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Reefer girl
- Title
- Reefer girl / by Jane Manning.
- Author
- Manoff, Ruth.
- Publication
- New York : Detective House, Inc., 1953.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Pulp M36 1953 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Nappi, Rudy.
- Description
- 130 p.; 19 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cameo books ; 330
- Uniform Title
- Cameo books ; 330.
- Subjects
- Heroin abuse > Fiction
- Slums > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Drug abuse > Fiction
- Paperbacks
- Prostitution > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Marijuana abuse > Fiction
- Juvenile delinquency > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Pulp fiction
- Printed wrappers
- Drug abuse and crime > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Printed wrappers.
- Paperbacks.
- Pulp fiction.
- Note
- Ruth Manoff wrote under the pseudonyms Jane Manning and Denise Marcelle.
- "The frank, biting story of a young girl of the slums, and how she was caught in the toils of evil."--From front cover.
- Cover art reproduces a painting by Rudy Nappi.
- "Beauty, talent, love, they all meant nothing to a girl in Jeannie's predicament. All she wanted was to be happy, to be loved, to be safe ... and to make her music so that the world could hear and enjoy it. But she chose the wrong way. She took the way of dope ... and disaster ..."--From back wrapper.
- "Cameo Books / The Best In Original Love fiction!"--From back wrapper.
- The wrapper artist, Rudy Nappi, also painted the wrappers of the Nancy Drew paperbacks from 1953 to 1979, numerous wrappers for the Hardy Boys series, and more than fifty wrappers for pulp and romance paperbacks. The Nappi painting on which the Reefer Girl wrapper was based sold at auction for over $26,290 on Feb. 18, 2010, at Heritage Auctions ("Signature Illustration Art"), in Dallas.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Paperback, with color printed wrappers, with front wrapper depicting beautiful, young woman, blouse revealingly open, smoking cigarette as she sits barefoot in broken, upholstered chair, gazing expectantly across grimy, flophouse room, with neon lights seen through window.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Pulp M36 1953
- OCLC
- 764509743
- Author
- Manoff, Ruth.
- Title
- Reefer girl / by Jane Manning.
- Imprint
- New York : Detective House, Inc., 1953.
- Series
- Cameo books ; 330Cameo books ; 330.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
- Binding
- Paperback, with color printed wrappers, with front wrapper depicting beautiful, young woman, blouse revealingly open, smoking cigarette as she sits barefoot in broken, upholstered chair, gazing expectantly across grimy, flophouse room, with neon lights seen through window.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Nappi, Rudy. Artist
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Pulp M36 1953