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    Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks

    By Gary Lovisi

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    It's no secret the sexy and racy cover art of femme fatales from the golden age of paperbacks and magazines exalts the female form in all its sexy and sultry allure. Still today, these lustful, passionate and sometimes lurid images are enticing and artistically inspiring.

    From sexy, semi-dressed pin-up dolls to dangerous bad girls and deadly dames, many of these rare covers were painted by some of the most talented and collectible artists of the last 50 years, including popular American artists Robert Bonfils, Robert Maguire, Gene Bilbrew and Bill Ward, and British artists Reginald Heade and H.W. Perl.

    Always titillating, often tawdry, definitely not politically correct nor for the faint of heart, the nearly 700 full-color pulp fiction paperback cover images in this book show women in all their sexy, sassy and sinful best.

    This dynamic book also features:

    • 700 covers with title, author, cover artist, publisher, book number, and date of publication for each book
    • Values for three grades of condition
    • A quick guide to collecting
    • A list of specialist book dealers and collector shows
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrause Publications
    Release dateJun 18, 2009
    ISBN9781440218484
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    Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks
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    Gary Lovisi

    Gary Lovisi lives in Brooklyn, New York and is a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominated author for his crime fiction, and a Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner as editor. He is the founder of Gryphon Books, editor of Paperback Parade magazine, and the author of over twenty-five books, which include More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ramble House); Murder of A Bookman (Wildside Press); and his collection of 23 hard crime stories, Ultra-Boiled (Ramble House). His dark science fiction novel Mars Needs Books! (Wildside Press) and Sherlock Holmes: The Baron’s Revenge (Airship27 Productions) have garnered praise, while his Jon Kirk of Ares Trilogy: #1, The Winged Men, #2 The Invisible Men, and #3 The Space Men is heroic pulp SF series in the tradition of John Carter of Mars. Homicide Harvest continues Lovisi’s chronicles of his hard-boiled tough guys Griff & Fats. Learn more or contact him through the Gryphon Books website: www.gryphonbooks.com.

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      This is one of those cases where you can judge a book by the cover, as this collection delivers just what the title says. Not for the politically correct, and I'm not even sure that it works that well as a price guide (you'd need a serious collector to make that assessment), but if you're looking for a guilty pleasure to dip into at random you'll be satisfied on that basis.