Sometimes book covers force you to quip against your own preferences. Personally, we love bushes. We’ve highlighted more of them than can we can count and they’re all awesome. Eleonora Georgi and Kuroki Kaoru even had bushes in their armpits, which is also fine, as far as we’re concerned. And of course there’s the immortal Sophia Loren. Anyway, this cover is a really brilliant effort, with a very interesting deep field view, including lights, tents, and even tiny people in the distance below the hemline of the femme fatale’s skirt. The artist behind this great piece is, unsurprisingly, George Gross. We’d love to add the book to our collection, but on principle we can’t go above twenty dollars for these coveted covers because the actual fiction is often terrible. We don’t know anything about George L. Bottari. Maybe he’d be worth the risk, but c’est la vie. So many books, so little shelf space. The copyright on this is 1953.
Sure, she's pretty, but you should reconsider. She works on the midway billed as the Incredible Bearded Lady, if you catch my drift.