cover art by Dick Shelton
Category: digest
September 1950 issue
January 1960 issue ~ cover art by Carl Pfeuffer
Rough on Rats x 3
1942 Morrow hardcover as Rough on Rats
1942 Larkin, Roosevelt and Larkin digest # 1
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cover art by Rudy Nappi
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Mafia x 4
1949 Handi-Book digest
September 1957 issue ~ cover art by Dick Shelton
September 1961 issue ~ cover art by Carl Pfeufer
September 1956 issue
The Big Sleep x 27
1939 Knopf advanced reading copy
1939 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover
1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic/ cover art by William Frost
1943 Avon paperback – cover art by Paul Stahr
1945 Knopf hardcover reissue – inscribed to director John Houseman
1948 Pocket reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
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1950 Pocket reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)
1962 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by John Sewell
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1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover designed by James Tormey
1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Amsel
watercolor cover art by Richard Waldrep, 13.75″ x 9.50″
1976 Vintage reissue (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage trace paperback reissue
1979 Pan Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
2009 Hammish Hamilton hardcover
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note ~ there are many, many more covers for this book, both in English and foreign languages… but I had to stop somewhere
