From the early era of paperback books, publishers have understood that sales can be boosted if they decorate their façades with shapely legs, or smoothly rounded breasts, or-best of all-scenes in which one lightly clad individual seeks to inveigle another into carnal congress. That’s been especially true of those responsible for paperback cover art. ![]() Book-cover designers are equally well-versed in the power of sensual temptation. Just ask the producers of TV commercials, or the editors of Playboy, or even the authors of myriad young-adult novels who have discovered they can boost their readership by filling plots with toothsome vampires. Aarons (MacFadden, 1964),įeaturing an illustration by Robert K. (Below, right) The Art Studio Murders, by Edward S. ![]() (Above) The First Quarry, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime, 2008), with cover artwork by Ken Laager.
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