Tag: avon paperback
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
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1954 Avon reissue
1950 Avon paperback original
1950 Avon paperback original. six stories that first appeared in Black Mask Magazine
“The Red Hots” (December 1930)
“Get a Load of This” (February 1931)
“Spare the Rod” (August 1931)
“Pearls are Tears” (September 1931)
“Death’s Not Enough” (October 1931)
“Save Your Tears” (June 1933)
The Four of Hearts x 2
cover art by Norman Saunders
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cover art by William Rose
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1958 Avon paperback original
cover art by Ron Lesser
Gouache on board, 12.25 x 9.5 in. (sight)
Signed lower right
paperback cover for Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay, Avon, 1966.
1952 Harper hardcover in the US
Winner of the first ever Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1954
cover art by Ray Johnson
Charlotte Jay, Beat Not The Bones, 1952 Avon reissue
Winner of the very first Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1954
Jay was the pen name of Geraldine Halls who was born in Adelaide, South Australia on December 17,1919. After writing just nine novels in her life and traveling to exotic locales with her husband, a UNESCO official, she died on October 27, 1996 in her hometown.
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