideKarl EskelundGriffMark CorriganSidney WeintraubMax DauthendeyJerome DenverPaul DanielsStuart GriffinJean HougronCharles PettitDan CushmanStephen BeckerWilliam GroningerBarye PhillipsBen OstrickVivian ConnellJ. OvalRobert MaguireJack ReynoldsRobert R. RoripaughMarcel LetangJ. E. MacDonnellJames WorkmanSimon HarvesterNoel LangleyBrian Coopercover artcover collectionliterature
| Vintage Pulp | Oct 18 2011 |
Tamiko looks more like a Tanya or a Theresa to us, but what do we know?
Above, five pulp pieces from illustrator J. Oval, including Ronald Kirkbride’s bestseller A Girl Named Tamiko (with its suspiciously non-Japanese-looking cover subject), and two from Sergeanne Golon’s famed Angélique series. Sergeanne Golon was actually a pseudonym for French author Anne Golon and her Russian husband/historical researcher Serge, aka Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff. J. Oval was a pseudonym for artist Ben Ostrick, who was a major illustrator of both books and magazine articles in the 1950s and 1960s. These covers are circa late 1958 to 1962.
FranceRussiaAngélique and the SultanAngélique in RevoltAway from HomeA Girl Named TamikoFor Your Eyes OnlyIan FlemingRonald KirkbrideRona JaffeSergeanne GolonSerge GolonAnne GolonJ. OvalBen OstrickJames Bondcover artliterature
