Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp on AbeBooks: New York’s Phoenix Press was a publisher of mysteries, westerns, and other light fiction in the 1930s and 1940s. We were alerted to this company’s literary history by a loyal AbeBooks customer called Paul Rollinson, who encouraged us to feature Phoenix’s fantastic Depression-era pulp, if only for the amazing dust jackets. Phoenix was one of many lending-library publishers of the era, and fought to rise above the others of its ilk to make a name for itself in the tough economic climate.Disclaimer: I know the use of "pulp" here will raise the ire of some readers of this blog. I don't write 'em; I just link 'em.
3 comments:
Heck, I would like to have them, but not at those prices. Might be some pretty good westerns in the bunch, and even a good mystery or two. Shucks, five or six dollars would be a fair price (hahaha).
I wonder if the ABE people knew about the lending library publishers website, based on the work of Bill Deeck.
http://www.lendinglibmystery.com/
It includes "The Saga of the Risen Phoenix" by Bill Pronzini, worth reading.
Art Scott
That's a great essay, all right.
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