Tag: bantam paperback

The Underground Man x 11

1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel (owner’s copy)

London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First UK Edition. The 16th novel in the Lew Archer series.

1973 Fontana UK reissue

1974 Bantam reissue

1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1989 Fontana UK reissue

1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley

1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

Australian 2012 Penguin reissue

Australian 2024 Penguin reissue

The New Yorker, March 3, 2025

[post updated 8/20/26]

1949 Bantam reissue – cover art by William Wirtz

1938 Heinemann hardcover in the UK, published in the US that same year by Viking. this the later Bantam softcover

murder of a stool pigeon by a penny-ante race track gang lead by a malicious teenage boy.

better image than previously posted

The Moving Target x 13

THE FIRST LEW ARCHER

1949 Knopf hardcover – cover illustration by Bill English

first in the long-running and deservedly respected Lew Archer series by Kenneth Millar, aka Ross Macdonald. After using his father’s name as the pen name for this novel, he was forced by John D. MacDonald to alter it for future novels, and Ross Macdonald was born.

March 1950 Pocket paperback, first printing

cover painting by Harvey Kidder

British 1951 Cassell hardcover

1954 Pan reissue – cover by Sax

better image than previously posted

1959 Pocket reissue, third printing – cover art by Jerry Allison (owner’s copy)

1966 Fontana movie tie-in edition

British 1971 Fontana reissue

1974 Bantam reissue

1977 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks

British 1978 Fontana reissue

1984 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh

1998 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1990 Warner edition – cover art by Gary Kelley (owner’s copy)

[updated 9/6/25, 8/27/26]