pocket paperback – Page 2

1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by William Wirtz

1948 Rinehart hardcover, his 6th “Black” title

1949 Pocket reissue

cover art by William Wirtz

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1954 Pocket edition – cover art by George Mayers

1954 Pocket

cover art by George Mayers

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1949 Pocket reissue – cover art by Bernard Safran

1945 hardcover, Collins in the UK and Little Brown in the US

1949 Pocket reissue

cover art by Bernard Safran

13th with Inspector Roderick Alleyn, one of two she set in her native New Zealand

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4 x The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

April 1952 Morrow hardcover

41st Perry Mason novel

1957 Pocket reissue

cover photo of Ellen Burstyn by Silver Studios

1961 Great Pan edition from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer

November 1962 Pocket reissue, 5th printing

cover art Robert McGinnis

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The Bride Wore Black x 11

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.