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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

better image than previously posted

1953 Presses de la Cité, French paperback edition

Black Wings Has My Angel x 6

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

also published by Berkley as One for My Money in 1962 and a French film in 1990, It’s Freezing in Hell

cover art by Charles Copeland

Phantom reissue in Australia

2011 Bruin reissue

2013 Black Curtain Press reissue

2016 NYRB Classics

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.