G-352 FRANCIS LEARY Fire And Morning (1959; cover by Geygan; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged"; historical fiction)

G-371 THEODOR PLIEVIER Berlin (c.1959; ACE Giant edition; listed as "abridged"; non-fiction - WWII)

G-376 J. HARVEY HOWELLS The Big Company Look (1959; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-382 C. T. RITCHIE The Willing Maid (1959; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged"; cover by Geygan; historical fiction)

Cicero T. Ritchie is the complete author name (used initals on cover).

G-388 RICHARD O'CONNOR The Sulu Sword (1959; cover by Verne Tossey; historical fiction)

G-390 RUSSELL FOREMAN Long Pig (1959; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged"; historical fiction)

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G-402 DANIEL P. MANNIX Kiboko (1959; ACE Giant edition; listed as "abridged"; historical fiction)

G-414 ALEXANDRE DUMAS The Companions of Jehu (1960; 1st ACE printing; ACE Giant edition; listed as "abridged and adapted for the modern reader"; cover by Geygan; historical fiction)

G-440 ANDREW HEPBURN Letter of Marque (1960; 1st ACE printing; historical fiction)

G-454 ANNE POWERS Ride East! Ride West! (1960; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged;" historical fiction)

G-474 LELAND LOVELACE Lost Mines and Hidden Treasure (1960; ACE Giant edition; 1st ACE printing; listed as "complete and unabridged"; nonfiction)

G-474 (back cover)

G-480 JOHN BRICK The Strong Men (1960; ACE Giant edition; listed as "abridged"; historical fiction)

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G-500 GEORGE D. HENDRICKS The Bad Man of the West (1st ACE printing 1961; listed as "complete and unabridged"; non-fiction)

G-502 RICHARD O'CONNOR Pat Garrett (c. 1960; 1963; ACE Giant edition; biography)

G-504 THEODOR PLIEVIER Moscow (c. 1965; listed as "complete and unabridged"; non-fiction - WWII)

G-505 KEN MURRAY Ken Murray's Giant Joke Book (1963; 1st thus; humor)

G-507 JOHN M. FOSTER (Captain, USMCR) Hell in the Heavens (1961; ACE Giant edition; listed as "complete and unabridged"; non-fiction - WWII)

South Pacific airwar in WWII

G-515 SLAVOMIR RAWICZ The Long Walk (1963; listed as "complete and unabridged"; non-fiction)

Slavomir Rawicz was a 24 year old Cavalry officer in the Polish army through 1939. The Russians arrested him immediately after they conquered Eastern Poland, and convicted him of exspionage because he spoke Russian He was sent to Siberia to Labor Camp 303 with a 25 year sentence. He and 6 other prisoners escaped and walked 3000 miles south to India with no maps, equipped only with handmade fur clothing a knife and an axe. Miraculously 4 of them survived even though they crossed the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas with NO other tools. (S'posedly while crossing Nepal, it appears that they encountered the Yeti!)

G-520 JAY SCOTLAND (aka JOHN JAKES) Arena (1963; 1st ACE printing and PBO; cover by Robert Maguire; "swords and sandals"; historical fiction)

G-522 GEORGE CHALLIS (aka MAX BRAND - pseudonym of FREDERICK FAUST) The Firebrand (1963; listed as "complete and unabridged"; "Christians and Saracens"; historical fiction)

G-527 GEORGE CHALLIS (aka MAX BRAND - pseudonym of FREDERICK FAUST) The Bait and The Trap (1963; historical fiction)

G-532 JAY SCOTLAND (aka JOHN JAKES) Traitors’ Legion (1963; listed as "first book publication"; cover by Robert Maguire; historical fiction)

G-537 EDWARD J. RUPPELT Unidentified Flying Objects (c. 1956; 1963; 2nd ACE printing; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-538 ANDRE NORTON Shadow Hawk (1st ACE printing; 1963; historical fiction by the dame of science fiction)

G-538 (back cover)

G-541 JEAN POTTS The Evil Wish (1964; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic/Mystery Novel)

Original cover art for G-541. Gouache on board with an image size of 19" x 13.5". Close-up detail. There is some minor markings and discoloration to the extreme edges of the white background. Publisher notations as well as ACE number and title on verso.

G-542 MARTHA ALBRAND (aka KATRIN HOLLAND) Meet Me Tonight (original title: Return To Terror; c. 1960; 1964; 1st thus; ACE Gothic mystery)

G-548 ROHAN O'GRADY Let's Kill Uncle (1964; 1st ACE printing; listed as "complete and unabridged"; frontspiece illustration by Jack Gaughan; mystery/horror)

This novel is the basis for a film, but do not know the title at this time (or whether it made it out of production).

