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
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
better image than previously posted
1955 Graphic reissue, abridged
better image than previously posted
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.
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
better image than previously posted
1948 Universal Pictures, directed by Norman Foster
1948 Dell mapback with movie tie-in cover
3rd with NYC private detective Johnny Liddell
cover art by John Fernie
better image than previously posted
1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Victor Kalin
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
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
1956 Dell reissue
cover art by Victor Kalin
cover art by Harry Bennett
better image than previously posted
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
1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh
SMB Noir 
