Tag: pocket paperback

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.

1941 Philadelphia Enquirer Newspaper Supplement

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Summer 1941 issue – cover art by Wilson Scruggs

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1945 Pocket reprint

cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman

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1952 Winter issue – cover art by George Gross

1953 Pyramid reissue with new title

1957 Dell reissue

1958 Dutch edition from Kroonder,Bussum

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1968 Ace reissue

1984 Ballantine reissue

cover art by Laurence Schwinger

2021 American Mystery Classics trade paperback

1950 Pocket reissue – cover art by Frank Smith

published in 1949 by Collins in London and Doubleday in NYC

born in Rangoon, Morna Doris Brown wrote as Elizabeth Ferrars in England but the US publishers changed it to E.X. Ferrars.

1950 Pocket reissue

cover art by Frank Smith

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1948 Pocket reissue ~ cover art by Roswell Keller

pseudonym of Hugh Callingham Wheeler, who also wrote as Q.Patrick and Jonathan Stagge, and collaborated with Richard Wilson Webb under all three names.

4th in his series with Peter Duluth series, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1945 as Puzzle for Wantons. This is the 1948 Pocket edition, re-titled.

cover art by Roswell Keller

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