1st Pocket edition, December 1965
first hardcovers were 1964 from Hamish Hamilton the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the US
From Black Mask Magazine: “Killer in the Rain”, “The Men Who Liked Dogs”, “The Curtain” and “Try the Girl”
From Dime Detection Magazine: “Mandarin’s Jade”, “Bay City Blues” and “The Lady in the Lake”
From Detective Story Magazine: “No Crime in the Mountains”
first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s “Noon Street Nemesis”, which would later be reissued as “Pick-Up on Noon Street” for The Simple Art of Murder
1950 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first edition
surreal cover illustration by Artzybasheff
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1944)
“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov 1935)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 1939)
“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar 1938)
“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
SMB Noir 
