A man with a gun is being seduced by a brunette in a purple dress. There is also an image of man in a suit and hat pointing a gun.
At head of title on front cover: Ex-cop Marty Bond took on the crime syndicate singlehanded - and became the target in a deadly game. At foot of cover: "A solid and original story, a brilliantly intricate crime and an abundance of wry humor."-Washington News
Purple box with black and grey image of the head of the hat-wearing gunman and the heads and torsos of the embracing man and woman.
White background with title, author and publisher's logo and number on spine in blue and black.
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Two women appear to be in shock and despair as a mortician shows them the identity of a sheet-covered dead body.
On front cover: A tough mystery about a kidnapping that led to four murders!
Black, blue and grey with text in white and black.
Grey background with title, author, publisher's number in black
Spawned by Earth, they were returning - to enslave it!
A scantily clad brunette leans against a dilapidated wall in a posture of listening and watching as she reaches out one hand to lift the blinds of a window and peer cautiously behind. Her costume of vest and sarong appears torn and reveals much of her torso, belly, hip, and breasts.
At head of title on front cover: Here's that Chester Drum again … beating his way through belly dancers and bloodshed.
On back cover: About The Second Longest Night, Chester Drum's first caper: "Effectively and restrainedly told…" The New York Times, "One of the best private-detective stories we've read in a long while..." Gibson City (Ill.) Courier.
The front cover image is reproduced in grayscale, cropped to display only the woman. The back cover itself is yellow with black and red text.
Gold Medal tri-color ribbon graphic on front and spine.
The Phoenix Group had given mankind the stars - but what did they want in return?
A deathly trap waits for the colonists on Mars
Front cover: Black (shadows, background), Magenta (top banner, woman's sweater, car, original title text), Tan (foreground, coat)
A blonde and barefoot woman stands in a lighted doorway, extending one hand toward a man in fedora and trench coat. The woman's red sweater is open, revealing her bra. The man is reaching into his breast pocket, clasping a billfold. In the alley behind the couple, the figures of three men lean, one against a post and two against a car, apparently waiting for the man.
At head of title on front cover: ".. a terrorific tale of kidnapping, murder, dope-peddling and politics .. tremendous .." Omaha World-Herald.
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author and publisher name and series number in black
Eton inside circle on front cover, back cover, and spine
Van Vogt, A. E. (Alfred Elton) 1912-2000
A dark-haired man reclines, hands behind head, smoking a cigarette. A blonde woman embraces him, pressing her face against his chest. Beside the couple are a bottle, glass, cigarettes, and a pink matchbook.
At head of title on cover: A mystery that's faster than sound.
Yellow background with white text box and black text. No graphics.
Gold Medal tri-color ribbon graphic on front, back and spine.
He raced through time to save a girl not yet born.
There's only room in this solar system for one Benito Funcitti…
Suddenly he became the most valuable human in space
A couple argues. The woman--a blonde in evening gown and pearls--sits on the edge of a bed, warily listening. The man--dark-haired, in white shirt and red tie--stands behind her, angrily gesticulating with one hand, other fist clenched.
In banner at head of front cover: Two complete novels.
On front cover: She taught him the steps of a danse macabre.
On front cover: Complete and unabridged.
Yellow background with yellow and black banners enclosing titles/authors of both novels.
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The
A science fiction novelet by Alfred Bester
The Man Who Cried ^Sheep!^ by J.T. McIntosh
Featuring…Roger Zelazny, David Drake, Robert Silverberg and many others!
View of a woman with long dark hair and red lipstick, wearing a strapless top and black lace scarf.
At box on front cover: Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
white background with blue circular graphic and line drawing of bust of Shakespeare.
Yellow background with black and red text.
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977.
View of a blonde woman with red lipstick, wearing a plunging strapless white top. Behind her are the framed photograph of a man in a tuxedo and a vase of white flowers.
At head of title on front cover: Author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
In banner at foot of front cover: Complete and unabridged.
Black and white photograph of three figures: a man and woman kissing and a woman standing by with hands on hips, watching them angrily.
Blue background with white and black text.
A red-headed woman scantily clad in tight black tank top and trousers leans seductively out the passenger door of a green convertible automobile. A man is slumped back against the seat in the driver's side.
At head of title on front cover: The newest Philip Marlowe murder-mystery by Raymond Chandler.
On front cover: She had six husbands, money--and one lover too many.
Kangaroo reading a book on front and back covers.
Black background with silver banner on right
Close-up of the face of a bald man with an ice pick in his neck. A hand reaches down to remove his toupee, within which a red ticket is visible.
On front cover: The corpse's wig held a deadly secret.
Inside graphic on back cover: Philip Marlowe, Investigations.
Black background with yellow and white text.
Kangaroo reading a book on front and back covers
Yellow background with white text box, simple business card graphic.
Charley Stoner has reached as far into the galaxy as any human dares. Now he must go farther
Only ten survived the space liner bombing…and one was an intergalactic terrorist!
The invaders were human, the aliens were only women, or were they?
A police man and investigators question and physically threaten a man.
At foot of front cover: A rough, hard-hitting mystery of a hotheaded cop, and cold-blooded killer!
Black, grey, white, red, and yellow boxes with white and black text.
Grey with title, author, publisher and publisher's number in black.
He'd won a place in the emperor's guard but could he hunt down the traitor who'd betrayed his knights to an alien foe?
Knight of Delusions: plus two bonus stories: Thunderhead, The Last Command
Come, come, Florin. Face Reality -- if you can find it!
A woman in a bathrobe is shooting a man in a suit with a handgun.
On front cover: The new Mike Hammer thriller.
Green, white and black background with black text and a black and white photograph of the author.
Green spine with author, title, publisher's number in black.
Publisher's name and series inside circle.
A man appears to be trying to forcibly seduce a vivacious blonde.
At head of title on front cover: A sizzling murder mystery exposing the international dope racket.
Image in yellow and black of a man and woman romantically involved. Text boxes in blue and yellow.
White with title, author, publisher, and publisher's number in red and black.
The god-king, the man-wolf, and the I-machine
This planet made its own rules - and crowned another's pawn
A man in dark suit and bowler hat sits, eyebrow cocked, holding a briefcase on his lap with a gun in one hand.
At head of title on front cover: Behind a helpless man and girl his gun terrorized the town.
On front cover: Author of 13 French Street
At foot of front cover: An original Gold Medal novel, not a reprint.
Red, white, blue ribbon with a gold medal medallion on front, spine, and back.
Yellow background with white text box. Author photograph in black and white.
A woman in pain is portrayed above the dead body of another woman. A man in a suit looks on from the distance.
At head of title on front cover: An evil woman spins a web of corruption.
Front cover illustration wraps around to back side of cover. White background with a blue spider web with text in black.
Spine background in a continuation of the front and rear cover illustration
Title, author, and publisher's number and logo in white.
Red lion seated in a black and white box.
An alien disaster promised the stars to a desperate world.
Was their leader a mistress of science or a witch of mutants?
Was the man who claimed to be Jesus Christ a spirit, a Martian, or a creature born in a star?
Standing beside a bed, a man embraces and kisses a red-headed woman who poses in bikini and filmy green robe. At the door to the room stands a blonde woman in black evening dress and white fur coat, who looks at the couple in surprise.
At head of title on cover: A hard-boiled story of love and murder in Reno … by the author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice!"
Red background with white text box and black and red text. Grayscale illustration of a man in white tuxedo embracing a blonde in evening gown, jewels, and long gloves.
Green and red background with white and yellow text.
Would an alien culture's doom prove the only pathway back to their own futures?
A marijuana cigarette is resting on a coffin rowed by a robed skeleton. The smoke is creating an image of a naked woman.
Crime map on back cover in pink, white, yellow and green.
Blue spine with title, author, publisher and publisher's number in yellow and white.
Science is never neutral - and neither are the stars!
The colony worlds were caught up in a desperate struggle to save themselves from an Earth gone mad…
Invasion from Mars: Interplanetary Stories
Invasion from 2500: a Science Fiction Novel
They came from a world beyond time and space
His lies would decide the fate of two worlds
They sought the final secret of the universe
In the Bone: The Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson
At night, a woman in a suit runs from a man on an island.
At head of title on front cover: She fled in terror with the killer at her heels.
Yellow frame with white text box and red and black text. Publisher's logo at base.
Black spine with author, title, publisher and publisher's number in yellow and white.
Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Deeper thant the Darkness, The Discarded, I'm Looking for Kadak, Riding the Dark Train Out
A dark-haired woman clad in white man's shirt reclines upon a bed, one arm raised languidly. Above her head is a porthole, with an island and palm trees visible. Before her a man's arm holds up a machine gun by its barrel.
On front cover: Spitfire ransom for a snatched bigshot!
Front cover: black (shadows, background), green (trees, blouse). brown (bench, trousers, skirt tones)
A blonde woman in low-cut blouse and pencil skirt slouches seductively against a lamp post in a dark park, smoking a cigarette and cutting her eyes toward two men on a park bench behind her. One man slouches disinterestedly against the bench, while the other cocks an appreciative eyebrow toward the woman. Green trees in background.
At head of title on front cover: The story of a tramp.
On front cover: A Doubleday $1,000 Prize novel.
On back cover: Hungry men … on the bum! Hungry women … on the loose!
White background with green, black and red text, green banners at top and bottom. No graphics.
Green background with title and author name in white.
Tan Lion graphic on front, back, and spine.
Small images of several human figures against the backdrop of a skyscraper. Figures include: a man in suit and tie beginning to fall forward as if shot, a policeman with handgun patting down a man against a brick wall, a woman in sheer negligee leaning in a open doorway, a man aiming a machine gun, the profile of a man in suit and hat, and a woman in a short pink skirt lounging on a bed.
At head of title on cover: The mob moved in--and the city became a coffin in concrete.
On front cover: author of Ride the Gold Mare.
On back cover: Ice picks, bombs, cement overcoats.
Three figures from the front cover are enlarged and reproduced in grayscale: a woman in sheer negligee in an open doorway, the profile of a man in suit and hat, a woman in short dress lounging on a bed.
A dark silhouetted figure falls from the open window of a high white building against a stylized backdrop of blue sky and clouds and two other buildings.
On front cover: Another Philip Marlowe Mystery.
On back cover: Philip Marlowe and the missing doubloon.
On back cover: Share this book with someone in uniform.
Yellow background with white text boxes and black text
Yellow background with gray banners and black stripes, text in black.
Kangaroo reading a book on front, back and spine.
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-
Planned death vs. unwanted birth in the Overpop Era
Time-lines clash as Earth becomes a battleground for alien creatures and men of the far future!
Two women confront a man with a briefcase that is approaching their front porch.
At head of title on front cover: She lured him into the world's oldest trap.
Front cover illustration wraps around to back. Left side of back cover has a yellow background and has text in black and red.
The gripping finale to the grand epic adventure that began in "Gateway", the award-winning international bestseller
A gripping novel of the far future by the author of SF's big bestseller "Dune"
Alien demons join hands with the ghosts of Earth to conquer tomorrow!
English translation original copyright 1973
A blonde woman in strapless white evening gown recoils against a red curtain, grasping the material in both hands. A dark-haired man in black tuxedo crouches menacingly before her, one hand raising toward her. The woman's expression of fear may be directed toward the man or beyond him. A dark figure or statue frames the cover.
Yellow background with red title banner and text in black, title text in white. No graphics.
Red background with text in white and yellow.
Screw in circle on front and back covers and spine.
De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000
Strange and wondrous journeys into other worlds
Thrilling adventures in interplanetary space
Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988
A formally dressed man and woman stare in horror at the figure of a man sprawled over a scattering of poker chips.
At head of title on front cover: Death picks a winner!
On back cover: When a little man starts betting too big, the payoff is … poison!
A stylized street map depicts colorful buildings, palm trees, shore with sailboats. Whitecliffe Language School, The Hotel Ruhl, and Casino Mediterrane are featured.
Light blue background with author name, title, blurb, series number, and publisher name in black.
On back cover: A Dell Mystery keyhole logo
A man and woman are talking in a public place with other men looking on.
At head of title on front cover: A taut novel of the outcasts of society.
Yellow background with text in green, red, and black. Publisher's logo at base.
Yellow spine with title, author, publisher's logo and number on spine.
Did the ancient cards hold the secret of a planetary hell?
Front cover features two inset illustrations. In one, a man embraces a dark-haired, evening gown clad woman, resting his head against her breasts. In the other, a man stands smoking, looking at a blonde woman lounging in the sheets of a bed.
On front cover: The longest night of their lives--and the most dangerous.
On front cover: Author of And Where She Stops.
Red background with simple white graphic of notebook paper as text box.
Red background with text in white and black.
Bruised and bleeding man is threatened with a rifle by three men clad in jeans. One man is also holding rope.
At head of cover: Lynch-law takes over as a town goes mad with vengeance. A very unusual murder mystery by Ellery Queen.
Yellow and grey background with black and red text.
Grey title, author, publisher and number in black.
Image of a green glass mask, a brown hand and some type of black object.
Yellow with author, title, publisher logo in black, white and red.
Ninth printing. Novel originally published 1931.
A man in suit and hat, cigarette in mouth, warily raises his hands as another man raises a gun toward him.
At head of title on front cover: A Ned Beaumont Mystery
At foot of front cover: Pocket Book Edition, complete & unabridged.
In box on back cover: Send this book to a boy in the armed forces anywhere for only 3¢ postage.
Blue background with black banner at head and foot
"pb" in circle on front cover and spine.
The invaders of Earth were beautiful! …A different science-fiction novel
Beyond the end of time lies Earth's hope - or eternal madness
WARNING: This book contains…alien planets, superhuman intelligences, all that's curious and terrifying
The fate of Sector General's most important patient lay in the hands of the one doctor whose medicine had killed thousands…
Young blonde woman clad in a tattered white slip and purple robe appears terrified in the midst of a torrential storm.
At head of title on front cover: The story of a passion that knew no law.
Yellow frame border with white text inside. Publisher's logo at bottom.
Yellow spine with title, author and publisher's logo and numbering in black.
Red, white, blue ribbon with a gold medal medallion.