Maxwell Bodenheim - Virtuous Girl
Avon Books 168, 1948
Cover Artist: Ray Johnson? © D. Trager-Phillips

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James M. Cain - Sinful Woman
Avon Books 174, 1948
Cover Artists: Raymond Johnson, © D. Troeger-Phillips

Ernst Troeger was a German-American illustrator who founded Phillips & Troeger advertising firm. He attended the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

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Maxwell Bodenheim - Replenishing Jessica
Avon Books 191, 1949
Cover Artist: Ray Johnson © A. Troeger-Phillips

"The intimate story of one woman and five men."

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Nelson Algren - The Neon Wilderness
Avon Books 222, 1950
Cover Artist: Ray Johnson

Contents:
1. "The Captain Has Bad Dreams"
2. "How the Devil Came Down Division Street"
3. "Is Your Name Joe?"
4. "Depend on Aunt Elly"
5. "Stickman's Laughter"
6. "A Lot You Got to Holler"
7. "Poor Man's Pennies"
8. "The Face on the Barroom Floor”
9. "The Brothers' House"
10. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"
11. "He Swung and He Missed"
12. "El Presidente de Méjico"
13. "Kingdom City to Cairo"
14. "The Children"
15. "Pero Vencermos"
16. "No Man's Laughter"
17. "Design for Departure"
18 ."So Help Me"

Excluded from the Avon edition:

19. "A Bottle of Milk for Mother”
20. "He Couldn't Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn"
21. "Million-Dollar Brainstorm"
22. "Katz"
23. "The Heroes"
24. "That's the Way It's Always Been"

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Alphonse Daudet - Sappho
Avon Books 294, 1951
Cover Artist: Ray Johnson

"What price chastity on the left bank of Paris."

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