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Post by dem bones on Jan 11, 2018 8:13:20 GMT
Steve Holland - The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing (Zeon, 1993) Acknowledgements Brian Stableford - Foreword Introduction
Growing Pains The Rise Of The Mushroom Publishers The New British Pulps The Mushroom Jungle Riders Of The Range "One Of The Sixpenny Dreadfuls" "The Best Of The Tough Gangster Writes" The Trials Of Hank Jansen After The Storm Whatever Happened To The Mushroom Publishers?
Appendix: The Horror Comics Campaign Select Bibliography About The Author IndexBlurb: Cheap paper and lurid covers, the paperbacks of the postwar period were intended to sell in large numbers, and they did. Surprisingly this period of British literary history has never been documented before. So here it is at last, a book for the scholar, the collector or the reader. Steve Holland's study of paperbacks will evoke memories for some, and enlighten others, of the blossoming of the modern paperback from the Mushroom Jungle of postwar backstreet publishing houses.
This book reveals the origins and history of these publishers, together with the story of popular authors and artists of the period. In so doing it has done much to preserve an endangered part of our recent cultural heritage.
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