1936 Man Overboard! by Collins in the UK and Dodd Mead in the US
abridged by Avon in 1947 and published with this alternate title
cover art by Ann Cantor
1947 Avon reissue – cover art by Ann Cantor
Category: hardcover
A Stir of Echoes x 4
1959 Crest edition
cover art by Richard Powers
cover art by Hector Garrido
What’s in it for Me? x 4
1938 Simon and Schuster hardcover
1950 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
cover art attributed to James Avati
nice cover – nice dame, but his right leg simply doesn’t work right… it’s completely out of proportion to his body and left leg – too long!
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The Money Trap x 3
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.
Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.
cover art by Harry Barton
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2 Lenient Beasts
Guilty Bystander x 7 + 2
1947 Farrar Strauss hardcover
1948 Penguin/Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Jonas
1954 Signet reissue – cover art by Saul Tepper
Mitchell Hooks (American, 1923-2013)
Gouache on board, 30 x 18-1/4 inches (76.2 x 46.4 cm)
Initialed center right: MH
Phantom Lady x 5
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.
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.
Die Little Goose x 2
1976 CKK Promotions
Kiss the Blood off My Hand x 3 + 1
first published in Britain by Nicholson
1946 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover, first thus in the US
1947 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
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1948 Universal Pictures, directed by Norman Foster
1948 Dell mapback with movie tie-in cover
SMB Noir 