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June 1937 issue

1934 Vanguard hardcover

February 1948 Triangle hardcover reissue

basis for the 1948 Robert Siodmak film noir starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Dan Duryea

This Gun for Hire (Paramount, 1942). Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27″ X 41″).

[cover updated 2/23/26]

cover art by David Stone

better image than previously posted

cover art by Ray Dean – aka Stockton Mulford

Bantam paperback original, August 1990, first printing

his first Hap & Leonard crime novel