Case of the Nervous Nude # 872 by Craig, Jonathan - 1959

Canada: Gold Medal Book., 1959. Book. Illus. by NUDE Girl = GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover!. Fair / Good, This is a Reading. Soft cover. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 160 pages. "The battered old Plymouth drove slowly through the streets of Greenwich Village. The two men inside were tall and pleasant-looking and seemed to be enjoying a private joke. A quieter, nicer pair of men you'd never hope to see. And that's where you'd be worng. There ween't two more deadly men on the island of Manhattan. Or two smarter. Or two less average. Detective Peter Selby and Detective Stanly Rayder of the New York City Police Department had just left the scene of a particularly brualmurder. They were looking for a young and beautiful girl. They didn't know her name but they did know she was next on the killer's list.">> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; cover scuffing; spine slant; tape to lower covers… Read More

Author is pseudonym of Frank E. Smith. Good Girl Art. Pete Selby/Stan Rayder Series #6.

Gold Medal, 1959. First Printing. Gold Medal 872. Very Good condition.

[JONATHAN CRAIG]. THE CASE OF THE NERVOUS NUDE. Gold Medal / Fawcett, Greenwich, Conn., 1959. First Edition, First printing. True first edition Fawcett #872 with the original 25 cent price on the front cover. Condition: VG+. Appears unread, colors on covers are punchy and vibrant with much of the original gloss, creases to corner extremities, slight spine slant, creases near the middle of spine and on mid section of both rear panel, front cover, mildly age toned pages typical of vintage paperbacks of this age, pages are clean, unmarked and binding tight. Overall a very good plus to about near fine copy. Features protagonists Pete Selby and Stan Rayder, this is the sixth and final book in the series. Vintage paperback original first edition, collectible. 160 pgs. 16mo.

Manchester (1960): Muller / Gold Medal Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. 1st UK Paperback Original. G, Edgewear, tears, creases, spine lean, foxing, browning. A Detective Peter Selby crime novel. Gold Medal 438. Photo on request..

Gold Medal, 1959-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Used good.

Longanesi, 1960. Very Good. Gialli Probiti 86. Vintage Italian hardcover in dust jacket, translation of "Case of the Nervous Nude" (Fawcett, 1959). Digest-size hardcover in jacket, photographic cover featuring Barbara Nichols, reclining on concrete steips in black heels and lavender dress, bleach blonde curls, ruby red lips, and tan nylons. Nichols would star in the Spring Break flick "Where the Boys Are" (1960), and was a model for major publishing houses who specialized in "girlie" magazines of the 1950s. Some of her earliest appearances are vintage paperback and digest covers, great detective/true crime magazine covers of the 1960s, and in tiny ads for photo enlarging showing a young Barbara, perhaps an early test photo.Other Gialli editions credited models on the jacket flap, not so here. Giusto Vaglieri's "Gialli" imprint was one of Italy's finest, offering translations of (mostly) American crime fiction with winking cat face mascot, tiny man in clutched fist illustration on the rear panels,… Read More