knopf hardcover – Page 2

Farewell, My Lovely x 21

1943 Pocket reissue – cover art by H. L. Hoffman

1964 Pocket reissue, 14th printing – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)

cover art by James Neil Boyle

1951 Pocket reissue, 10th print – cover art by Paul Kresse (owner’s copy)

1966 Penguin reissue – cover design by Bob Brooks

1973 Penguin reissue – cover design by James Tormey

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

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

1976 Penguin movie tie-in

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First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Rare hard-boiled mystery by this author who died young in 1945.

first novel with private eye Cellini Smith

there had been seven Smith short stories published in Black Mask Magazine by the time of the author’s death.

1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English

one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers

better image than previously posted

cover art by Clark Hulings

cover art by Sam Peffer

better image than previously posted

[updated 9/13/25]