Saturday, September 06, 2014

PaperBack



Sheldon Lord (Lawrence Block), Born to be Bad, Midwood, 1959

6 comments:

C E said...

back cover copy....

period (.)
outside the
quotation mark (') (")

LOL

C E said...

... this quotation mark thing _after_ the graphic on top of back page where, despite the graphic, the typsetter got the placement and use of quotation marks correct in a much more involved sentence.

Ah, the days of pulp.

Bill, how much do you suppose Lawrence got paid for this one?

mybillcrider said...

As I understand it, the pay wasn't bad at all. This particular book went through three printings, I believe.

C E said...

Amazing.

Anonymous said...

You've got quite the collection of Block's pseudonymous soft core stuff, it seems. Yes, I'm jealous.


Jeff

mybillcrider said...

Don't be. Many of these are swiped from eBay.