Tag: hamish hamilton hardcover

Playback x 24

1958 Hamish Hamilton, true 1st edition

1958 Houghton Mifflin hardcover

1959 Danish edition

1959 Brazilian edition in Portuguese

1960 Cardinal reissue – cover art by William Rose

better image than previously posted

1961 British edition

1961 Finnish edition

1961 Australian edition from Horwitz – cover art by Theo Batten

1965 British edition – cover design by Alan Spain

1968 Pyramid reissue – cover art by Joseph Lombardero

1968 German edition

1975 Penguin edition – cover design by James Tormey

1977 Ballantine reissue, 1st print (owner’s copy) – cover art by Richard Waldrep

later 1977 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep

1979 French edition

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams

1986 French edition

late 8os UK Penguin reissue

1988 French translation

1988 Vintage reissue

1990 Finnish edition

1998 Catalan edition

1999 French edition

1999 Scandinavian edition (unsure of country)

2002 Spanish edition

2004 French graphic novel edition

2011 Penguin UK reissue

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The Little Sister x 15

1949 Hamish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first by three months – cover art by C.W. Bacon

1949 Houghton Mifflin hc, 1st edition – cover art by Boris Artzybasheff (owner’s copy)

1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by James Neil Boyle

1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Shoyer (owner’s copy)

1957 Penguin reissue

1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

1966 Penguin UK reissue

1966 Penguin movie tie-in

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

1976 Ballantine reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1979 Penguin reissue

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas

1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue

1989 Penguin UK reissue

2011 Penguin UK 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

Killer in the Rain x 6

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories.

“Killer in the Rain” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1935)

“The Man Who Liked Dogs” (Black Mask Magazine, Mar. 1936)

“The Curtain” (Black Mask Magazine, Sept. 1936)

“Try the Girl” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1937)

“Mandarin’s Jade” (Dime Detective Magazine, Nov. 1937)

“Bay City Blues” (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)

“The Lady in the Lake” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1939)

“No Crime in the Mountains”(Detective Story Magazine, Sept. 1941)

introduction by Philip Durham

1st Pocket edition, December 1965

June 1973 Bantam reissue

cover art by Tom Adams

2011 Penguin UK reissue

July 1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print

cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie

August 25, 2013

1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Robert Golden

[post reworked 7/4/25, 3/1/26]