1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes
1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton
1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin
cover art by Harry Bennett
later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad
Doubleday, Doran and Co. for The Crime Club, 1941.First Edition stated. Uncommon gambling and card cheating murder mystery. Near Fine in Very Good attractive dustjacket.
September 1948 issue ~ debut of the story
cover art by Earle Bergey
1949 Dutton hardcover – first book appearance
1950 Bantam reissue – cover art by Herman Bischoff
better image than previously posted
1951 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
1954 Bantam reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
better image than previously posted
1954 Boardman paperback reissue – cover art by Pagram
1978 Bantam reissue – cover art by Paul Lehr
1978 Pennyfarthing Press hardcover, limited edition reissue
cover art by Grant Canfield
1936 Double Day hardcover
A Crime Club selection
3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936
1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84
cover art by ED Emshwiller
better image than previously posted
1964 McFadden paperback reissue
better image than previously posted
1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place
Brackett, Leigh. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. This book became the basis for the television series “Markham“. Some tanning to page edges, a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing.
1961 Belmont paperback original
novelization from the TV series starring Ray Milland
novelization by Lawrence Block was released after the TV show had been cancelled
First American Edition of THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1936), preceding the British edition by one month).
A masterpiece of genre fiction, basis for the 1942 film noir starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Laird Cregar. The film was Ladd’s first appearance on the big screen, and the only time he ever played a villain. He became famous as a result of the film’s success, and would go on to be cast along-side Veronica Lake in ‘The Glass Key’ and ‘The Blue Dahlia.’ Copies in dustjacket are quite scarce, this being the only jacketed copy of the American edition we’ve seen offered in the trade since 2009.
2013 Doubleday hardcover
cover design bt Michael J. Windsor
his 10th Easy Rawlins novel, this one set in 1967
SMB Noir 