First McGinnis cover art edition, first printing; paperback.
"An original novel/ A Dell First Edition", "New Dell edition: First printing January 1962" statements to the copyright page; .40c price and code K116 to the front cover.
The paperback original first edition published by Dell in 1958 bore code B121, a .25C price and had cover art by Victor Kalin.
This "New Dell edition" with sensual cover art by the sought-after hard boiled book illustrator Robert McGinnis, is more elusive than the 1958 edition.
Jerry Jamison goes for the good life and finds himself entangled in a wave of crime.
A decent collectible copy.
Some spine lean, a trace of rubbing to the front cover's lower shelf-edge and fore-edge and to the upper spine edge, else firm, solid and very good plus in green and blue-gray glossy stiff-card wraps with front cover art by Bob McGinnis depicting a beautiful bathing-suited lady (with her shoulder strap alluringly hanging down), languishingly leaning with sun-hat in hand against a long-dead tree trunk; original printed "Dell First Edition", code K116 and 40c price still intact to the front cover and with author photo by Maxwell Coplan to the rear cover; all page edges green, as issued.
Mass market paperback.
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