cover art by Verne Tossey
1953 Houghton Mifflin hardcover
his first published novel
The Bounty Hunters x 2
Tag: ballantine paperback
1960 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Richard Powers
cover art by Richard Powers
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu – “Sir Dominick’s Bargain”
Max Beerbohm – “Enoch Soames”
Lord Dunsany – “A Deal with the Devil”
Robert Arthur – “Satan and Sam Shay”
Arthur Porges – “The Devil and Simon Flagg”
John Masefield – “The Devil and the Old Man”
Henry Kuttner – “Threshold”
Anthony Boucher – “Nellthu”
Theodore R. Cogswell – “Threesie”
Ford McCormack – “Hell-Bent”
John Collier – “The Devil, George, and Rosie”
Bruce Elliott – “The Devil Was Sick”
The Case of the Sunbather’s Diary x 7
1955 Morrow hardcover / 50th Perry Mason novel
1958 Cardinal reissue – cover art by Mitchell Hooks
Heinemann released the UK hardcover in 1961
1963 Pan reissue – cover art by Harry Sheldon
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1963 Pocket reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
1970s Mayflower edition from the UK
The Bride Wore Black x 11
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
Black Alibi x 8
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
Killer in the Rain x 2
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories.
“Killer in the Rain” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1935)
“The Man Who Liked Dogs” (Black Mask Magazine, Mar. 1936)
“The Curtain” (Black Mask Magazine, Sept. 1936)
“Try the Girl” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1937)
“Mandarin’s Jade” (Dime Detective Magazine, Nov. 1937)
“Bay City Blues” (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
“The Lady in the Lake” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1939)
“No Crime in the Mountains”(Detective Story Magazine, Sept. 1941)
introduction by Philip Durham
1st Pocket edition, December 1965
June 1973 Bantam reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
July 1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
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Pickup on Noon Street x 7
cover art by Tom Dunn
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cover art by Robert Maguire
1965 Pocket reissue (7th printing, October of ’65)
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June 1973 Ballantine reissue*
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print*
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
cover art credited to Richard Waldrep
“Pickup On Noon Street” (Detective Fiction Weekly, May 1936, originally titled “Noon Street Nemesis”)
“Smart-Aleck Kill” (Black Mask Magazine, July 1934)
“Guns at Cyrano’s” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1936)
“Nevada Gas” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
these stories were first gathered into a book in 1950, Houghton Mifflin’s The Simple Art of Murder
[*covers from owner’s own copies]
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The Simple Art of Murder x 2
June 1972 Ballantine reissue, 1st print
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
includes:
“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944)
“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov. 1935)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 1939)
“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar. 1938)
“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
Trouble is My Business x 2
June 1973 Ballantine reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd printing
includes:
introduction by Raymond Chandler, originally from The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950)
“Trouble is My Business” (Dime Detective Magazine, Aug. 1939)
“Finger Man” (Black Mask Magazine, Oct. 1934)
“Goldfish” (Black Mask Magazine, June 1936)
“Red Wind” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1938)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
[covers from owner’s own copies]
The Simple Art of Murder
1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1944)
“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov 1935)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 1939)
“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar 1938)
“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
SMB Noir 
