A man in a suit is wrestling away a gun from a surprised red head dressed in an evening gown.
At head of title on front cover: Trouble trails a wanton woman.
Yellow cover with text in red and black.
Black and yellow spine with title, author, publisher name and numbering in black and white.
Special Collections, University Libraries
First American Publication of Four Soaring Adventures
Drawing of a Colt handgun against a simple city skyline.
In banner at head of cover: A Johnny Fletcher Mystery
On front cover: Complete and unabridged.
Green background with white text box and black text. Author photograph in black and white. Includes author biography.
Green background with white text box and black text.
An "impossible" crime -- on a planet where it was almost impossible for an Earthman to live -- called for the fantastic talents of a robot detective
An anxiety-ridden brunette is scaling a suburban wooden fence in an attempt to flee from someone.
At head of title on front cover: Art studio amours lead to grisly murder.
Crime map on back cover in pink, white, yellow , orange and blue.
Blue with author, title, publisher and publisher's number in white and black.
A murdered blonde woman is lying on a red carpet as a man in a raincoat looks on.
At head of title on front cover: More sensational than I. The Jury. Banner on cover: A new mystery by the author of I, The Jury.
White, green and black background with text in red, black and white.
Green spine with author, title, and publisher's number in black.
Publisher's name and series inside circle.
A black haired woman with a gun is sitting on rocks at night.
Yellow background with text in black and red. Two image insets: one of a blond in white lingerie, another of a man in a suit and hat wielding a gun.
Yellow and dark blue graphic (front cover)
At head of title on front cover: Dead or alive, her middle name was grief to the men who loved - and hated - her.
image of a red-headed woman's head at base.
Yellow spine with title, author and publisher's logo in black.
Red, white, blue ribbon with a gold medal medallion.
A seductive brunette is seated at a table holding a drink. There is a knife on the table.
On front cover: Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Red and white background with text in red and black.
White with author, title, publisher and publisher's number in black.
Back view of a nude woman on a bed, raising herself with arm and pointing a gun with the other. The gun is pointed at a man whose back is turned to the woman as he takes off his shirt. A shuttered screen fills background.
In banner at head of title on front cover: Two complete novels.
At head of title on front cover: Vicious was the word for Valerie.
Yellow background with red and black banners enclosing titles/authors of both novels.
An angry blond woman is holding a bottle up in an attempt to strike at a cowering man in a suit.
At head of title on front cover: A fast-paced mystery. In the cabin with a broken leg, he was helpless as the girl charged.
Crime map on back cover in blue, white, yellow and peach.
Light green background with author, title, publisher, publisher's logo and number in black.
The lighted mirror of a vanity table reflects the body of a pale red-haired woman in red bra slumped in a chair.
On front cover: The only clue to her disappearance was the corpse she left behind.
Background illustration of purple brick wall with white text box and text in red and black.
Black background with white and yellow text.
A woman's mouth is bound with a white cloth and she is tied to a chair. A man with a gun is standing beside her.
A red head in a low-cut green blouse is talking with a man.
Blue background with title, author and publisher and publisher's logo in yellow and white.
Electronic escapades in the lands of tomorrow
In a shadowy alley, against a brick wall, a blonde woman in evening dress and fur stands beside a man in torn jeans and a work shirt. She rests one hand upon his shoulder, looking sadly away. He sits upon a box, holding her hand and looking down.
At head of title on front cover: They met on the street of vagrant love, the stevedore and the girl from uptown.
On front cover: Author of the Street of the Lost.
Gold Medal tri-color ribbon graphic on front, back and spine.
Yellow background with white text box and black text. No graphics.
A haughty red-haired woman stands in profile, casting orange and green shadows behind her. Before her are aligned seven shadowy silhouetted figures, shaking fists and weapons at her.
On back cover: Introducing the Love Club Murders and--
On back cover: "--over whose dead body?"
The silhouettes from front cover are repeated, white against red background.
Red background with yellow and white text.
Seven startling stories of the inhuman and nonhuman by the unrivaled master of the impossible.
At the top of a flight of stairs, a man in a suit protects a blonde woman from an approaching knife-wielding man.
Black and white Image of a man shielding a woman in a yellow box. Background is white
Light green background with author, title
publisher and publisher's number in dark green, black and white.
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.
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.
Magenta background with black text in white oval
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.
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.
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.
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!