cornell woolrich – SMB Noir

Savage Bride x 2

1950 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

1957 Gold Medal reissue

new cover art by Barye Phillips

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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.

July 1939 issue

July 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould?

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D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”

Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)

1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Wirtz

1948 Rinehart hardcover, his 6th “Black” title

1949 Pocket reissue

cover art by William Wirtz

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May 1947 issue

May 1947 issue

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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.