Category: movie poster

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

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

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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

The Case of the Lucky Legs x 19 + 1

`1934 Morrow hardcover, Gardner’s third Perry Mason mystery novel

1935 First National picture – Warren William as Perry Mason

1941 Pocket reissue – cover art by Pierre Martinot

1945 World Publishing/Tower edition

Feature Books #49 Perry Mason (David McKay, 1946) Condition: VG+. Perry Mason in “The Case of the Lucky Legs.” Vernon Greene art

1947 Pocket reissue

1951 Pocket reissue

1952 Morrow Collector’s Edition hardcover reissue – cover by Charles Lofgren

1953 Guild reissue from the UK

1956 Pocket reissue

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1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by John Fernie

1960 Great Pan reissue from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer

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1962 Brazilian reissue

1963 Consul reissue from the UK

1960s Consul reissue

1967 Pocket reissue

1967 Sphere reissue from the UK – cover illustration by Bill Botten

1973 Pocket reissue

1990 Ballantine reissue

2015 Ankerwycke reissue

The Cypher aka Arabesque

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

1966 Italian poster

The High Window x 23

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

1956 Penguin UK reissue

1959 Penguin reissue

1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 Pocket reissue

1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition

1969 Pocket reissue

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

1989 Penguin UK reissue

1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2013 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue