The Baroness series by Paul Kenyon
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Dec 5th, 2012. Artwork published in
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11 Comments on “The Baroness series by Paul Kenyon”
According to Bookmaniac Mark Simonson, this version could be Headliners International’s neo-Bookman.
Wow, that’s ugly — though I’d like to know how the story turns out.
The Baroness adventures are actually quite good, despite the cover art work! It’s got graphic violence and sex, well ahead of its time, I should say.
On the contrary, I find these covers to be delightful! From the album description by Steve at Flickr:
That look like Neo-Bookman (Headliners)?
Thanks for the reminder. Yes, with that a, it sure looks like it. When Mark Simonson suggested it was the Headliners version (see the first comment), we didn’t have a separate page for neo-Bookman yet. Now we do. Adjusted.
A Touch of Love also used neo-Bookman too
Yes, that’s true for a whole series of paperbacks by Barbara Cartland. These were published by Corgi in the UK.
I am thinking or predicting that Neo-Bookman by The Headliners was created in 1966. I found an album from that year, At the White House Conference by Moms Mabley, which uses a modified version on the cover.
Yes, that sounds plausible, thanks. It’s not yet shown in a Headliners catalog from 1962, and we haven’t yet found any in-use examples from before 1966. (You previously pointed out an album released in 1966 that uses neo-Bookman in unmodified form, It’s Over by Jimmie Rodgers.) I’ve added the date to the typeface page.
The Jimmie Rodgers one is the one i’m contrib