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Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. Very Good. Item #32826
Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (16cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained orange; 190pp. Light shelf wear, most notably at spine crown, front hinge starting, textblock a bit toned as usual, else Very Good.
Uncommon and early sleaze novel by the noted author of the hardboiled detective series featuring used car salesman Russell Haxby. Newsstand Library, one of the more "unsavory and out-of-the-mainstream publishers...was notorious among its hapless authors for 'editing' books by throwing out the opening chapters of as much as necessary to fit a preordained page count" (Server, p. 270). Which would explain why this novel seems to begin in the middle of a sentence.
Reference: Lee Server: Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers (2014).
Price: $250.00