Month: December 2025

September 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

September 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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June 15, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

June 15 – July 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Hand of Horror” (Reed Sampsell)

Frederick Nebel, “Chains of Darkness” (Cardigan)

Frederick C. Davis, “Dead Men Walk” (Det. Lt. Bartholomew Brandt)

Richard J. Credicott, “The Ghoul of Murder Manor”

Phantom Lady x 5

March 4, 1939

Cornell Woolrich’s “Those Who Kill” published, which he expanded into Phantom Lady

WOOLRICH, Cornell (“William Irish”). Phantom Lady. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1942].

8o. Original cloth (some dampstain, spine discolored); pictorial dust jacket (one corner clipped, slight wear to spine panel ends and corners).

FIRST EDITION of the first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym and the basis for Robert Siodmak’s 1944 film noir adaptation.

1944 Pocket reissue

cover art by Lesso Manso

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1955 Graphic reissue, abridged

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2012 Centipede Press hardcover reissue

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Dialogue and Continuity for the 1944 film.

White titled self-wrappers, noted as Dialogue Continuity on the front wrapper, production No. 1346, dated January 5, 1944, with credits for director Robert Siodmak. Approximately 110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 13. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a small closed tear at the top edge, bound with two gold brads along the top edge.

September 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

September 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

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John K. Butler, “The Secret of the Wax Lady” (Tricky Enright)

Edward S. Williams, “Money in the Trees” (Paul Dana)

J.A.L. Chambliss, “A Corpse in the Rough” (Sid Harrison)

William Edward Hayes, “The Strip-Tease Murders” (Pete Niles)

Thorp McClusky, “Phantom Fingerprint”

O.B. Myers, “Death Takes the Winner”

August 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Peter Paige, “The Riddle of Pap Rio” (Cash Wale)

H.H. Stinson, “The Good-Murder Policy” (Pete Rousseau)

D.L. Champion, “One Killer Too Many” (Insp. Allhoff)

Frederick C. Davis, “All This and Homicide Too” (Sam Squire of the Drumm Agency)