Tag: cornell woolrich

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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1945 Pocket reprint

cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman

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1952 Winter issue – cover art by George Gross

1953 Pyramid reissue with new title

1957 Dell reissue

1958 Dutch edition from Kroonder,Bussum

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1968 Ace reissue

1984 Ballantine reissue

cover art by Laurence Schwinger

2021 American Mystery Classics trade paperback

Black Alibi x 8

July/August 1939 issue

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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1943 Handi-Book digest

1943 RKO adaptation

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

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”

October 1941 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

October 1941 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)

T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”

Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

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Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue

January 1938 issue ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

January 1938 issue

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

~ Dwight V. Babcock, “The Widow Regrets”, 1st of 7 Beeker (“Beek”) stories, 15th of 21 stories in BM

~ Thomas W. Duncan, “The Cat and the Corpse”, ‘Dan Macey’, author’s only story in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “No Gentleman Strangles His Wife”, ‘Kip I. Muldane, p.i. in Hawaiian’, 2nd of 9 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Blood in the Fog”, 31st of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, ‘Black Burton in London’, 38th of 39 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Relative Trouble”, ‘Shean Connell, private peep; last of 4 SC stories’, 32nd of 50 appearances in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “After-Dinner Story”, 9th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

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October 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)

Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”

Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)

Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”

W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”

Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”

Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”

1952 Popular Library – cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Cornell Woolrich writing under the pen name William Irish

published in hardcover by Rinehart in 1951, this the later 1952 Popular Library softcover

his last novel published as William Irish

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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