Category: hardcover

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.

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

Dewey and Miller

1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English

3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani

1950 Signet reissue

1955 reissue

Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed

– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –

1957 Phantom edition from Australia

1963 Signet reissue

1993 Perennial reissue

The Dark Tunnel x 6

1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title

cover art by Clark Hulings

1972 Bantam reissue

1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh

2013 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue

The Virgin Kills x 3

WHITFIELD, Raoul (1897?-1945). The Virgin Kills. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.

8o. Original canary yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket by J.V.W. Oliver (very minor chipping to ends of spine panel; short tear to lower edge of back panel).

FIRST EDITION, in the scarce dust jacket. “Death went up the river with the Virgin, Eric Vennell’s yacht, when that millionaire gambler sailed for the Regatta at Poughkeepsie with his oddly assorted guests” (dust jacket). Illustration on page 56.

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1986 Quill paperback reissue of his 1932 hardcover

Apparently, the novel was not serialized in any magazine before publication

March 14, 2013

1988 No Exit Press from the UK

cover photo by Weegee