I couldn't help but notice the similarities between this cover and Warren Zevon's mascont Little Velvet.
"Academy Award" by Orrie Hitt (Screen & Radio Weekly, September 4, 1938)
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More than a decade before he would chronicle the decadence of suburban
America, Orrie Hitt bared the bruised soul of an aspiring songwriter
clashing a...
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That's Old Velvet Nose.
Hey Nathan, both images are striking. When i was young, my mother used to read all the gothic and mystery writers like Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon G. Eberhardt, Mary Stewart. She would pass the books on to me. I remember liking MRR in particular. I do not recall reading Sight Unseen. I'm sure i would remember that cover!
It is based on a very well-known painting by Vincent Van Gogh.
Greetings from Argentina!
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