Phantom Lady x 5

March 4, 1939

Cornell Woolrich’s “Those Who Kill” published, which he expanded into Phantom Lady

WOOLRICH, Cornell (“William Irish”). Phantom Lady. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1942].

8o. Original cloth (some dampstain, spine discolored); pictorial dust jacket (one corner clipped, slight wear to spine panel ends and corners).

FIRST EDITION of the first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym and the basis for Robert Siodmak’s 1944 film noir adaptation.

1944 Pocket reissue

cover art by Lesso Manso

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1955 Graphic reissue, abridged

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2012 Centipede Press hardcover reissue

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Dialogue and Continuity for the 1944 film.

White titled self-wrappers, noted as Dialogue Continuity on the front wrapper, production No. 1346, dated January 5, 1944, with credits for director Robert Siodmak. Approximately 110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 13. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a small closed tear at the top edge, bound with two gold brads along the top edge.

So Rich, So Lovely and So Dead x 2

oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg

1953 Pocket reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

1961 Dell reissue

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1961 Pocket paperback reissue – cover art by Harry Bennett

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote as Stewart Sterling

1960 Doubleday hardcover, this the later 1961 Pocket paperback

cover art by Harry Bennett

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The Case of the Smoking Chimney x 5

1943  Morrow hardcover

1950 Pocket reissue

2nd book with Gramps Wiggins

cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

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1963 Horwitz edition from Australia

1963 British edition from Penguin

cover art by Sheila Perry

1959 Pocket paperback original – cover art by Morgan Kane

1959 Pocket paperback original

cover art by Morgan Kane

better image than previously posted