1956 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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cover art by Kirwin
Kill the Boss Good-by x 2
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Texas by the Tail X 4
1965 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK
1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue
The Underground Man x 10
1971 Knopf hardcover, first edition – cover design by Hal Seigel
London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First UK Edition. The 16th novel in the Lew Archer series.
1979 Bantam reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks
1992 Warner reissue – cover art by Gary Kelley
1996 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
Clean Break into The Killing
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.
Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.
1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire
1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin
1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick
Cropper’s Cabin x 4
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cover art by Clark Hulings
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cover art by Jim Kirwan
cover photo by Diana Klein
A Hell of a Woman x 6
1`956 Lion reissue – cover art by Morgan Kane
1962 Pyramid reissue, cover art by Mort Engel
1984 Black Lizard reissue – over by Nancy MacGregor
Nothing More Than Murder x 6
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1949 Hillman reissue – first paperback edition
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1991 Black Lizard paperback reissue
cover art by Kirwan
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Seven Slayers x 5
1946 Chartered digest paperback original
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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine
“Black” (May 1932)
“Red 71” (December 1932)
“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)
“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)
“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine
“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)
“Pineapple” (March 1936)
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue
cover art by Joe Servello
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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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
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