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1958 Avon reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Avon paperback original

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death, Asimov’s preferred title

1968 Walker hardcover reissue

1970 Sphere edition from the UK

House of Fury/Reform School Girls x 4

1941 Doubleday hardcover

1948 Diversey digest in Canada

1950 Avon reissue

1959 Berkley reissue

cover art by Robert Maguire

better image than previously posted

1942 Avon reissue – cover art by Gil Tompkins

published in 1936 in hardcover by Morrow

1942 Avon Books, #18

cover art by Gil Tompkins

2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

pseudonym of Daniel Mainwaring who, as Homes, wrote Build My Gallows High (1946), adapted into the classic film noir Out of the Past (1947). 2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

1930 Longman, Green hardcover – cover art by Edna Reindel

Burnett, W[illiam] R[iley]. IRON MAN. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh The Dial Press … Toronto: Longman, Green & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-312, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on front panel, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. Burnett’s second novel, preceded by his well-received gangster novel, LITTLE CAESAR (1929). The story of a mechanic’s helper who becomes a prize fighter and finally middleweight champion. Hanna 527. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (with art deco illustration by Edna Reindel) with light wear at upper spine end and corner tips and tiny, narrow chip at lower spine end.

1949 Avon reissue

better image than previously posted

a non-mystery, it was his second novel, published the year after Little Caesar

[post updated with paperback 9/27/25]