Friday, April 10, 2015

Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp

A Girl in Every Port by William McClellanPhoenix 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.

2 comments:

Todd Mason said...

Not pulp. Lending-library press.


Those newly promoted tangerine varieties...they're so pulp!

mybillcrider said...

I knew someone was going to say that.