
1956 Dutton hardcover, first edition

cover art attributed to Mitchell Hooks

1950 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips

new cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1956 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

cover art by Kirwin

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


cover art by Verne Tossey

1953 Houghton Mifflin hardcover
his first published novel

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.

1935 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1941 Pocket paperback
3rd with Sir Henry Merrivale, master of the ‘impossible crime’ solution

1964 Pyramid paperback original
cover art attributed to Robert Maguire, other thoughts are Rudy Nappi
2nd with series character John Keith, agent of A.P.E.