This Gun for Hire (Paramount, 1942). Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27″ X 41″).
This Gun for Hire (Paramount, 1942).
Category: finest kind
1960 Dell reissue ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
artwork by Robert Maguire
Oil on board, 12.375 x 10 in. (sight)
Not signed
A variation of this illustration was published as the paperback cover for The Joy Zone by Anthony Dare, All Star Books AS 85 variant, 1966:
~ her hair is different
~ she’s now looking out at the reader
~ her ‘garment’ is different
~ pillows have different brushwork
~ shadow and background are different
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[updated 6/26/25]
August 1933 issue
July 1931 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
1963 Belmont paperback ~ cover art by Robert Maguire
oil on board, 20 x 11 inches (50.8 x 27.9 cm)
1963 Belmont paperback original
cover art by Robert Maguire
better image than previously posted
[updated 11/19/24]
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