
1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren


1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren


1940 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition


1943 Hamish Hamilton UK 1st ed.

1956 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – cover art by James Meese (owner’s copy)

1945 Pocket reissue – cover by E. McKnight Kauffer

The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946). Very Fine- on Linen. Three Sheet (41″ X 78.5″).
adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window – noted in tiny print on the poster



1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten


1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition


1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Penguin/Random House reissue


1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition




2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue


Gilda (Columbia, 1946). Fine+ on Linen. Six Sheet (78.5″ X 80.25″).

Jean Harlow in a production still from The Best of the City (Charles Brabin, 1932)

Poster art for the film “A Man Called Dagger” (a low budget film made to cash in on the James Bond craze in the 60s) painted by Frank Frazetta.
It was never used for the film and only recently came to light and was sold at auction.
Apparently it was used as collateral for a bar tab which was never paid.

Kiss Me Deadly (United Artists, 1955). Fine/Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27″ X 41.25″).
the woman who dies at the start of the story was played by Cloris Leachman, in her first movie appearance