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1957 Robert Hale UK hardcover

1957 Robert Hale UK hardcover, first edition

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February 1949 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

February 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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Andrew Holt, “Some Like ‘Em Cold!” (Shamus Reed)

Russell Bender, “Here’s Lead in Your Teeth”

Robert Martin, “Homicidal Honey” (Lee Fiske)

Michael O’Hillard, “Sinner’s Haven” (P.I. Thorne)

William P. McGivern, “One Lesson in Larceny”

Frederick C. Davis, “Don’t Talk, Chump!”

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

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1953 Presses de la Cité, French paperback edition

Texas by the Tail X 4

1965 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

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1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK

1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue

2012 Mulholland reissue

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.