I bought this 1947 newspaper photo on eBay. It came with a charming caption: He's a Clerk, Not a Millionaire Hollywood, Californi...

Arthur Hawkins, Jr. was a prolific book cover designer in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. He designed the iconic jacket of The Postman Always Rin...

" Kate Smith , honorary chairman of the radio board of the Victory Book Campaign with the nationally known illustrator C. B. Falls, w...

I grew up just 2-and-a-half miles from Pearl S. Buck’s home in Hilltown, Pennsylvania. My family visited the museum there, and we joined the...

I wrote a little about book designer Sol Immerman in my post about his  design of the Armed Services Edition paperbacks . Here’s a little ...

Council on Books in Wartime logo scanned from the copyright page of the book  Report from Red China  (1945). The Council on Books in War...

1941 publicity photo for Gypsy Rose Lee’s first novel, The G-String Murders . (I scanned this from an old magazine tear-out I found on eB...

Poster featuring the VBC's eagle trademark designed by Clarence P. Hornung. Image from The University of Illinois library . In 194...