others

As the BookScans Project progressed over the past few years, it soon became evident that changes would often be mandated due to sheer growth. I tried to corral that growth by setting rather narrow limits.

Originally, the scans on the site were meant to be from books that were printed during the first twenty-one years of American mass market paperback publishing, roughly 1939 through 1959. I later expanded the criteria to include 25¢ and 35¢ books printed after that period. My intent was to include "runs" of books to their conclusion; the Dell D-series, for example, and the complete Ace original series of books.

This section contains books that are from publishers that were too small to be included in the original list that you see on the Database Index Page. It also contains American publishers that were established in the 1960's and 70's, and it includes images from Harlequin and Collins White Circle (both from Canada).

You're going to see a lot of "Sleaze" covers here, as well.

Since I have opened the site up to include contributed images of books from the 60's and 70's, I've had a hard time keeping pace. In just two years, my "Others" section has grown ten-fold. I will be adding new publishers and new images as often as I can. I'd like to particularly thank the contributors of covers in this section for their patience.

Please note: As the number of scans for one of the publishers in this section exceeds 200, I will move it out of the "Other Publishers" folder and into its own folder in the BookScans Database. Belmont, DAW, Lancer, Macfadden and Paperback Library are the most recent publishers to be moved out of this section and onto the main BookScans Database Index page.

Enjoy.

This folder was updated in March 2010