Mostly Dell Mysteries - - they featured the 'crime map' on the back cover, and I've included a couple of examples. There's also a few from Popular Library; no crime maps, but some pretty artwork in a similar vein.
Check it out. Hope you enjoy!
Link to my flickr set:
Cover Gallery: 1940's Paperback Mysteries
(ADDENDUM, 2/6/08: 2 new titles added to set, yielding 5 new images.)
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► In Search of Jughead's Hat► Muppet-less projects of young Jim Henson
► Adventures in language instruction with Professor Berlitz
► The Art of Lansing Campbell and the Perilous World of Uncle Wiggily
► Dr. Wertham's 'What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books' (1953)
► Nicolas Bentley's illustrations
► Bill Cosby's 'Disco Bill' (1977)
► Edward Stoddard's 'How To Remember Names and Faces' (1958)
► 1950's French version of 'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)'
► The Pee Wee Herman Stage Show Original Cast Recording (1981)
► Be-Bop 'Hawaiian War Chant' by Dave Lambert
► Laxative tantrums, Castoria and you, circa 1941
► Bill Dorsey's 'Suck A Sour Lemon' b/w 'But Not Today'
► A Mechanical Elephant for Peter Sellers
► Charles Folkard's 'Alice In Wonderland' illustrations, 1921
► Rev. Carey Landry - 'The Giant Love Ball Song' (1973)
► Miyoshi Umeki sings
► Les Baxter 'Ritual of the Savage' photo-spread, 1951
► Cool 'Beatsploitation' in
John Stanley's 'Kookie' comics
► '60's lounge Dylan cover - Shawn Elliot's 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'
► Max Kaminsky and his Windy City Six - Chicago '54 Trad Jazz
► Rock N' Roll 'Collage Drawings' by Opal Nations
► The Soulful Strings - 'Paint It Black' and a few others (1966)
► Cookbook illustrations by
Lou Peters (1955)
► Ted Randal's 'What Is A Disc Jockey?' (1957)
► Dave Dudley's 'Lonelyville'
► A Frightening Feminine Hygiene ad, 1948
► Swingin' Calypsos by Lord Flea and his Calypsonians (1957)
► Vinyl Archaelogy Diary
► Sammy Davis Jr. - 'It's a Happening World'
► Love for a Lava Lamp, and the box it came in, too
► Bob Elliott reading
Robert Benchley's 'The Social Life of the Newt'
► A Bonzo Dog runs solo: Roger Ruskin Spear's 'Unusual' LP (1973)
► Zorro Five's 'Reggae Shhh!' b/w 'Reggae Meadowlands' (1970)
► Willie Mays, spokesmodel
► Stan Cornyn: King of the 1960's LP Liner Notes
► A few hot Blues tracks by George 'Wild Child' Butler
► Joe Biviano - N.B.C. Polka (1949)
► Godfrey Cambridge Comics, with artwork by Mort Drucker and Neal Adams (1967)
► Raymond Scott Quintet: The Girl With The Light Blue Hair
► Cecil Young Progressive Quartet: Who Parked The Car
► 'Come On-A My House': The original by William Saroyan & Ross Bagdasarian (1951)
► Devo's E-Z Listening Muzak Cassettes from the 1980s
► 1967's 'Smashing Time'
starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave
► Arnold Roth's 'Pick A Peck Of Puzzles'
► Vaughn DeLeath - Banana Oil (1925)
► José Feliciano in 1966:
'A Bag Full of Soul'
► 'Sin In Satin' - Polly Possum and Joe Wolverton (1952)
► Wham! and the hazards of auto-reverse cassettes
► Tex Williams' reversal: 'Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! '68'
► Hans Conried in screenshots from 1953's 'The Twonky'
► Al 'Jazzbo' Collins - 'Grimm Fairy Tales For Hip Kids' (1953)
a Noel Neill Appreciation
► Chris Elliott fashion spread
► Nick Apollo's 'Can I Depend On You' LP
► 1960's Archie comics as a mirror to fashion & fads
► Quartette Trés Bien -
Voo Doo Man
► Willard Cele's
'Penny Whistle Blues' (1951)
► Zero Mostel's Face, Zero Mostel's Life
► 'United Mutations': Frank Zappa's fan club comic book ad (1967)
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Nice set. Thanks!!
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