Evil Come, Evil Go by Whit Masterson, 1962 Permabooks edition
This is the 1962 Permabooks edition of Evil Come, Evil Go by “Whit Masterson” – a pen name for the writing partnership of Robert Allison Wade and H. Bill Miller.
The cover features a large, cropped setting of Plain Gothic No. 6011, one of many sans-serif wood types offered by Hamilton Manufacturing Co. in the 20th century. Though there’s a possibility this was composed with photo-type adaptations of the original font, the tight-not-touching letterspacing matches a look common with large wood type, where the sidebearings of each piece of type are often cut as close to the letter as possible. I also enjoy the titling-friendly design of the comma, with a shortened descending stroke to allow for tight linespacing, and a height that matches the horizontal stroke of the ‘E’ beside it.
After spotting this book cover recently at Vintage Bookseller, I used it as an excuse to finally make a typeface page for Plain Gothic No. 6011 here at Fonts In Use.
The supporting type at the bottom and on the back is Alternate Gothic, with some small settings of what looks like Copperplate Gothic running along the spine.
