1968 Pocket mass market, 1st print
cover art by Roger Kastel
better image than previously posted
Tag: pocket paperback
The Long Goodbye x 17
1953 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover, the true first edition of this novel
1954 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, first US edition – (owner’s copy)
cover illustration by Lorraine
final Marlowe novel, an American classic and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel
1954 Hammish Hamilton book club edition
August 1955 Pocket reissue, 2nd printing – (owner’s copy)
cover art by Tom Dunn
1964 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep
1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover design by James Tormey
1972 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1973 Ballantine movie tie-in reissue (owner’s copy)
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Richard Williams
1988 UK Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
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 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Colin Thomas
1988 Vintage/ Black Lizard reissue
The Lady in the Lake x 14
1946 Pocket reissue – cover art by Tom Dunn
1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Morgan Kane
1971 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)
1979 Penguin UK reissue – cover by James Tormey
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
2010 Penguin Classics 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
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
The Big Sleep x 27
1939 Knopf advanced reading copy
1939 Hammish Hamilton UK hardcover
1942 Avon digest, Murder Mystery Monthly No.7, first softcover release of this American classic/ cover art by William Frost
1943 Avon paperback – cover art by Paul Stahr
1945 Knopf hardcover reissue – inscribed to director John Houseman
1948 Pocket reissue – cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)
better image than previously posted
1950 Pocket reissue, 3rd print – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)
1962 Penguin UK reissue – cover art by John Sewell
better image than previously posted
1971 Penguin UK reissue – cover designed by James Tormey
1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)
1976 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Amsel
watercolor cover art by Richard Waldrep, 13.75″ x 9.50″
1976 Vintage reissue (owner’s copy)
1976 Vintage trace paperback reissue
1979 Pan Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Peter Williams
2009 Hammish Hamilton hardcover
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note ~ there are many, many more covers for this book, both in English and foreign languages… but I had to stop somewhere
The Beautiful Frame x 2
1953 Simon & Schuster hardcover, an Inner Sanctum Selection
this the later 1954 Pocket paperback
cover art by James Meese
better image than previously posted
1960 Pocket reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett
1932 Stokes hardcover
cover art on this later Pocket reissue by Harry Bennett
5th in the series
1962 Pocket paperback original – cover art by Al Brule
Mischief
First Edition of MISCHIEF (1950), by Charlotte Armstrong. Together with a typed letter from Armstrong to a collector, dated September 18th, 1957, the year she won the Edgar Award for ‘A Dram of Poison.’ 8.5 X 11, numbering 321 words and showing some hand corrections throughout. A charming and humorous letter, detailing everything from winning the Edgar Award, her reading habits, and Sherlock Holmes (“I read them when I was ten or eleven and it warped my life”). Signed by Armstrong at the bottom, and a rare signature in our experience. To date, this is the only signed material by Armstrong we have seen or handled. Basis for the 1952 film noir ‘Don’t Bother To Knock’ directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft in her film debut, and Marylin Monroe in her first leading dramatic role. An attractive copy of a scarce title, and in the author’s own words, “probably the best book I’ve written.”
Pocket Books 805 reissue, 1951, cover by Robert Hilbert
SMB Noir 
