BookScans.com Find plenty of vintage paperback & more.
Title
BookScans
Description
The goal of the Bookscans Project is to provide a visual catalog of ALL vintage American paperbacks (for my purposes, this is roughly the first 20 years of paperback-sized books; those printed before 1960 and/or having a 25¢ or 35¢ cover price). Collectors will probably declare this goal so lofty as to be impossible. They're right, of course, but even at its conception, Bookscans is the largest site of its type in the world. With the help of others, we just might come close to making it complete; and it'll be totally within the public domain (i.e., its free).
The scans are not meant to be of superior quality. You won't want to make posters or 8X10 glossies from these (there are other commercial sites featuring the more exotic covers for that purpose). It simply lets the collector see the evolution of cover art by publisher, or see what covers look like in the event he or she is searching for a specific book.
If you have a lot of patience and a fast modem, anyone can download the data base, one picture at a time, for no cost. I am making the entire collection available on CD for a small fee ($5 plus a couple dollars shipping and handling), which will help maintain the site; or I will send it free to anyone sending me 50 or more scans to help fill in the collection. The CD will contain all pictures in the database as of the day of shipping.
Languages
English
Contact
- bookscans.com
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- Belleville Illinois
- United States 62223
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- +1.6183976649
