Hilarious! That's exactly how my father's paperbacks looked -- and the authors were Faulkner, Miller, Baldwin, Celine and Aldous Huxley!
Sanctuary's cover was my favorite: A mountebank sailor leering at the decolletage of a hooker under a streetlamp. The cover of Huxley's
Crome Yellow was all ellipses-maximized salaciousness: "Shocking . . . erotic . . . bold!" I always imagined the original sentence read, "This book is neither shocking nor erotic, nor is it bold."
And then there's this (a novel in which one of the main characters dies, can't reconcile himself to being bodiless, and slips into permanent amnesia just as he's reborn): "Bold . . . daring . . . complete and
unabridged (implying there's verbal nudity):
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