
1953 Collins hardcover in the UK, Viking in the US

pseudonym of Harry Wilcox
1955 Perma paperback
cover art by James Meese

1953 Collins hardcover in the UK, Viking in the US

pseudonym of Harry Wilcox
1955 Perma paperback
cover art by James Meese

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



1961 Horwitz reissue from Australia – cover art by Theo Batten


1967 Hamish Hamilton reissue, Fingerprint Edition


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


1992 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1993 Thorndike large print edition




2011 Penguin Classics UK reissue


James Alfred Meese (American, 1917-1971)
cover of The Beautiful and Dead by Ross MacRoss (Gold Medal, 1954).
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Meese


James Alfred Meese (American, 1917-1971)
cover of The Young and Violent by Marijane Meaker under the pseudonym Vin Packer (Gold Medal, 1956)
Oil on Masonite, 34-3/4 x 24 inches (88.3 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right: Meese


1953 Simon & Schuster hardcover, an Inner Sanctum Selection

this the later 1954 Pocket paperback
cover art by James Meese
better image than previously posted


1956 Crest edition – cover art by James Meese
better image than previously posted


1958 Crest – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

1961 Gold Medal reissue – cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

undated Fawcett Gold Medal reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by Rudy Nappi

1953 Australian edition from Phantom

1956 Crest reissue – cover art by James Meese

cover art by Charles Binger?
his 8th book
better image than previously posted

1972 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Larry Kresek

cover art by James Meese
1954 Rinehart hardcover
1955 Perma Books reissue
3rd Ed Noon

1947 Knopf hardcover, this the later 1952 Dell reissue
cover art by James Meese
9th with newspaper photographer Kent Murdock
better image than previously posted