Love Was Cheap and Life Was High: Postcards from Paperback Cover Art of the 40s and 50s

by Jay Barry Kaplan

Nostalgia for the 1940s and 1950s has become rampant with rediscovered treasures such as cars with big fins and Fiesta dinnerware increasing in popularity. Kaplan capitalizes on this trend with a book of full-color reproductions of cover art from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Big Sleep, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020339879
• ISBN13: 9780020339878
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

The coolest postcard book ever.

I received this as a gift, and I loved it! The postcards are prints of book covers from the 40's and 50's. Some are famous, others are just cool to look at. Buy two. One to keep. One to send.