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SÉRIE NOIRE GALLERY: COVERS

Simple and distinctive were the Série Noire covers.
From the very first printings to the recent issues, black is their shade...

In this section we will give a view of the evolution of the covers style from the very beginning to the today issues. The content is certainly more important than the appearances of the covers, but they certainly participated to the legend of Série Noire.

Austere and in shining black... just as the best novels they harbor.

^{'La Môme Vert-de-Gris' by Peter Cheney

Hardcover of the first novel published in 1945 (here: reprint of 1950)}

**EVOLUTION OF COVERS**

Raymond Chandler- SN45 Dust cover of the first books.Will be used as soft cover design after SN 413	Jean Vautrin- SN1611 First modification of design	Michael Collins- SuN28 Super Noire series Looks very close to the previous, except for a photo

Nat Hentoff- SN1927
Big changes in 1979!
Title in white, border in yellow. And.. a small photo Max Allan Collins-
SN 2172
From 1983 there is now a color drawing Thierry Jonquet- SN2313
After 1991, back to the original design of the 40's!
A classic look!

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Nat Hentoff- SN1927 Big changes in 1979! Title in white, border in yellow. And.. a small photo	Max Allan Collins- SN 2172 From 1983 there is now a color drawing	Thierry Jonquet- SN2313 After 1991, back to the original design of the 40's! A classic look!