Category: paperback

cover art by Harry Barton

The Fast Buck, paperback cover, 1952
tempera on board, 19 x 11.25 in. (sight), Signed twice lower left

This illustration was published as the cover for The Fast Buck by Ross Laurence, Ace D-29, 1952, as well as the basis for the Australian edition of the novel with the same title and author, Phantom Books No. 660.

cover art by Harry Barton


Gouache on board, 18.5 x 12.5 in.
Signed lower center
This illustration appeared on the cover of Leslie Edgley’s novel, Tracked Down, Ace Double #D-45, 1954.

pseudonym of Robert Bloomfield, joint pen name with Mary Edgley

1947 Doubleday hardcover as The Angry Heart

1st Pocket edition, December 1965

1st Pocket edition, December 1965

first hardcovers were 1964 from Hamish Hamilton the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the US

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