Farewell Nikola
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
How to be Topp
Revolt of the Triffids
The Big Eye
   

 

     
Stanley L. Wood (1866–1928) created the striking cover label for Guy Boothbys Farewell Nikola (1901).   John Esrkine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, New York: Popular Library No.147, 1948; cover illustration by Earle K. Bergey (1901–52). Known for obvious reasons as the ‘nipple cover’, Bergey did for the cover picture what Popular Library’s copywriter did for the accompanying blurb: “A gay, witty novel about a lovely woman to whom men first lost their heart, then their heads, and finally their lives!”