
1956 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips

1956 Gold Medal paperback original
all cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
10th with private eye Shell Scott




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