Showing posts with label Max White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max White. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2015

Paperback 853: Anna Becker / Max White (Bantam 830)

Paperback 853: Bantam 830 (1st ptg, 1950)

Title: Anna Becker
Author: Max White
Cover artist: Uncredited

Estimated value: $8-12

Donation to the collection from The Second Reader Bookshop (Buffalo, NY)

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Best things about this cover:

  • Who can forget Anna Becker's great novel, "Max White"? Or vice versa, I forget.
  • This cover raises one (and only one) very important question: Where Can I Get That Lamp!?
  • Anna had vowed to protect the Jesus Chair at all costs! ALL COSTS!
  • Ew, what is he doing with his right thumb?
  • Ew, "torn between fright and desire" is rapist talk, man. "She was shaking and resisting, but … ya know." Gross.


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Best things about this back cover:

  • So basically it's an exposé of the sexy librarian.
  • A "FRANK" exposé! Hell yeah, "frank"!
  • Sometimes I think paperbacks came to exist because hardback dust jacket cover art was just So Bad.


Page 123~

So when Harrison said he liked Anna better now, she was not prepared to see what he meant.

I understand, Anna. We all understand. P.S. run.

~RP

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