The Wanton x 5

1959 Horowitz release in Australia

cover art by Barye Phillips – better image than previously posted

1959 Signet paperback original in the US

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

cover design by Grant Roberts

1966 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1968 New English Library/Four Square Books release in the UK

By the author of the story that became It’s a Wonderful Life

Philip Van Doren Stern (September 10, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American writer, editor, and Civil War historian whose story “The Greatest Gift“, published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).


1951 Farrar hardcover as Love Is the One with Wings

1951 Signet reissue – first paperback release

published in the UK in 1952 as It’s Always Too Late to Mend and in 1955 as Manhunt

1960 Berkley reissue

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)