cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “The Evil Brand” (Val Easton)
Eric Taylor, “Scarlet Wake” (Jim Kern)
Frederick Nebel, “Pardon My Murder” (Cardigan)
Max Brand, “The Unnumbered Door” (Dave Clovelly)
Cornell Woolrich, “Preview of Death” [revised into “Murder Before the Camera”] (Det. Galbraith)
Sam Powell, “Blood Storm”
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”
Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)
D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”
Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”
1950 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
new cover art by Barye Phillips
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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
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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.
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)
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1948 Rinehart hardcover, his 6th “Black” title
cover art by William Wirtz
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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
SMB Noir 
