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November 1930 issue ~ cover art by Alec Redmond

November 1930

cover art by Alec Redmond

September 08, 2016

April 1933 issue ~ cover art by Alan Hughes

April 1933

cover art by Alan Hughes

Cancelled Redhead x 2

pseudonym of E(dgar) Hoffman Price

1952 Falcon paperback original

cover art by Howell Dodd

1954 Phantom reissue from Australia with “copied” cover art

The Venus Death x 3

1953 Mill hardcover

cover art by Isabel Dawson

1st of 7 books in his series with Massachusetts State Trooper Ralph Lindsay

1954 Bantam reissue

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

1953 Presses de la Cité, French paperback edition

Texas by the Tail X 4

1965 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

better image than previously posted

1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK

1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue

2012 Mulholland reissue

Black Wings Has My Angel x 6

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

also published by Berkley as One for My Money in 1962 and a French film in 1990, It’s Freezing in Hell

cover art by Charles Copeland

Phantom reissue in Australia

2011 Bruin reissue

2013 Black Curtain Press reissue

2016 NYRB Classics

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.