Red Hot (Vintage Paperback, Barbara Nichols cover model)
Gifford, James Noble writing as Ray Booth
New York: Universal / Uni-Book, Circa 1950s. Vintage digest paperback, featuring house favorite model/burlesque dancer Barbara Nichols on the front! Before she made her way to stage and screen, Barbara was a model for major publishing houses who specialized in mature content during the early 1950s. Some of her earliest appearances are vintage paperback & digest covers, w/ great detective/true crime magazine covers leading the way. She would also appear in tiny ads for photo enlarging showing a young Barbara, perhaps an early test photo. Early in the series. Woman's intimate memoirs of love. Reader copy. Steve Sullivan, "Glamour Girls: The Illustrated Encyclopedia," #549, 1999. [Book ID 125203] [Vintage Paperbacks (VP)]