
1948 Dutton hardcover – a Guilt Edged Selection


1951 Boardman hardcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1952 Boardman softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin
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1958 Corgi reissue in Britain

1948 Dutton hardcover – a Guilt Edged Selection


1951 Boardman hardcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1952 Boardman softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin
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1958 Corgi reissue in Britain

1958 Horwitz paperback original from Australia

The Blonde, Carter Brown paperback cover, 1958 Signet
Gouache on board, 28 x 18 inches (71.1 x 45.7 cm) (image)
Signed faintly lower right: Barye


undated Dutch edition – cover art by Moriën

1967 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
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later Signet reissue – cover art by Barye Phillips

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


1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover
Kane’s debut novel and debut of Chambers

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1950 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

Kane’s first with private eye (Kane preferred “private Richard”) Peter Chambers, a 1947 Simon & Schuster hardcover. The title was changed for the revised 1956 Avon softcover.
cover art by Ray Johnson

1955 Boardman paperback – Denis McLoughlin cover art

1960 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
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