1949 Hamish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first by three months – cover art by C.W. Bacon
1949 Houghton Mifflin hc, 1st edition – cover art by Boris Artzybasheff (owner’s copy)
1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by James Neil Boyle
1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Shoyer (owner’s copy)
1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas
1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue
SMB Noir 