Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Perry Mason Part III

In Parts I and II of this Perry Mason series I've discussed the nearly 900 Pocket Book printings of the 82 PM novels. There were, of course, many other publishers of the PM books - Penguin and Pan in the UK, Ballantine in the US and smaller publishers. But, with one exception, the covers on all of these editions never showed Perry Mason. The one exception is an odd Australian hybrid of two publishers. Described as "published by Penguin Books ... in conjunction with Horwitz Publications", the seven PM novels have Penguin text and Horwitz covers. 

Perry Mason aka Raymond Burr is seen on five of the books and one has Paul Drake aka William Hopper. There is one Horwitz Gardner book that has Burr on the cover and is advertised as a Perry Mason story. But it isn't. It is TCOT Smoking Chimney.

Below is one of the Raymond Burr covers plus an earlier edition from UK publisher British Publishers Guild. 

Penguin/Horwitz H965 - 1961

British Publishers Guild 418 - second printing 1952

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