By John Snavely In high school in the late fifties I began reading popular adult fiction as a way, I suppose, of learning about being a grown-up. I amassed a collection of paperbacks, most of which were lost over the years after I left home. Around my 40th birthday I began picking up old copies of the paperbacks that had meant so much to me - at thrift shops, garage sales, and used book stores.

WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF VINTAGE PAPERBACK BOOKS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WARNING! Tawdry Town has been set up as a forum for the examination, consideration and exhibition of paperback books produced by both the major publishers and the semi-underground following World World II. Before entering Tawdry Town, please consider that many may find the books on exhibit therein and the attitudes of the ...

Naughty Novels is a section on Grrl.com that pays tribute to sleazy novels and pulp paperback books of the 50's, 60's and 70's.

The Paperback Book: Perfect Union of Form and Function by: Randy D. Ralph, MLIS, Ph.D. In place 1994. Copyright 1994 Randy D. Ralph. The book is the ornament . . . and with any luck you read it. Nicholson Baker, Books as Furniture, The New Yorker 71(June 12, 1995):84-92. The most perfect union of form and function in a book is the mass edition paperback. Paperback books are inexpensive, ...