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Pulp fiction covers

A variety of pulp fiction titles and formats are held as part of Special Collections & Archives' (SCA) rare book holdings. Ranging from westerns and hardboiled crime to science fiction, fantasy and exploitation, they reflect changing and emerging societal attitudes about topics such as race, sexuality and technology. Among the selection of pulp fiction covers included here are titles from the B.P. Nichol Library of Science Fiction, the Lesbian Literature Collection and the Black Experience Collection.

Foundation
Illustrated green tinted depiction of a tattooed wrist; a view of stone-like figures and an orb topped tower on a 3D cube with an archway cut through the middle., Cover illustration by Don Punchatz., Ace science fiction classic : 30600
Second foundation
Illustrated orange tinted depiction of stone-like beings and an animal imposed on the sides of two horizontally stacked 3D cubes., Cover illustration by Don Punchatz., Fourth Avon printing, March 1967.