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The evolution of Man
Pinches Bottom from hardback comic novel (1962) to Corgi crime
thriller (1964) to Savoy's 1980 edition. The Savoy cover by Harry Douthwaite
reflects most accurately the book's tone and its subject matter; the
tale of a children's comic artist who is mistaken for a child killer.
The protagonist also works for a thinly-disguised Amalgamated Press,
whose personnel and publishing ethos are gently satirised.
(Parts of Man Pinches
Bottom also appeared in the Sexton Blake Library title Large Type
Killer published in August 1960 >>
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Penguin's editions of the Albert Argyle trilogy.
Live Now, Pay Later is no. 1958 (1963), Something for
Nothing no.2391 (1966 − 3 years after
the hardback) and The Urban District Lover no.2651(1969
− 5 years after the hardback !) Covers by
Martin Bassett, Christopher Radley and Alan Aldridge |
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Just what market
did Sphere think they were selling these books into in 1972? Evidently
a uniform edition (no swastika-related pun intended). Thanks to
the two people who sent scans of One Last Mad Embrace. I used Roger
Stanger's image. |
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"Genevieve Goes To Spain" seems to be the intended feel of this
1958 cover. (The car's name is actually Lucifer.) |
Pinetop Jones
rides again! A rare glimpse of Story's Western oeuvre, written under
the nom de plume Bret Harding. This appears to be the 10th and last in the
saga >> . |
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Dennis McLoughlin, a book illustrator of the 1940s
and 50s renowned among collectors, had a long association with Boardman
Books. He provides the cover illos to both the 1949 first hardback
edition of Harry << See also >>
... and this 1955 paperback edition
>> which lacks only the unfunny seaside postcard gag line...
something involving the word stiff...? Still, it's the only edition with
the sequel, The Trouble With Trudy. |
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