Pulp Faulkner (1)

[William Faulkner, Sanctuary (1931) and Requiem for a Nun (1951). New York: New American Library, 1954.]

Above, a scene from Sanctuary, with Horace Benbow, Miss Reba, and Temple Drake.

I can’t imagine many readers who picked up this volume in a drugstore making their way through the 336 pages of tiny type. The cover illustration is by James Avati, who also did the cover art for the 1953 paperback edition of The Catcher in the Rye. In 2011 The New York Times had an article about Avati’s covers.

See also Nobel Prize Pulp at Dreamers Rise.

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