THE WEB OF EVIL

by Lucille Emerick

$300 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York: Dell, 1951 . First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the woman running from the house designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later. Very good. Item #50463 First published by Doubleday in 1948, WEB OF EVIL was turned into a Dell Mapback three years later. The original Doubleday cover design features some elements of the gothic romance iconography — a

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