1936 Double Day hardcover
A Crime Club selection
3rd with drunken private eye Bill Crane from 1936
1956 Jonathan Press digest, #84
cover art by ED Emshwiller
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1964 McFadden paperback reissue
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1990 International Polygonics – cover by Jennifer Place
WOOLRICH, Cornell (1903-68). The Bride wore Black. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
8o. Original cloth (slight lean); pictorial dust jacket by Charles Coleman (price-clipped, tiny chip to back panel, slight rubbing to joints and folds). Provenance: Nina Kelly Bruce (bookplate, signatures on front and back endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of Woolrich’s first mystery and a landmark of noir. “There are no suspects, no clues, yet the reader is tensely aware of mystery. There is only the woman, her victims, and the relentless drama of her life–a pale shadow that comes gradually into focus and is seen at last in brilliant outline” (dust jacket). The basis for François Truffaut’s film starring Jeanne Moreau. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
1941 Philadelphia Enquirer Newspaper Supplement
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Summer 1941 issue – cover art by Wilson Scruggs
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cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman
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1952 Winter issue – cover art by George Gross
1953 Pyramid reissue with new title
1958 Dutch edition from Kroonder,Bussum
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cover art by Laurence Schwinger
included Cornell Woolrich’s “Street of Jungle Death”, the basis for his classic novel Black Alibi
1942 Simon & Schuster hardcover, an Inner Sanctum mystery
his 3rd novel as by Woolrich
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1946 American Mercury/Jonathan Press digest – cover art by George Salter
(previous owner’s intrusive signature on cover)
1956 Mercury digest – cover art by George Salter
1965 Collier Mystery reissue – cover accredited to Dick Cuffari
1982 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Laurence Schwinger
An Auto-Ordnance Thompson Model 28-AC submachine gun advertisement (1942)
Shelly Winters as Bloody Mama, “Ma” Kate Barker
De Niro’a 7th movie as son Lloyd Barker
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film, showing actor Alain Delon.
Based on Eugene Saccomano’s 1959 book “Bandits a Marseille.” Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business, vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel, “Borsalino and Co,” in 1974, starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla.
