Vintage Paperbacks, LLC was created by long time collector and vintage paperback researcher/aficionado, Lowell Wilson, to buy, sell and promote vintage paperbacks of all genres. A New Yorker by birth, he currently resides in a suburb north of Tampa, Florida, with his wife and daughter. Lowell holds a B.S. in Professional Computer Studies from Pace University in New York City. He spends his recreational time collecting and selling vintage paper, mostly paperbacks and digests, for which he spends an inordinate amount time analyzing who painted the glorious covers from the golden age (1939-1960) of vintage paperback art.
Lowell is the author of "The Art of Raymond Johnson" a comprehensive biography and checklist of the works of Raymond Johnson, a pioneer in the genre of "Good Girl" cover art in the paperback field from the 1940's through the 1960's, which was published in Illustration Magazine No. 77 in August 2022. This lengthy article was the first biographical work on the artist, whose work was well known to collectors but whose life was previously undocumented.
A Peanuts fan since infancy, Lowell has collected all of the Rinehart & Co. and Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc. softcover "Full Books" published between 1952 and 1974. Seeing the confusion on the internet and in the marketplace about what constituted true first printings of the various Peanuts books, he embarked on a project to document the Peanuts First Editions as he was winding down his Raymond Johnson research in 2022 and brought the effort forward to publication in 2024.