Unread condition, with oxidized pages typical to cheap pulp of the era that has not been stored well--likely a back room clean out. Tight,  flat, square, sharp book. Harold W McCauley cover art.

Holliday is a pseudonym used by Lawrence Block, Victor J. Banis, Sam Dodson, Hal Dresner, & Donald Westlake and others including Plotnik, who studied under Philip Roth, and went on to become a writer's writer and author/editor of a number of books about good writing, among other things.