Berliner Luft | Photography | Hatje Cantz. “I’ll Get Mine!” Thirteen Vintage Pulp Book Covers That Depict “Loose Women” Getting High | TheInfluence. Trashy pulp fiction reached its height in the 1920s and ’30s, fostering a plethora of book covers destined to be made into the posters of today.
The pulp era overlapped with a surge in anti-marijuana propaganda, spearheaded by Harry Anslinger, whose hatred of weed was rooted in racism and sexism. “Two Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp,”went one example of his rhetoric. “Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis.” This notion that drugs legal and illegal would ensnare women into promiscuity and exploitation proliferated in pulp fiction. Women who used drugs were invariably portrayed as “loose,” and a danger not just to themselves but to society at large.
The World’s Worst Women They’re not just drinking—they’re drinking naked! “She Traded Her Body For Drugs—And Kicks!” Black Opium This time she’s mixing nudity with opium, in search of some “shocking ecstasy.” The Girls in 3-B “She Loved Men, Money And [naturally!] Pelican Book Covers – Graphic Design. The Book Cover - Ladybird Books UK after 1950. ** PULP FICTION POSTCARDS & OTHER POP-CULTURE PRODUCTS ** Collection: Pulp Fiction Cover Gallery. Pulp Covers | The Best Of The Worst. The Book Cover Archive : Penguin Books Ltd. Penguin & Pelican Collection.
The Art of American Book Covers: Thomas Watson Ball. Gilian the Dreamer by Neil MunroDodd, Mead, 1899 cover by Thomas Watson Ball, unsigned The covers of T. W. Ball were completely neglected by scholars of binding design for many years. Gullans and Espey did not mention him in their 1979 essay in Collectible Books, despite listing “The Major Designers” and “Other Noteworthy Designers.”
Ball worked in several distinct styles and rarely monogrammed his work. The portfolio passed from Metzdorf ’s estate to the University of Rochester in 1975. The Mistress of the Ranchby Frederick Thickstun Clark Harper & Brothers, 1897 Old Chester Tales (1899, below) uses similar trees with a more realistic townscape. Old Chester Tales by Margaret Deland Harper & Brothers, 1899 Last September I wrote about Variants and More Variants.
A more subtle difference, which would have struck the author on first glance, is that his name is spelled "Munroe" on the gold copy and "Munro" on the silver. Ball often painted in the Pointillist and Impressionist styles.