
Category: film noir
1949 Avon paperback – cover art by Ann Cantor)

1938 McBride hardcover
cover art by Ann Cantor
better image than previously posted
basis for the 1947 film noir

1947 Out of the Past

Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past, 1947
Rear Window, 1954
1950 United Artist
1934 MGM Production


Original advertising herald for W.S. Van Dyke’s 1934 film THE THIN MAN, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name. The first of many Thin Man movies, this one starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Maureen O’Sullivan. This one’s a pristine example.
1954, Down Three Dark Streets

Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman in a publicity still for Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
1958 Perma paperback original ~ cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
Scarlet Street

A stunning, Fine example of the French film pressbook for Fritz Lang’s ‘Scarlet Street’ (1945), based on Georges de la Fouchardiere’s 1930 novel ‘La Chienne’ (The Bitch), published in English the same year as ‘Poor Sap.’





