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This was the original camera ready artwork used in the production of the 1970 Avon paperback edition of the novel The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen.

The Favorite Game

Artist: Milton Charles
Price:  $850.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Avon Books, Color Photograph, Leonard Cohen, paperback, The Favorite Game
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.

Naked Sinner

Artist: American Artist
Price:  $4,800.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Bart Frame, Bedside Book, erotic, Greenleaf Publishing, Naked Sinner, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

  A captivating, lustful, original cover painting by Victor Kalin created for use as cover art for the 1959 Dell paperback edition of the Scott Jordan mystery Murder on Broadway by Hal Masur. The work was titled The Last Gamble in its hardback incarnation, but the paperback title captures the lurid allure of the mystery of […]

Murder On Broadway

Artist: Victor Kalin
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: erotic, Hal Masur, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, sleaze, Victor Kalin
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

Bold, large and provocative, a sensational scandalous paperback cover painting by Rudy Nappi which was created for use as the cover of French Alley by Matthew Clay. Part of the Star Novels series of digest sized paperbacks released by Publication House, NYC, this steamy novel follows the proclivities of three young attractive women who endure heartbreak and discover rapture […]

French Alley

Artist: Rudy Nappi
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, lesbian, lurid, new orleans, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, risque, Rudy Nappi
Added to Gallery: March 1, 2018

A subversive youth gone wild party scene original cover painting by Peter Driben likely used for a paperback book title published by the Novel Library imprint. During the 1950s a hedonistic bohemian fictional sub-culture existed where teens smoked reefer and engaged in orgiastic exploits while becoming addicted to heroin. In showing these delinquents pursuing their darkest sinful desires, the illustrators of the day seemed to take great joy and this is a prime example of this sort of homage to debauchery.

The Make Out Room

Artist: Peter Driben
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, bohemian, Charles Martignette, illustration, Novel Library, original cover art, paperback, Peter Driben, pin up, pulp, sleaze, subversive
Added to Gallery: February 3, 2018

The aptly titled Teen-Age Terror shows a lurid, youth gone wild, over the top image of a highly sensationalized girl gang initiation. In this oil-on-masonite cover painting, American illustrator James Alfred Meese captured the moral panic over juvenile delinquency that was a focal point of American culture in the 1950s, most notably explored in films like Rebel Without a […]

Teen-Age Terror

Artist: James Alfred Meese
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: James Alfred Meese, James Meese, lurid, original cover art, paperback, rebel without a cause, sleaze
Added to Gallery: December 15, 2017

Pulp and paperback artist Edward Mortiz created this femme fatale artwork as the cover of the 1961 Beacon Books title House Party by Dominique Napier.

House Party

Artist: Edward Moritz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Beacon Books, blonde, Edward Moritz, House Party, original cover art, paperback, risque, sleaze, smoking
Added to Gallery: December 1, 2017

A large format, lurid and iconic paperback cover painting by Verne Tossey that was used as the cover for the 1955 Ace paperback Left Bank Of Desire.

Left Bank Of Desire

Artist: Verne Tossey
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Ace Books, Left Bank Of Desire, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, Verne Tossey
Added to Gallery: November 10, 2017

The 1961 cover painting for the Beacon Book title Wild Body was created by an as-of-yet unidentified American artist. This novel by Manning Clay first appeared in digest form in 1953, our gallery also has that earlier cover painting available for sale. This lurid sleaze pulp fiction offering promises a wild ride — with more […]

Beacon Book Cover for Wild Body

Artist: Unknown American Artist
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Beacon Books, lesbian, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: September 16, 2017

Teen-Age Gangs was created by Rafael Desoto as cover art for a 1954 Popular Library Paperback Book written by Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr. A gritty defining example which shows a bleak sensationalized, youth gone wild culture, which was to captured the moral panic over juvenile delinquency that was a focal point of American culture […]

Teen-Age Gangs

Artist: Rafael Desoto
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Gang, Golden Age, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, subversive, Teen-Age Gangs, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 4, 2017

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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