Category: paperback

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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