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cover art by James Meese

James Alfred Meese (American, 1917-1971)
cover of The Beautiful and Dead by Ross MacRoss (Gold Medal, 1954).
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Meese

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

his seventh novel under his name. his supervisors at the CIA thought it was great cover for an agent to be a writer

cover art by Ray Johnson

cover art by Barye Phillips

July 1937

cover art by Walter Darr

cover art by Ron Lesser

better image than previously posted

cover art by Wynne W. Davies

not the same Parker who wrote the Spenser books, though this one was a Robert B (for Bogardus) Parker, too

1951 Rinehart hardcover, this the 1952 Dell softcover released the next near

cover art by Robert Stanley

better image than previously posted

art work by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1929 Dutton hardcover

also published as The Bellmer Mystery in the UK in 1930

this the later 1949 Popular Library paperback, with repurposed art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted