To purchase, call us or e-mail us at quoting stock number 43204 – or simply click on the button Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a braceleted Heade blonde in lilac and an agony-or-ecstasy pose minor wear at head short split at foot a few slight marks, but a very good copy.
“Powerfully evokes the claustrophobic little café” (John Fraser).Ĭrown 8vo (19cm). Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, it is thought that the outline of the plot was supplied to Frances by Geoffrey Pardoe (Holland p.299). The most notorious and most scrutinised of the books in the 1954 obscenity trial, with Heade at his very best on the front cover, with a tenderness sometimes lacking. First edition : the variant listing six “Fourth Series” titles (and two “Specials”) on the lower wrapper. To purchase, call us or e-mail us at quoting stock number 43090 – or simply click on the button Just a single copy (British Library) located in any major library worldwide. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a braceleted Heade blonde in lilac and an agony-or-ecstasy pose slight tear and tiny scuff to spine price alteration sticker on upper wrapper a few slight marks text lightly tanned, but a very good copy. First edition : the variant with the coloured advertisement for the never published “Blonde Dupe” on the lower wrapper. In 1963 they change to an eye logo with the brand "Compact Book" and the words "New Style 64 Series".UNITED KINGDOM Tel: (+44)-(0)20-8672-2263ĬLICK ON REFRESH/RELOAD TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAGE Their logo was a guy in a trenchcoat with the word "Thriller". Then Roberts & Vinter took up the task from 1961. Many of these covers are abreviated versions of the original Head covers, and the titles usually drop the slang for "woman'.
reprinted most of the novels plus new ones with different less sexy cover paintings with yellow & red bars across the top. These early titles often start with a hardboiled slang for a woman, such as "broad", "frail", or "skirt".įrom 1955-1959 Alexander Moring Ltd.
Some Heade covers were reprinted in 2004. (Each Series is called a volume in this table.) Many of these covers depict bondage and nudity, and were censored in later editions. The books are unnumbered, but were listed by number on the backs of some issues. They published four "Series" of a dozen each. Francis) "Hardboiled" novels in paperback with gorgeous, sexy Reginald Heade covers. In 1948 Gaywood Press started issuing these Hank Janson ( Steve D.
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