G-550 THEODORA DU BOIS The Listener (1964; 1st printing; ACE Gothic/Mystery Novel; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-552 THEODORA DuBOIS Shannon Terror (1964; ACE Gothic/Mystery Novel)

G-554 GENEVIEVE HOLDEN (aka GENEVIEVE LONG POU) The Velvet Target (c. 1956; 1965; 1st thus; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic Suspense/MysteryNovel)

G-555 URSULA CURTIS The Wasp (cover by Bob Schinella; 1963)

G-558 GENEVIEVE HOLDEN (aka GENEVIEVE LONG POU) Something's Happened to Kate (c. 1958; 1965; 1st thus; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic Suspense/Mystery Novel)

GENEVIEVE HOLDEN is the penname of Genevieve Long Pou. The author of seven mystery novels between 1953 and 1976, she died Sunday, April 22nd, in Atlanta GA at the age of 87 (born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1919). She attended the University of Mississippi for two years before transferring to the University of Georgia. After college, Pou worked on the Birmingham Post and the Idaho Statesman before writing her first mystery in 1953. As a mystery (or more appropriately Gothic suspense/mystery) writer born and raised in Mississippi, she is one of the many authors honored by being included in the University of Mississippi's online archive exhibit entitled Murder With Southern Hospitality: An Exhibition of Mississippi Mysteries.

G-565 URSULA CURTIS The Deadly Climate (1965; ACE Gothic/Mystery Novel)

Original cover art for the ACE Gothic / Mystery novel The Deadly Climate by Ursula Curtis. Detail of woman. Gouache on board with an image size of 18.5" x 12.5".

G-566 THERESA CHARLES (aka IRENE MAUDE SWATRIDGE and CHARLES JOHN SWATRIDGE) Lady In The Mist (alternate title: Nurse Alice in Love; c. 1964; 1965; ACE Gothic/Romance Novel)

Original cover art for the 1965 ACE edition of the Gothic/Romance novel entitled Lady in the Mist. Artist is unknown. Oil on board and image size is 18" x 11." There is some very minor surface scuffing. Lady in the Mist was originally published under the title of Nurse Alice in Love in UK by Hale (hard cover) in 1964.

G-567 THERESA CHARLES (aka IRENE MAUDE SWATRIDGE and CHARLES JOHN SWATRIDGE) The Shrouded Tower (alternate title: The Man For Me; c.1965; 1965; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic/Romance Novel)

The Shrouded Tower was originally published under the title of The Man For Me by Hale (hard cover) in UK in 1965.

G-572 JOY PACKER The Man In The Mews (c. 1964; 1965; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-575 MARGARET SUMMERTON Quin's Hide (1966; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-578 MARY PARADISE (aka DOROTHY EDEN) Shadow Of A Witch (c. 1962; 1966; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-583 MARIE GARRATT Festival of Darkness (1966; 1st thus; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Gothic Novel)

The British edition title of this story is Where No Fire Burns. A tag-line on the cover indicates that this is a "prize-winning novel of romantic suspense."

Original cover art for Festival of Darkness. Gouache on board (20" x 15") and unsigned. Publisher notations in the lower left of painting.

G-589 MARGARET SUMMERTON Ring Of Mischief (c. 1965; 1966; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-593 MARY PARADISE (aka DOROTHY EDEN) Face Of An Angel (1966; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-594 CHARLES W. RUNYON The Bloody Jungle (c. 1966; 1st ACE printing and PBO; cover by Gerald McConnell)

G-598 BARBARA JAMES Bright Deadly Summer (cover by Lou Marchetti; 1966; ACE Gothic Novel)

Original cover art by Lou Marchetti for Bright Deadly Summer.

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G-603 CAROLYN WILSON The Scent of Lilacs (1966; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-604 JESS SHELTON Daktari (1966; first thus; photo cover)

Another cross-over TV series paperback edition with16 pages of photos from the television series. A very good reference (well-indexed and written) on TV Tie-In volumes such as Daktari is by Kurt Peers (1999, 2nd edition) TV Tie-Ins: A bibliography of American TV tie-in paperbacks. TV Books, NY, 364 pp.

G-612 LEAL HAYES Harlequin House (1967; ACE Gothic Mystery)

G-616 MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Souvenir Of Monique (1967; 1st ACE printing; ACE Gothic Novel)

One of the few ACE non-fantasy or non-science fiction novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley under her own name and not a pseudonym. MZB also wrote a number of lesbiana stories for other publishers.

