Some memorable paperbacks

Since I’ve been working on some paperback covers lately, I thought I’d look around the web and try to find some of the ones that made an impression on me growing up.
There weren’t any books in my house when I was a kid.  My parents grew up in farms and small towns back in Cuba.  They both went up to 6th grade and started working on the cigar and sugar farms after that, so books weren’t part of their world.  When we came over to the U.S., the first books I was introduced to were in school.  The teacher would bring out a box of paperbacks for the class and start handing them out.  Looking back, I think this was one of the first times I was introduced to American illustration, it was back in the mid-80’s, when I was in Junior High.
One of my favorite paperback covers was for “Catcher in the Rye”, above.  Now that I look at it again, I notice some of the things that show up in my own illustration work, kind of strange—the line, flat colors, etc.  I did spend a lot of time looking at that cover in school.  When I was a teen, I had very little in common with the main character, Holden Caulfield.   I had no idea what he was talking about  most of the time—New York, Central Park, etc., it was so different from the environment I was in.  I enjoyed the book because it gave me a look into some other world I didn’t know anything about.   I don’t have the name of the illustrator for the “Catcher in the Rye” book cover above.  If anyone knows who the artist is, please let me know.