
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

cover art by Harry Barton
better image than previously posted


New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

cover art by Harry Barton
better image than previously posted


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

1956, The Killing – Kubrick’s second movie
adapted from Lionel White’s Clean Break, Dutton hardcover, 1955

While one source listed this as originally published in 1952 as Seven Hungry Men, but our reliable reference volumes do not list Seven Hungry Men as a title he wrote and Run, Killer, Run as the only title for this book. It’s a mystery…

1958 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Darcy, aka Ernest Chiriacka
better image than previously posted

May 1953 Gold Medal paperback original, first printing
1st novel from the noir master
cover art by John Floherty Jr
better image than previously posted

Oil on board, 27 x 16.5 in.
Signed lower left

This illustration appeared on the cover of Lionel White’s crime noir novel, To Find a Killer, Signet Books #1241, 1955


“The Killing” (United Artists, 1956). Very Fine. Title Lobby Card (11″ X 14″) Film Noir.
Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Jay Adler, Kola Kwariani, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, James Griffith, William ‘Billy’ Benedict, Charles Cane, Robert Williams, and Art Gilmore. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Adaptation of the heist novel Clean Break by Lionel White
Kubrick’s first movie as director

Sterling Hayden in disguise in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).