
cover art by George Rozen

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


1961 Signet paperback original
cover art by Robert Abbett
18th in the series with private eye Peter Chambers
better image than previously posted

Philip Van Doren Stern (September 10, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story “The Greatest Gift“, published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
1951 Farrar hardcover as Love Is the One with Wings

1951 Signet reissue – first paperback release
published in the UK in 1952 as It’s Always Too Late to Mend and in 1955 as Manhunt



cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)