1953; Home is upriver by Brain Harwin. unknown Artist Saul Tepper

James M. Cain: The butterfly.

Signet Books 1955 (fourth printing).

James Avati's cover art for J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", 1953. [White box painted over in grey, possibly by Stanley Meltzoff.]

Original painting sold for $21,510 at Heritage Auctions October 15, 2010.

1956; The Killing by Lionel White. Cover art by Robert Maguire

James T. Farrell - An American Dream Girl

Signet Books 1031, 1953

Cover photo of James T. Farrell by E. Sottsass, Jr

"Heartbeats - New York... Chicago... Paris"

1953; Four Days in a Lifetime by Georges Simenon. Cover art by Stanley Zuckerberg

Erskine Caldwell: A lamp for nightfall.

Signet Books 1954.

Cover art by James Avati.

Rosamond Marshall - The Temptress

(Original Title: Jane Hadden)

Signet Books 976, 1952

Cover Artist: unknown

"From slave girl to the toast of London."

Sir Walter Scott - The Lady of the Lake and Other Poems

Signet Classics CT147, 1962

Cover Artist: James Hill

John Steinbeck: Tortilla flat.

Signet Books 1959 (tenth printing).

H.E. Bates: Summer in Salandar.

Signet Books 1958.

Cover art by Richard Powers.

1954; The Beautiful Trap by Bill S. Ballinger. unknown artist

1956; The Living Idoll writen by Robert Switzer. Cover by Robert Maguire

1953; Dangerous Voyage by Gore Vidal. Cover art by Stanley Meltzoff ??

1958; The Fugitive by Georges Simenon. Cover art by Robert Schulz.

Cesare Pavese: The Moon and the Bonfires.

Translated from the Italian by Marianne Ceconi.

With a foreword by Paolo Milano.

Signet Books 1954.

Cover art by George Erickson.

Christopher Clark - Good Is for Angels

Signet Books 901, 1951

Cover photo of Christopher Clark by Lucien Clark

"The trouble with women."

This was shot on a Nikon D3200 DSLR using a Zeiss Planar 80/2.8 for Hasselblad.

An almost mature mute swan (Cygnus olor) signet.

John Lee Weldon - Thunder in the Heart

Signet Books 1184, 1955

Cover Artist: Clark Hulings

"Can a woman with a past ever find a husband?"

1965; No Blonde is an Island by Carter Brown. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

1949; The Crimson Quirt by William Colt MacDonald. Unknown Artist

Alberto Moravia: Two women.

Signet Books 1960.

Original title: La Ciociara. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson.

Cover by James Avati.

Ray Lawler: Summer of the seventeenth doll.

Signet Books 1959.

Cover art by Jerry Allison.

William Faulkner - Intruder in the Dust

Signet Books 743, 1949

Cover Artist: James Avati

Lillian Smith: Strange fruit.

Signet Books 1948 (3rd printing).

Cover art by Robert Jonas.

1948; Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith. Cover by James Avati.

Erskine Caldwell: Place called Estherville.

Signet Books 1957 (fifth printing).

Cover art by James Avati.

Canon 7D MKI

Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sport

Rene Hardy: Bitter victory.

Signet Books 1957.

Cover art by Robert Schulz.

James M. Cain: The moth.

Signet Books 1950.

Cover art by Alan Harmon.

1954; Search for the Sun by Charles Furcolowe. Cover art by James Avati.

1957; Shoot to Kill by Wade Miller. unknown Artist.

Back cover of: Carter Brown: The temptress.

Signet Books 1966.

Cover art by Ronnie Lesser.

Donald Stokes: Captive in the Night.

Signet Books 1953.

Cover art by D.G. Summers.

Wade Miller (= Robert Wade & Bill Miller): Shoot to kill.

Signet Books 1953.

Cover art by James Meese.

1957; The short Cut by Ennio Flaiano. unknown Artist Stanley Meltzoff. Beautiful black haired bathing woman between the white waterlilacs

1954; Kiss and Kill by Adam Knight. Cover art by Frank Cozzarelli

1955; Street of the Barefoot Lovers by Joseph Foster. Cover art by James Meese. Published by Signet Books.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVuU7fw8wvI

1966; Terror comes creeping by Carter Brown. unknown Artist

1950; A Swell-looking Girl by Erskine Caldwell. Cover art by James Avati

1984 - Walter J. Diethelm

Adam Knight - Girl Running

Signet Books 1347, 1956

Cover Artist: Paul Rader

Adam Knight was a pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

1955; Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper by Georges Simenon. Cover art by Robert Maguire

1950; Shriek with Pleasure by Toni Howard. Cover Art by Mitchell Hooks. This is the oldest Mitchell Hooks cover I could find. Don't know if this is his first cover production. The Style is very different towards his later work.

1950; Murder all over by Cleve F. Adams. unknown Artist

Erskine Caldwell: Certain women.

Signet Books 1958.

Cover art by James Avati.