Category: crime fiction

The Long Wait x 13 + 1

1951 Dutton first edition hardcover

Spillane’s 5th book, first without Hammer

1953 Arthur Barker hardcover from the UK

May 1952 Signet paperback, first printing – cover art by Lu Kimmel

better image than previously posted

1952 Signet paperback, later printing – cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1954 movie poster

1955 Signet reissue

1958 Dragon reissue in the UK

1960 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avati

British 1960 Corgi reissue – cover art by John A. Richards

1963 Corgi reissue from the UK

1964 Signet, 31st print

1970 Corgi reissue from the UK

undated Signet reissue

1979 Signet reissue

I’ll Bury My Dead x 8

UK 1953 Hale hardcover

1954 Dutton hardcover

Canadian undated (1954?) Harlequin reissue

US 1954 Harlequin reissue

1955 Signet reissue

cover art by George Erickson

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undated, later, Signet reissue

UK 1968 Panther reissue

UK 1979 Corgi reissue

1961 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1961 Gold Medal paperback original

pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt

cover art by Robert McGinnis

reprinted in 1975 by Pinnacle as Washington Payoff as by Hunt

reprinted in 2009 by Hard Case Crime under the original title as by Hunt

cover art by Glen Orbik