Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Erle Stanley Gardner, Brett Halliday, Ernest Hemingway, Françoise - Lot met 68 Dell-paperbacks (waarbij 3 ‘map backs’) - 1949-1964

Offered is this collection of 68 paperbacks from the American publisher Dell, published in the period 1949-1964. The fund included detectives, war stories, literature, science fiction and current themes. The books were always designed with great care, the covers were designed by well-known illustrators (see the list below) . Some volumes offered here had 'map backs', back covers with a map of the place where the book took place. There are books by the following authors, some of them more than one:

Alfred Hitchcock, Hervey Allen (2x) , George Bagby, Nicholas Blake, John Dickson Carr, Robert Spencer Carr, Anne Chamberlain, Agatha Christie (6x) , Barnaby Conrad, William R. Cox, George Harmon Coxe (3) , Roald Dahl, Whitney Darrow, Mignon G. Eberhart, A. A. Fair (ps. of Erle Stanley Gardner) , William Faulkner, Bruno Fischer, Ruth Fenisong, John R. Grabach, Stephen Spender, Davis Grubb, Brett Halliday (6) , William M. Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, Dorothy B. Hughes, Henry James, Richard Jessup, Frank Kane, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Jack Lait/Lee Mortimer, Mary Mc. Carthy, William March, Alexander Marshack, A. E. Martin, Mezz Mezzrow/Bernard Wolfe, Arthur Miller, Christopher Monig, Helen Nielsen, Patrick Quentin, Craig Rice, Françoise Sagan (2) , Nevil Shute (4) , Betty Smith, Hendrik Van Loon and Eudora Welty.

The two books by Hervey Allen and one of Agatha Christie's titles have a 'map back. '

The following illustrators created the cover:

Victor Kalin, Armand Seguso, William George, Richard Powers, William Teason, Milton Glaser, Jerry Powell, John Mc. Dermott, Seymour Chwast, Carl Bobertz, Harry Schaare, Bob Mc. Ginnis, Stanley Borack, Robert Shulz, John Alcorn, Walter Brooks, Robert Stanley , James Mitchell, Griffith Foxley, Daniel Schwartz, Mike Ludlow, Robert Maguire, William Rose, Carl Mueller, George Garland, Ray Pease and Jeanette Gisman.
The books have all been read, sometimes carefully, sometimes less so. See the photos for an impression of the condition.