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CAREER IN C MAJOR.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Avon #141. First separate mass market paperback book edition, first printing, (the first paperback printing was issued by Avon in digest with two other short novels, Avon Short Story Monthly #22).
CAREER IN C MAJOR.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947, i.e. 1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. New printing of Avon #141, some minor changes to cover art.
HARD CAIN: SINFUL WOMAN, JEALOUS WOMAN, THE ROOT OF HIS EVIL.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. First American hardcover publication of JEALOUS WOMAN and THE ROOT OF HIS EVIL.
JEALOUS WOMAN.
London: Robert Hale Limited, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. This also includes the first British hardcover publication of SINFUL WOMAN.
JEALOUS WOMEN.
New York: Avon Book Publishing Co., Inc., [1951]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, thus. Avon #348. First trade paperback edition, this first appeared as Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #17.
LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. The novel is "...a brutal picture of a corrupt, crime-ridden town in the manner of Hammett's RED HARVEST and McCoy's NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD..." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 144. Filmed in 1956 as Slightly Scarlet, a film noir, directed by Allan Dwan with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 259-260. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 390. Johnson, The Dark Page II, p. 30.
LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. The novel is "...a brutal picture of a corrupt, crime-ridden town in the manner of Hammett's RED HARVEST and McCoy's NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD..." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 144. Filmed in 1956 as Slightly Scarlet, a film noir, directed by Allan Dwan with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 259-260. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 390. Johnson, The Dark Page II, p. 30.
THE MOTH.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Octavo, jacket illustration by Hawkins, original gray cloth, front and spine stamped in green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut, top edge stained yellow. First edition. A novel of a young man's journey through life and love during the Depression and carrying through WW II and after. Cain considered this one of his best novels. Hubin, p. 125.
PAST ALL DISHONOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Adventure and suspense novel set in the American west of the silver boom.
RAINBOW'S END.
New York: Mason/Charter, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Cain on the half title page: "To-- / with love, / & the hope (?) / enjoy it / Jim / Hyattsville, Md / July 8, 1975."
THE SINFUL WOMAN.
New York: Avon Book Publishing Co., Inc., [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, thus. Avon #174. First trade paperback edition, this first appeared as Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #1.