Fools Die on Friday: A Donald Lam and Bertha Cool Mystery by Fair, A.A. [Erle Stanley Gardner] - 1951

New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Book. Illus. by Robert Stanley. Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. Edge wear and small amounts of paper loss on the spine. Staining along the top edge, front cover, same color as the publisher's green stain to the page edges. The bottom edge of the page block is discolored with the appearance of staining, but there is no evidence of bleeding to adjacent parts of the book as usually occurs. See the photo accompanying this listing. The binding is tight and square. Very slight toning to the pages. Risqué, color cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Original publisher (William Morrow and Company) date of 1947, but no date for this First Paperback Edition. The OCLC entry for this title states that Dell #542 was published in 1951 and that the suggestive cover art was changed for the 1953 printing, citing "Lyles, W.H. Putting Dell on the Map." 256 pages with illustrated map on the rear cover..