Tag: black lizard paperback

The Long Goodbye x 17

1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel

1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)

cover illustration by Lorraine

final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition

August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)

cover art by Tom Dunn

1963 Penguin UK reissue

1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

Penguin UK 1966 reissue

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams

1985 Ballantine reissue

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1988 Penguin reissue

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2013 Canadian HarperCollins reissue

The High Window x 23

1940 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition

1943 Hamish Hamilton UK 1st ed.

1956 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – cover art by James Meese (owner’s copy)

1945 Pocket reissue – cover by E. McKnight Kauffer

The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946). Very Fine- on Linen. Three Sheet (41″ X 78.5″).

adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The High Window – noted in tiny print on the poster

1956 Penguin UK reissue

1959 Penguin reissue

1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 Pocket reissue

1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition

1969 Pocket reissue

1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Penguin/Random House reissue

1989 Penguin UK reissue

1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2013 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

The Big Sleep x 27

1939 Knopf advanced reading copy

1939 Knopf hardcover

1939 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover

1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic/ cover art by William Frost

1943 Avon paperback – cover art by Paul Stahr

1945 Knopf hardcover reissue – inscribed to director John Houseman

1946 World Press movie tie-in

1948 Pocket reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

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1950 Pocket reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)

1952 Penguin UK reissue

1962 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by John Sewell

better image than previously posted

1966 Penguin reissue

1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover designed by James Tormey

1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Amsel

watercolor cover art by Richard Waldrep, 13.75″ x 9.50″

1976 Vintage reissue (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage trace paperback reissue

1979 Pan Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 Vintage reissue

1988 Knopf reissue

2000 Penguin UK reissue

2005 Penguin UK reissue

2009 Hammish Hamilton hardcover

2011 Penguin UK reissue

2014 Penguin UK reissue

2022 Vintage reissue

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note ~ there are many, many more covers for this book, both in English and foreign languages… but I had to stop somewhere

The Golden Gizmo x 4

1954 Lion paperback original

a truly dreadful pulp illustration by Robert J. Lee

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1989 Mysterious Press reissue

1998 Black Lizard/Vintage Crime reissue

2012 Hachette audio cover

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

2012 Mulholland 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.

1973 Harper 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

2024 UK Penguin reissue

The New Yorker, March 3, 2025

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

1952 Lion paperback original

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1958 Pyramid reissue

cover art by Clark Hulings

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1987 Black Lizard reissue

cover art by Jim Kirwan

1992 Black Lizard reissue

cover photo by Diana Klein

A Hell of a Woman x 6

1954 Lion paperback original

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

1990 Black Lizard reissue

2014 Mulholand reissue