Posts tagged 50s

Avon Book #546, 1953, original publication. The Hoodlums by John Eagle. “These are the hoodlums… and violence is their business”

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Signet Book #699, 1951 (1st edition: E.P. Dutton, 1947). I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane.

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Bantam Book #EP7, 1963 (1st edition: Dutton, 1950). Hot Rod by Henry Gregor Felsen. “The thrill-packed story of a daring young driver”

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Kozy Books #K121, 1961, original publication. Diploma Dolls by Orrie Hitt. 

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Cardinal #C-238, 1960 (1st edition: Harper, 1956). Profiles in Courage by Senator John F. Kennedy. 

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Signet #983, 1953 (copyright 1950). Episode in Palmetto by Erskine Caldwell.

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Berkley Medallion #F1310, 1966 (1st edition: William Morrow & Co., 1943). She Died a Lady by Carter Dickson. “A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery”.

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Mentor Book #MT611, 1954. An Analysis of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Female edited by Donald Porter Geddes.

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Dell #R120, 1962 (copyright 1958).  Lightning Strikes Twice by Jean Potts.

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Royal Books #G-27, 1954, original publication.  It’s a pulp two-fer! Confessions of a Psychiatrist by Henry Lewis Nixon. “Every boudoir was his office, every patient his plaything…”  AND, The Woman He Wanted by Daoma Winston. “He was a brute who lived and loved like an animal - a carnivorous beast!”

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