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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 5 days

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The Editors of Everywoman's Daily Horoscope - Astrology and the Single Girl - Popular Library - 1970

#witches #astrologers #occult #vintage #astrology and the single girl #popular library #everywoman #everywoman's daily horoscope #daily horoscope #horoscope #astrology #single girls #zodiac #signs #1970

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atomic-chronoscaph · 8 months

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Jules de Grandin, Occult Detective - art by Vincent Di Fate (1976)

#vincent di fate #jules de grandin #seabury quinn #70s horror art #pulp art #cover art #occult detective #popular library #monsters #satanists #demons #seventies #1976

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mudwerks · 4 months

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(via Killer Covers: And a Very Merry Christmas to All!)

The Corpse in the Snowman, by “Nicholas Blake,” aka Cecil Day-Lewis (Popular Library, 1945). Cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman

#The Corpse in the Snowman #cover #art #pulp #vintage #H. Lawrence Hoffman #Popular Library #1945 #Cecil Day-Lewis

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thehauntedrocket · 7 months

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Vintage Paperback - Dragon's Island by Jack Williamson

Art by Earle Bergey

Popular Library (1952)

#Paperback Art #Paperback Cover #Dragon's Island #Jack Williamson #Science Fiction #Vintage #Art #Popular Library #Earle Bergey #Paperback #Paperbacks #Rockets #1952 #1950s #50s

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paintermagazine · 6 months

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‘Cupcakes?’

Original artist: Rudolph Belarski

#pin up style #pin up art #comic book art #good girl art #pulp art #Rudolph Belarski #pulp cover #pulp fiction #Popular Library #patricia wentworth #A Whisk in Time #pin up cartoon

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uwmspeccoll · 5 months

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Steamy Saturday

"Flaring passions behind hospital doors."

". . . hospitals are sex-charged places full of the pressures of unfulfilled and unfulfillable yearnings. . . ."

". . . soldiers return bedridden . . . and women . . . were all too eager to supply what they missed."

". . . there are some who will read this book furtively, looking for the lurid passages."

". . . revealing the seamy side of hospital experiences."

". . . a dozen intertwined tales of love among the limbless."

Whoa, whoa, whoa!! What kind of steam is this?! Despite its lurid cover art with its inflammatory copy to entice readers, this pulp novel is not nearly as sordid as it is made out to be. But it is about the rehabilitation of soldiers disabled by war and the nurses who care for them. And, yes, there is some romance.

Ward 20 is by American military and Western writer James Warner Bellah (1899-1976). Despite writing for the pulps, a number of his stories were turned into films, such as John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950), and with Willis Goldbeck, Bellah wrote the screenplays for Sergeant Rutledge (1960) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Bellah himself was a veteran of both World Wars, leaving the service with the rank of Colonel. As a veteran, he wrote his military stories with authority, and Ward 20 was heralded for its stark authenticity.

Ward 20 was originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1946. Our copy is the first pulp-fiction edition published in New York by Popular Library in 1953.

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#Steamy Saturday #pulp fiction #pulp novels #romance novels #romance fiction #military fiction #nurse romance fiction #nurse romance novels #nurses #soldiers #veterans #disabled veterans #Ward 20 #James Warner Bellah #Popular Library

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bilibliophl · 4 months

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Earle K. Bergey - cover art for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos. Paperback edition c. 1948.

#book cover #paperback art #popular library

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retropopcult · 1 year

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1950

#Whistle Stop #pulp #novel #vintage #paperback #mid-century #sleaze #fiction #Popular Library #1950s #book

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 1 year

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Popular Library 221 – Anita Loos – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Popular Library 221

Published 1950

Cover Artist: Earle Bergey

#gentlemen prefer blondes #anita loos #book cover art #popular library #pulp fiction #1950s #earle bergey #blonde #gentlemen

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vintagelibraries · 2 years

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Biblioteca Popular del Municipio B. Rivadavia, Salón de lectura, (Popular Library of the Municipality B. Rivadavia, Reading Room), Buenos Aires, Argentina, c. 1907.