Twins

 

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Twin Books

 

Twin Paperbacks

Avon PB Twins

Universal PB Twins

More Uni PB Twins

 

Books + Pulp Mag Twins

 

Popular Library Twins

More Popular Library Twins

Other Book-Mag Twins

 

Twin Pulp Magazine Covers

 

Adventure

Adventure/Sports

More Adventure

Detective

More Detective

Even More Detective

And MORE Detective

And MORE Detective

And MORE Detective

And MORE Detective

Adult & Romance

More Adult & Romance

Horror & Sci Fi

More Sci Fi

Western

More Western

And More Western

And More Western

 

Others

 

Reference Books

More Ref Books

 

Not Quite Twins

 

Non-US Twins

 

Non-US Twins

More Non-US Twins

More Non-US Twins

More Non-US Twins

More Non-US Twins

More Non-US Twins

 

 

 

An interesting practice used by some publishers was to take the cover art from one book and "recycle" it for use on another.

In this section, you'll see instances in which magazine art was also used for paperback cover illustration. Keep in mind that early paperback publishing houses were often offshoots of pulp magazine empires.

I have NOT included reprints of the same book.

   

In a few cases, the artwork was reversed, and sometimes altered, but it had obviously been duplicated.

 

---NOTE---

Click the thumbnail and read the web address to identify the book or mag from which the image was taken. Magazines are identified YEAR FIRST, then month, then date (if applicable).

Let's try it with the images below. The web address, all the way at the end ... just before the ".jpg" ... will give the mag's title, such as "cavalierclassics" and "arogosyweekly" plus the numbers:

       

      194011                     19381022

    November 1940         October 22, 1938

 

Many thanks to Bob Gaines, whose eagle-eye has spotted many of these books just from browsing the BookScans web site. He has also spotted most of the pulp magazine twins around the internet.

 

A Word about US/Non-US Covers:

 

   

 

It was a very common practice for publishers outside the United States to not only reprint an American literary work, but to use the same cover image. Generally, authors and artists were not paid a dime in royalties. It remains an open question as to whether U.S. publishers gave any consent or sold any rights. The covers were almost never actually copied (i.e., photocopied) ... they were reproduced by other artists, some with much more detail than others, as seen in the three images above. Note also that the center book is not the same novel (or even the same author).

 

Attribution:

I have credited the scans in this section to the people who found the twins, not necessarily the people who contributed the scans in the first place. In many cases, especially those containing pulp magazine "twins," the images were gleaned from the far corners of the World Wide Web. It takes a special talent to be able to spot these things and then find the match. I wish I had it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated November, 2011