BETWEEN THE COVERS 112 Nicholson Rd Rare Books, Inc. Gloucester City, NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Catalog 178: A Summer Romance
[email protected] It’s been a while since the last Between the Covers Romance Catalog. confined. These novels shed light on contemporary views of marriage, We’ve continued to buy and sell these sorts of books privately, but frankly adultery, out of wedlock birth, and other social “conditions.” And mostly it has taken us a considerable amount of time to gather another good crop they are just fun to find, buy, read, and collect. in what we consider to be proper collectible condition. These books have Recently, more attention has been paid by bibliographers and other book become scarcer, and increasingly we have encountered books we do not historians to dustjackets and the artists who designed them. We suspect want to aquire or offer: later printings, inferior copies, books with tattered, this will continue to be the case. To begin to justly acknowledge the strangely altered, or supplied dustwrappers. While we might throw in the talented and often uncredited jacket artists, we have noted them when occasional reprint, we mostly try to avoid those copies. possible, more so than in our previous catalogs. You will find many well- We’ve already explained in previous catalogs why you should want these known artists represented here, as well as many names that are less familiar, books. Generally they weren’t preserved by institutional libraries, or even to jacket art aficionados. A few of these are listed below.