Category: australian pulp

Guilty Bystander x 7 + 2

1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover

1947 Handi-Book digest

1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas

1950 Film Classics

1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper

1956 Phantom reissue

1958 Signet reissue

Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH

1963 Signet reissue

The Wayward Wahine

1960 Horwitz paperback original in Australia

1960 Signet paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

1962 Horwitz reissue

Robert McGinnis (American, 1926-2025), Not signed
The Wayward Wahine, Carter Brown, 1966 Signet reissue
Gouache on board, 19-1/4 x 15 inches (48.9 x 38.1 cm)

1971 Horwitz reissue

Dewey and Miller

1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English

3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani

1950 Signet reissue

1955 reissue

Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed

– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –

1957 Phantom edition from Australia

1963 Signet reissue

1993 Perennial reissue

The Double Shuffle x 5 +

1952 Hale hardcover in the UK

1953 Dutton hardcover, a Guilt Edged Selection

Oil on board, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Al Rossi

The present work is published as the cover of The Double Shuffle by James Hadley Chase (Signet, 1954)


1954 Corgi reissue

1963 Horwitz reissue from Australia

The Blonde x 6 +

1958 Horwitz paperback original from Australia

The Blonde, Carter Brown paperback cover, 1958 Signet
Gouache on board, 28 x 18 inches (71.1 x 45.7 cm) (image)
Signed faintly lower right: Barye

undated Dutch edition – cover art by Moriën

1967 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

1969 Signet reissue

later Signet reissue – cover art by Barye Phillips