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Airport is a novel by British-Canadian writer Arthur Hailey. Published by Doubleday in 1968, the story concerns a large metropolitan airport and its operations during a severe winter storm. Plot
The airport novel represents a literary genre that is defined not so much by its plot or cast of stock characters, but by the social function it serves.Designed to meet the demands of a very specific market, airport novels are superficially engaging while not being necessarily profound, usually written to be more entertaining than philosophically challenging.
The leading paperback publishers often hired experienced pulp magazine cover artists, including Rudolph Belarski and Earle K. Bergey, who helped create the look and feel of paperbacks and set an appealing visual standard that continues to this day. Scores of well-known authors were published in paperback, including Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck.
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Cover of Carter Brown's novel Nymph to the Slaughter by Robert McGinnis, 1963. Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) [1] is an American artist and illustrator.McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, [2] and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (his first film poster assignment), [3] Barbarella, and several James Bond and ...
The 154-page paperback was illustrated with cartoons by Kelly Freas who also did the front cover. [citation needed] Another contributor to both Ballantine and the Kurtzman magazines was the cartoonist-author Roger Price. He did two humor books for Ballantine.
Lancer Books was a publisher of paperback books founded by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius that operated from 1961 through 1973. While it published stories of a number of genres, it was noted most for its science fiction and fantasy, particularly its series of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian tales, the first publication of many in paperback format.
Thomas Charles Renwick Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 9, 2019) [1] [2] was a US-born Anglo-Scots illustrator and painter. Long active in a variety of visual formats, he is known for his work in book cover art, portrait painting, poster, advertising and album art.