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
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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”
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)
[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]
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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
SMB Noir 
