cover art by Emmett Watson
better image than previously posted
Tag: woman with a gun
Farewell, My Lovely x 21
1940 Hammish Hamilton UK first edition
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)
1950 Penguin UK reissue, 3rd print
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 Ballantine movie tie-in
1976 Penguin movie tie-in
1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
1994 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
2009 Penguin Classics UK reissue
[updated 3/3/26, 3/8/26]
October 1950 issue
1952 New Fiction Press
November 1936 issue ~ cover art by William E. Luberoff
December 1943 Canadian issue
April 1951 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
New Zealand edition
1960 Pocket paperback original
cover art by Walter Popp
pen name of Milton K. Ozaki
1955 Graphic Mystery paperback original
cover art by Walter Popp
better image than previously posted
1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia
a number of changes to the cover:
– plant to phone in bottom left corner
— her hair is smoother
–yellow dress to red
–bracelet changed
–jewelry box different color
–background changed to window
–background table different, books different, bookend gone
–front table different
— mantle and logs different
–colors brighter and smoother
SMB Noir 