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The Golden Spiders x 6

1953 Viking hardcover

22nd Nero Wolfe book

1955 Bantam reissue

cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1964 Bantam reissue

1964 UK edition from Fontana

cover art by Renato Fratini

1972 French edition

1989 Bantam reissue

4 x The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

April 1952 Morrow hardcover

41st Perry Mason novel

1957 Pocket reissue

cover photo of Ellen Burstyn by Silver Studios

1961 Great Pan edition from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer

November 1962 Pocket reissue, 5th printing

cover art Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

Headed for a Hearse x 8

1936 Double Day hardcover

A Crime Club selection

3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936

1950 Century paperback

– cover art by Duur

1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84

cover art by ED Emshwiller

1960 Great Pan reissue

better image than previously posted

1964 McFadden paperback reissue

better image than previously posted

1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place

2022 American Mystery Classics

WOOLRICH, Cornell (1903-68). The Bride wore Black. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

8o. Original cloth (slight lean); pictorial dust jacket by Charles Coleman (price-clipped, tiny chip to back panel, slight rubbing to joints and folds). Provenance: Nina Kelly Bruce (bookplate, signatures on front and back endpapers).

FIRST EDITION of Woolrich’s first mystery and a landmark of noir. “There are no suspects, no clues, yet the reader is tensely aware of mystery. There is only the woman, her victims, and the relentless drama of her life–a pale shadow that comes gradually into focus and is seen at last in brilliant outline” (dust jacket). The basis for François Truffaut’s film starring Jeanne Moreau. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.