About Gould Press

Literature was never meant to be locked in ivory towers or dust-jacketed hardcovers. For much of the 20th century, the real revolution happened on spinning racks in drugstores, bus terminals, and newsstands. It happened in the mass-market paperback.

At Gould Press, we believe that the cheap paperback was the most democratizing force in modern literacy. These books—often lurid, sometimes lethal, always accessible—carried the rawest forms of personal expression directly to the public. They shaped public opinion, challenged censorship, and documented the evolving American psyche in real-time.

Today, that history is crumbling. The acid paper is browning; the spines are cracking. We aim to save and preserve as many as we can.

Our purpose is twofold: Preservation and Continuation.

Through The Vintage Book Vault, we restore and protect the physical artifacts of this era, honoring the cover art and the stories that defined a generation. We believe that saving a book is saving a piece of history.

In the near future, we will carry the torch forward to champion a new generation of the lurid, the lethal, the hard-boiled, and the double-crossed. We will support the freedom of speech through storytelling and the wild, unfiltered creativity that the golden paperback era represented.

We are here for the books that were read, battered, and loved. We are here for the stories that refuse to die. We are here for the stories still to be told.

Women's Barracks, Tereska Torres - Gold Medal Book (379), 1955. Cover artist: Barye Phillips.