Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First American edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Enterprises, San Diego
Date Published: 1981
Description: Original illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Small 4to. pp. xi+259. Translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter. A well-researched and beautifully illustrated history of American paperbacks between the dates listed on the titlepage. Each of the major companies has a chapter devoted to it, and there is an extremely interesting biographical dictionary of the cover artists. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: BLUE DOLPHIN. SAN DIEGO 1981
Date Published: 1981
Description: First American Edition. A paperback original. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Indispensable reference for collectors of vintage American paperbacks. Heavily illustrated. read more
Description: 1981, 1st American edition, as new condition, stiff pictorial wraps, published by Blue Dolphin Enterprises, San Diego, 259 pages. A historical and comprehensive overview of the paperback publishers from 1939 to 1959; the pricipal publishers, the graphic artists, and the paperback books, profusely illustrated with photographs, and hundreds of the paperback covers, including eighty full color covers. A must have book for the paperback collector! read more
Edition: F First American Edition
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Enterprises, San Diego, CA
Date Published: 1981
Description: Over 200 Color & b/w Illustrations. Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Slight rubbing to wrappers (chiefly at edges); else a near fine copy internally. xi, [1], 259 pages. Survey of the first 20 years of US mass-market paperback-related cover designs; notable for several color reproductions. Includes original and English-language edition prefaces, plus bibliography and index. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1980; "1st printing...June, 1981" (title page verso). read more
Description: San Diego: Blue Dolphin Enterprises, 1981. 259 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos and illustrations, plus color plates of cover reproductions. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Advertisement reproductions. Very good. Light edgewear. A gorgeous history of Ace, Signet, Popular Library, Dell, Avon, Penguin, et al., with an emphasis on cover design. A handsomely presented volume. read more
Description: Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo 9062132510 248 pp. Book is very clean and tight, with only light wear. Jacket shows some wear at extremities. Signed advance prospectus laid in. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Enterprises, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date Published: 1981
Description: Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Tall 8vo. Signed by Author 259pp. Stiff illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w throughout. Signed by the author on free epp; author's card is laid in. Spine ends bumped lightly, else VF. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Blue Dolphin Enterprises, Inc., San Diego
Date Published: 1981
Description: Very Good-Fine. 8vo xii, 259 pp, preface, preface to the English Edition, introduction. Part I: The History of the Paperback, Part II: Paperback Covers, Part III: Appendices, bibliography, index, advertisements with color and b&w illustrations. Translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter. Only slight shelfwear at bottom edge, else, clean, tight and strong binding with no highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial wraps. ~Click on BOOKSTORES to browse our extensive listings of similar titles in Books & ... read more
Description: Blue Dolphin Books, 1st US edition, trade paperback, 1981, a graphic illustrated history of paperback cover art and artists, important book on this subject and still a key paperback reference, nice copy, minor wear to edges, about VG+. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: BLUE DOPHIN ENTERPRISES, INC. 1981
Date Published: 1981
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. TRADE SIZE SOFT COVER WITH PICTORIAL WRAPS (SHOWING BOOK COVERS) IN "VERY GOOD++" (JUST SHORT OF FINE). Piet Schreuders spent 5 years researching the roots of this cultural phenomenon and found besides shameless plagiarism, amateurish drawings and commercially-bred bad taste, a wealth of sensitive, human, original and unique design and art. 259pp. read more
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