THE HOODS TAKE OVER

by Ovid Demaris, Barye Phillips, novel, cover art

$15 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. Sharp copy of the author's second book, set in a Los Angeles already under the control of an organized crime boss, who from time to time has to fend off the New York mafia. Hubin, p.113. Item #2559 First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo 18cm ; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 160pp.

• Binding: Paperback

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