Mapback is a term used by paperback collectors to refer to the earliest paperback books published by Dell Books, beginning in 1943. The books are known...

B50. Blood Money. Dell #53, 1944. Mapback reprint of Bestseller Mystery B40. Blood Money. Dell #486, 1951. Mapback reprint of Bestseller Mystery B40....

known as "mapbacks", and that nomenclature has lasted among collectors to this day. The maps were "delicate and detailed". The novels in the mapback series...

1938, Hardback, 301 pp 1946, Dell Books, Paperback, (Dell number 105 [mapback]), 192 pp 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 682), 206 pp...

Death From a Top Hat The 1945 Dell Edition, mapback No. 69 Author Clayton Rawson Language English Series The Great Merlini Genre Mystery novels Publisher...

1937, Hardcover 1949, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 293 [mapback]) 1951, Pan Books, Paperback, (Pan number 176) 1957, Fontana Books (Imprint...

Paperback, 239 pp 1948, Dell Books, Paperback, 192 pp (Dell number 257 [mapback]) 1953, Pan Books, Paperback, 189 pp (Pan number 264) 1959, Fontana Books...

1941, hardcover 1944, New York: Dell (mapback by Gerald Gregg) #45, 1944, paperback; new edition (with new mapback by Robert Stanley) #540, 1951, paperback...

by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., in 1937, and later in paperback by Dell as mapback #177 and, later, by other publishers. Collins Crime Club published the...

Hardback, 192 pp 1947, Dell Books, Paperback, 191 pp (Dell number 187 [mapback]), 1959, Pan Books, Paperback, 188 pp (Great Pan G259) 1962, Fontana Books...

Sisters, Dell, unnumbered paperback with a pictorial back cover but not a mapback, 1947. Dick Tracy made his film debut in Dick Tracy (1937), a 15-chapter...

novel, not illustrated. Unnumbered, but usually considered part of Dell's mapback series) Blondie's Family (1954) Treasure/Wonder Book (a full-color storybook...

Dunlap, hardcover 1943, New York: Dell #9 (mapback by George A. Frederiksen); second printing, #495 (mapback by Robert Stanley), paperback no date, London:...

American illustrator. She created the rear cover artwork of at least 150 Dell Mapback novels between 1942–1951. Belew also served as the letterer for the Mary...

published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941, and later in paperback by Dell as mapback #115 and, subsequently, by other publishers. It is one of his three works...

were reprinted as Scotland Yard: Department of Queer Complaints, Dell mapback edition, 1944.) Merrivale, March and Murder - 1991 'The Department of Queer...

(New York), Hardback, 310 pp 1947, Dell Books (New York), Paperback (Dell mapback number 199), 224 pp 1956, Pan Books, 1956, Paperback (Pan number 366),...

retailed at $2.00. 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 60 [mapback]), 224 pp 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 685), 251 pp...

Hardcover, 298 pp 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 145 [mapback]), 223 pp 1952, Pan Books, Paperback, (Pan number 200) 1955, Penguin Books...

hardcover. Many of these edited versions were later republished as Dell mapbacks. In the late 1960s, Hammett's writing was rediscovered and republished...

275 pp 1949, Dell Books (New York), 1949, Paperback, (Dell number 319 [mapback]), 223 pp 1953, Pan Books, 1953, Paperback, (Pan number 250), 190 pp 1958...

690), 255 pp 1950, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 391 [mapback]), 224 pp 1961, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 190...

hardcover, 270 pp 1946, Dell Books, paperback, 224 pp (Dell number 172 mapback) 1959, Fontana Books (imprint of HarperCollins), paperback, 191 pp 1965...

(priced at $2.00). 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 46 [mapback]), 224 pp 1956, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192...

United States Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 240 pp (in Dell mapback #121) Preceded by Death from a Top Hat  Followed by The Headless Lady ...

Hardcover, 253 pp 1943, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 8 [mapback]) 1953, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 929), 224 pp (under slightly...

Dell Publishing, US, mapback paperback edition under the title The Unafraid [Kiss the Blood Off My Hands] (part of the Dell Mapback series, catalog Dell...

United States Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 240 pp (in Dell mapback #176) Preceded by The Footprints on the Ceiling  Followed by No Coffin...

1941, New York: Triangle, October 1941, hardcover 1945, New York: Dell (mapback by Gerald Gregg) #70, January 1945, as The Red Bull: A Nero Wolfe Story...

hardback, 250 pp. 1952, Dell Books, paperback, 224 pp. (Dell number 633 [mapback]) 1960, Dell Books, paperback, as The Mousetrap and Other Stories (Dell...