1951 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Barye Phillips

1951 Gold Medal paperback original

His 2nd novel

cover art by Barye Phillips

1971 UK edition from Priory

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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 Virgin Kills x 3

WHITFIELD, Raoul (1897?-1945). The Virgin Kills. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.

8o. Original canary yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket by J.V.W. Oliver (very minor chipping to ends of spine panel; short tear to lower edge of back panel).

FIRST EDITION, in the scarce dust jacket. “Death went up the river with the Virgin, Eric Vennell’s yacht, when that millionaire gambler sailed for the Regatta at Poughkeepsie with his oddly assorted guests” (dust jacket). Illustration on page 56.

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1986 Quill paperback reissue of his 1932 hardcover

Apparently, the novel was not serialized in any magazine before publication

March 14, 2013

1988 No Exit Press from the UK

cover photo by Weegee