Stacks of Books Crushing Me 3
or, Requiem for the Mass Market Paperback
You could once buy Nobel Prize winners in mass market paperback format with psychedelic cover art. Born in 1977, I caught the tail end of this era and I'm glad I did. Some of the books in this post are the very copies I read in high school.
Not coming to a newsstand near you: Tomas Tranströmer.
Also see a post of covers I did for the Poetry Society of America.
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
No credit for design or illustration
Fawcett 1971 edition
Amazon page for this edition
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Signed "Bama"? "Bossa"? This is probably obvious to someone...
Bantam, 1964 edition
Amazon page for this edition
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Bantam, 1969-ish
No cover credit
Amazon page for this edition
detail
Innovative Fiction, edited by Jerome Klinkowitz & John Somer
No cover credit
Amazon page for this edition
The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier
Cover illustration by Mati
Avon 1968 (original 1960 from....Gallimard!)
Amazon page for this edition of what feels like the ur-text for every subsequent counter-culture
This is the pair behind Planete and Plexus
Petronius, Satyricon, Arrowsmith translation
No cover credit; maybe Robert Jonas?
NAL/Mentor c. 1960
Amazon page for this edition
detail
Sartor Resartus by Carlyle
Cover drawing by David Godfrey
1973 Dent/Dutton edition
Amazon page for this edition
The Death of a Nobody by Jules Romains
Cover illustration initialed MG
Signet 1961
Amazon page for this edition
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
One of Edward Gorey's Doubleday Anchor designs
1953
Amazon page for this edition
The Sibyl by Par Lagervist
cover design by George Giusti
Vintage V-240, c. 1960s
Amazon page for this edition
Crazy Like a Fox by S. J. Perelman
cover by George Giusti
Vintage V-907, 1970s
Amazon page for this edition
The Fall by Albert Camus
No cover credit
Vintage V-223, no date given
Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen
Cover drawing by John Groth
Vintage, circa 1970
Amazon page for this edition
Hermit of Peking by Hugh Trevor-Roper
cover illustration by Peter Brookes
Penguin 1978
Amazon page for this edition
Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
"The cover shows the Arms of La Rochefoucauld, from the wall of the church in Anais, Charente"
1981 Penguin edition
Amazon page for this edition
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
Illustration by Mel Odom / Cover design by Neil Stuart
Penguin 1980 edition
Amazon page for this edition
Forgetting Elena by Edmund White
Illustration by Mel Odom / Cover design by Neil Stuart
Penguin 1981 edition
Amazon page for this edition
Andreyev, The Seven That Were Hanged & Other Stories
No cover credit
Modern Library paperback, copyright 1958 but this is probably later
Contraries: Studies in German Literature by Michael Hamburger
Cover design by Barry Zaid
Dutton 1970
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The New American Cinema, edited by Gregory Battcock
Cover by Paul Davis
Dutton, 1967
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Black Voices, edited by Abraham Chapman
NAL/Mentor, copyrighted 1968 though not sure if this edition came later
Amazon page for this edition
Proust by Roger Shattuck
Cover painting by Oliver Bevan
Fontana Modern Masters, late 70s
Amazon page for this edition
