Dell Publishing was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte. In the 1920s and 1930s it published a variety of magazines, including the so-called “pulps,” as well as comic books. Beginning in 1943 the company began its foray into paperback publishing, which consisted mostly of reprints of hardcover mystery novels, but later included westerns and…
One of the great features of the Dell paperback mysteries published between 1943-1952, the maps on the back covers:...
Dell used maps as a standard feature for a significant amount of time: 1943 - 1951. In the Dell 25¢ reprint series, 577 books had back covers of maps or designs. Of those 577 original mapbacks, 25 exactly duplicated previous maps, so there were 552 different maps in the series. Of these, 24 revised earlier maps, so all together 528 original maps exist in the 25¢ series. The decline of the maps was part of an overall re-design instituted by Frank Taylor, executive editor. At the time many readers complained about the omission of the maps, but the kinds of books Dell was beginning to publish then did not need maps and having an in-house artist prepare them was expensive. For a short period the maps were revived in a more decorative form by Walter Brooks "if the books demanded them". But they never became a standard feature after 1951; collectors thus have only 577 books with maps on the back covers. stevensteinbock.blogspot.com/2006/12/collecting-dell-mapb...
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