G-621 ELIZABETH KELLIER (aka ELIZABETH KELLY) Matravers Hall (original title: The Return of Nurse Maine; c.1962; 1967; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-624 FRANCINE DAVENPORT (aka VELMA TATE) The Secret of the Bayou (1967; listed as "first book publication"; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-629 ELIZABETH KELLIER (aka ELIZABETH KELLY) Nurse Missing (original title: Nurse to a Stranger; 1961; 1967; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Nurse Romance/Mystery)

G-635 LENA BROOKE McNAMARA Pilgrim's End (1967; probably 1st thus; ACE Gothic Novel)

Note the white block on which the letter-number series is placed. This is why I am cautious about the printing attribution.

G-643 JEAN VICARY Saverstall (1967; 1st ACE printing; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-651 ELIZABETH SALTER Once Upon A Tombstone (c. 1965; 1967; 1st thus; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-653 ARLENE HALE (aka MARY ARLENE HALE) Doctor's Daughter (1967; listed as “first book publication”; ACE Nurse Romance)

MARY ARLENE HALE (1924-1982) also wrote under the names Tracy Adams, Gail Everett, Arlene Hale, Mary Hale, and Lynn Williams.

G-658 RONA RANDALL (aka RONA SHAMBROOK) Leap In The Dark (1967; cover by Lou Marchetti; ACE Nurse Romance)

Original cover art for Leap in the Dark. Artist was Lou Marchetti (1920-1992) and is rendered on a thick piece of illustration board (image area 11.5" x 18.5").

G-662 ELISABETH KYLE The Second Mally Lee (original title: Mally Lee; cover by Leone; c. 1947; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-666 ELIZABETH KELLIER (aka ELIZABETH KELLY) Wayneston Hospital (1967; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-672 ARLENE HALE (also writes as LYNN WILLIAMS) University Nurse (1967: ACE Nurse Romance)

G-676 NANCY BUCKINGHAM (aka JOHN SAWYER and NANCY BUCKINGHAM SAWYER) Storm in the Mountains (alternate title: Heart of Marble; 1967; listed as "first book publication"; cover by Bob Schinella; ACE Gothic Mystery Novel)

This is actually a "nurse romance" packaged with gothic suspense/mystery overtones.

G-679 WILLO DAVIS ROBERTS Nurse At Mystery Villa (1967; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-684 BARBARA JAMES Beauty That Must Die (1968; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-686 RAY DORIEN The Odds Against Nurse Pat (original title: Red-Head Nurse; c.1958; 1967; 1st ACE printing; listed as "complete and unabridged"; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-696 Arlene Hale (aka Mary Arlene Hale) Emergency Call (1968; ACE Nurse Romance)

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G-700 ELIZABETH SALTER Will To Survive (c. 1958; 1968; 1st ACE printing; frontspiece by Jack Gaughan; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-702 WILLIAM JOHNSTON The Flying Nun: Miracle At San Tanco (1968; photo cover; rear plate also has photo from TV show)

G-707 EDWINA MARLOW (aka T. E. HUFF) The Master of Phoenix Hall (1968; ACE Gothic Novel)

The Master of Phoenix Hall was also published under the same title using the pseudonym Jennifer Wilde.

G-711 RONA RANDALL (aka RONA SHAMBROOK) Nurse Stacey Comes Aboard (1968; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-722 GAIL EVERETT (aka MARY ARELENE HALE) My Favorite Nurse (1968; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-725 WILLIAM JOHNSTON The Flying Nun #2: The Littlest Rebels (1968;1st thus; photo cover)

G-725 (back cover)

Another TV (Screen Gems - ABC TV) spin-off series. A very good reference (well-indexed and written) on TV Tie-In volumes such as The Flying Nun is by Kurt Peers (1999, 2nd edition) TV Tie-Ins: A bibliography of American TV tie-in paperbacks. TV Books, NY, 364 pp.

G-743 Sharon Heath Nurse on Castle Island (1968; ACE Nurse Romance Series)

G-744 ANDREA DELMONICO (aka EULA ATWOOD MORRISON) Chateau Chaumand (1968; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-749 NANCY BUCKINGHAM (aka JOHN SAWYER and NANCY BUCKINGHAM SAWYER) Call Of Glengarron (1968; ACE Gothic Novel)

G-750 ARLENE HALE (aka Mary Arlene Hale) Dr. Barry's Nurse (1968; ACE Nurse Romance)

G-751 MILDRED DAVIS The Dark Place (cover by Jerome Podwil; 1968)

Original cover art for The Dark Place by Jerome Podwil. Signed lower right.

Note that this volume is listed as "first in gothics" on the headline banner and has a stylized woman in a full moon graphic symbol.

G-757 HELEN ARVONEN Remember With Tears (1968: ACE Gothic Novel)

G-765 VIRGINIA K(KESTER) SMILEY Nurse Kate's Mercy Flight (1968; ACE Nurse Romance Series)