Wednesday, December 16, 2015

PaperBack



Keith Vining, Keep Running, Chicago Paperback House, 1962

7 comments:

Todd Mason said...

Is Vining a known pseud? Those are some odd brown cigs. Gauloises used to use a different formula, clearly.

Unknown said...

Don't know squat about Vining except that he wrote 1/2 of Ace Double #1 (TOO HOT FOR HELL) and that I have another book by him (A FAMILY AFFAIR, Newsstand Library) on which his name is spelled Vinning. Or maybe that's a different Keith.

Todd Mason said...

Oops. Looks like even Gauloises brunes used white paper, like probably the vast majority of rolled joints over the last century. Wonder what sort of cigarillo the folks I was remembering were smoking.

Todd Mason said...

The latter was Charlies Sheen, obviously. "Vinning." Thanks.

Unknown said...

You forgot the rim shot.

Anonymous said...

Hawk lists a "Jack Vining", pseud. of one George McKenna. No Keith. This is one of the several CPH titles trotted out by cover buffs to demonstrate that Chicago Paperback House had perhaps the worst cover art of any vintage pb publisher. Nowadays, nearly any publisher, no matter how big, is in the running if they use Photoshop.
Art Scott

Unknown said...

I don't know who did that cover. I know that one of the CPH authors did several of the covers for their books.