Private Detective Stories, June 1941
better image than previously posted
[updated 5/6/24]
Category: original art
December 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Allen Anderson
cover art by Mitchell Hooks
“The Marvelous Boy.” Cover art for the book of the same name by Peter Corris, published by Fawcett in 1982. Acrylic on board. 533×305 mm; 21×12 inches, on 22 3/4×15-inch board. Signed “Hooks” in lower right image.
3rd (of 42) in the long-running private eye series [owner’s copy]
cover art by Harry Barton
gouache on board, 20 x 15 in. (image)
Signed lower right
The Quaking Widow by Robert Colby, Ace Double paperback, 1956.
cover art by Harry Barton
gouache on board, 21 x 13 in. (image)
Signed lower right
Hell Cat by Dorine Clark, Beacon, 1959
[image updated 1/5/25]
cover art by Harry Barton
June 1945 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
cover art by Harry Barton
Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper laid on board, 20 x 13 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
This illustration was published as the cover for Manhandled by Whitman Chambers, Monarch #434, 1964.
cover art by Bill Fleming
gouache composite illustration on board, 11″ by 17″
1951 Dell 1st edition thus
William Irish was one of the pen names used by Cornell Woolrich
the novelette was originally published as by Woolrich in the May 3, 1941
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