Draw or Drag by Overholser, Wayne D - 1950

New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1950. Paperback. 192pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Illustrated wraps. The edges of the text block have the publisher's blue stain. Very good. The wraps are rubbed and creased. There are a few minor marks on the front cover, and there is a small stain on the first page. Browned pages. The binding is tight. A Dell Book. Dell 556. Map Back. Cover painting by Bob Stanley. Numerous well-known authors had their books reprinted as Dell Map Backs such as Rex Stout, David Dodge, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett. According to William H. Lyles, author of Putting Dell on the Map: A History of the Dell Paperbacks, "Dell achieved more variety than any of its early competitors. It did so, at first, with an instantly identifiable format of vibrant airbrushed covers for its predominantly genre fiction, varying 'eye-in-keyhole' logos, maps on the back covers, lists of the books' characters, and 'tantalizer-pages.'