Jim Thompson book series, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (1997–1999)

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The Nothing Man (1953), 1997. Photo by Alexander Rodchenko.

Covers for a series of books by crime fiction writer Jim Thompson (1906–1977), published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in the late 1990s.

Design by Chin-Yee Lai. Title and author’s name are shown in caps from Neue Helvetica Extended Black. The blurbs are added in Letter Gothic.

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The Rip-Off (c.1970, first published in book from in 1989), 1999. Photo by Ed Holub.

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The Golden Gizmo (1954), 1999

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Roughneck (1954), 1998. Photo by Ed Holub.

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Bad Boy (1953), 1997. Photo by Laura Hanifin.

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The Kill-Off (1957), 1999. Photo by Ed Holub.

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