Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp: 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.
Friday, January 29, 2016
Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp
Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp: 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.
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I read a fine article about Phoenix Press back in the early DAPA-EM days, but the source escapes me. I know they were the last publishers Harry Stephen Keeler had in his lifetime.
And not pulp. As the Beatles song "Lending Library Writer" helps demonstrate.
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