Cameo Book No 330 1953 1st Ed Reefer Girl Jane Manning Pseudonym of Ruth Manoff

Reefer Girl is a 1953 pulp paperback published as No. 330 in the Cameo Books digest line (an imprint of Detective House, Inc.), a small New York publisher of digest-sized paperback originals in the 1950s.  Good Condition because of back cover (tape pull ?? ) on bottom (see picture) (also note darkened upper spine area)

Author: Credited to "Jane Manning," a pseudonym for Ruth Manoff

Cover art: By pulp illustrator Rudy Nappi, depicting an intense-looking young femme fatale reclining with a cigarette

Length/format: 130 pages, bound in publisher's pictorial wraps

Genre: It belongs to the juvenile-delinquent/anti-drug exploitation paperback genre popular in the early '50s — one of the rarest of the juvenile delinquent/anti-drug propaganda books, which over the years has achieved cult-classic status, similar to the film Reefer Madness

sought-after collector's item among vintage pulp/paperback and "sleaze digest" collectors — described by one rare book dealer as "perhaps the scarcest of the juvenile delinquent drug paperback originals". Nappi's original cover painting itself has also survived and been sold as fine art — a dramatic and lurid oil painting on illustration board, considered a tremendously important iconic pop culture artifact