July 1957 Signet reissue, first printing
cover arty by Robert Maguire
Tag: woman with a gun
July 1941 issue
Hardest of the Hardboiled #2 x 7
1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy
1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”
cover art by Victor Olsen
1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series
1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell
1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin
February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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July 1932 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
May 1944 issue
February 1942 issue ~ cover art by Alex Redmond
December 1941 issue ~ cover art by Albert Fisher
February 1942 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
August 1953 issue
cover art by Robert Maguire
1955 Crown hardcover
November 1956 Signet reissue
cover art by Robert Maguire
4th with Kansas City private eye Johnny April
3rd print March 1964
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