Lonely Hearts
First Edition.
17cm x 11cm. 158 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Lesbian pulp fiction by American pulp writer Paul Little under his Bob Conway pseudonym. After Hours AH 134. Cover art by Eric Stanton with a further illustrated advertisement leaf for Adventure Serials by Stanton at rear. One in the series of colour covers by Stanton for the First Niter and then After Hours series published by Stanley Malkin in the 1960s when Malkin set Stanton up in a small apartment on the proviso of turning out four covers a month (which Stanton could do in a week). The covers often featured lesbian themes or were female-centric, reversing gender roles and casting women as the physical aggressors and men as compliant and fragile. Many of the covers are considered some of Stanton’s best colour work.
Crease to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel and first couple of leaves. Minor creasing to upper joint. Very Good Condition.
AU$250.00
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