bantam paperback – Page 5

August 1990 Bantam paperback

Bantam paperback original, August 1990, first printing

his first Hap & Leonard crime novel

January 1960 Bantam reissue, first printing, first paperback edition

from the July 1957 Random House hardcover

also published as The Soft Talkers

1948 Macmillan hardcover

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

2nd of 2 with Lt. Marty Walsh

February 1954 Bantam 1st printing of this 1937 chiller

cover art by Sanford Kossin

better image than previously posted

Cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

Gouache on board, 22 x 16-1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right

The work is published in The Bramble Bush by David Duncan (Macmillan, 1948).

cover art by James Meese

cover art by James Meese

Cover illustration for “Million Dollar Murder” by Thomas Black (Bantam Mystery, 1956), reprint of “Four Dead Mice” (Rinehart & Company, 1954), with Bantam’s inventory label on verso. Pen, ink, and gouache on board. 635×337 mm; 25×13 1/4 inches. Signed “M. Hooks” in right image.

1947 Random House hardcover

1949 Bantam reissue

cover art by Robert Skemp

basis for the 1956 film noir and Humphrey Bogart’s last movie

better image than previously posted

1975 Bantam paperback original