Saturday, December 14, 2013

Paperback 726: New Orleans Lady / Viña Delmar (Avon 209)

Paperback 726: Avon 209 (PBO, 1949)

Title: New Orleans Lady
Author: Viña Delmar
Cover artist: [Bernie] Barton

Yours for: $6

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 Best things about this cover:

  • The cover of Latex Fetish Monthly, June 1949
  • I love a title written in Whorehouse font.
  • Her breasts are like some kind of fancy little cupcake.
  • Cover's pretty boring, but if you stare at it long enough, it gets a little creepy. Dude looks like something Charles Burns would draw.


And now the back cover…

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 Best things about this back cover:
  • Shakespeare's like "Hey … 'sup?"
  • If you sing "Eulalie" to the tune of "Layla," it kind of works.

Page 123~

She passed her hand tiredly over her forehead. "Please, Lorenz, go away. I must rest. One of my headaches—"

"Go away indeed! I'll cure your headache." He threw a glance toward Septembre. "I have news."

"I'll cure your headache." HA ha. Oh, Lorenz, you're the date-rapiest!

P.S. Septembre

~RP

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4 comments:

  1. KeirDecember 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM

    Eulalie... HOW does one make that fit with Layla? I have things to do tonight.

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  2. Random White GuyDecember 15, 2013 at 1:49 PM

    "Oh, Tyrone Powers!"

    "Oh, Gloria Swanson!"

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  3. AnonymousDecember 16, 2013 at 9:37 AM

    Shakespeare looks ... skeptical.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM

    My dad, Bernie Barton, was the artist.
    I think he regarded his pulp covers as cheap hack work.
    A quick buck.
    Can't imagine what he would think about
    people collecting them now.

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