The Story of the Stepback Cover
Over at the 'Sweet Savage Flame' blog devoted to vintage paperback romance novels, an interesting series of articles about the stepback cover, a major artistic and marketing feature of old school books. Lots of pics from not just the romance genre, but Paperbacks from Hell, too !
Wow, appreciate the link—I’m not a romance reader but those paperbacks take me back to working in a used bookstore decades ago where those books threatened to take over the store…
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