Pulp Art by Robert Lesser, Random House / Gramercy Books 1997 hardcover. Non-fiction, mystery / art theme.
In honor and respect to Robert Lesser, who passed recently, I decided to reread his book Pulp Art, which I bought and read years ago.
I’m glad I did, as I enjoyed the text, sidebars and artwork a lot. Though most of the artwork shown in the book was new to me the first time I read this book, much of it is more familiar since I have books by Illustrated Press on some of them, including Walter Baumhofer and H. J. Ward.
This is an informative and entertaining book.
Contents:
- Introduction: Populist Culture and Pulp Art
- Science Fiction, Science Fact and Fantasy: Painted Answers
- The New Knights
- The Noblest Savage
- Ladies In Terror
- To Dare the Devil: Aviation, War and Western Art
- Appendix I: Vox Populi, letters to the Editor
- Appendix II: Original Pulp Paintings, A Collector’s Guide
- Appendix III: Artists Biographies
- Bibliography
- Index
Tip the Wink 
Great choice! I love the covers in this book and the essays on the artists.
Yep. I thought since I read he died recently it would be a good choice.
and it was.
Looks gorgeous!
It is, Patti.
I liked this one too.
I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it the first time I read it.
We have a copy of this with a different cover. I have pulled it out and I am going to go through it right now. Thanks for reminding me.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know of any but this edition.
I looked the title up on abebooks.com and it looks like there are three different covers. I am no expert but… it looks like the one I have is a reprint from 2005 and the one you have is the original printing. Our copy has a painting of the Shadow on the cover (on page 67 in the book). The third one appears to have come later (2009?) and has a painting of a blond and a man (page 72 in the book).