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ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Marshall Frantz, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes part one of "Señor Flatfoot" by Cornell Woolrich, concerns a New York officer on an extradition mission south of the border. This story is not often reprinted.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Black Cargo" by Cornell Woolrich (Apparently uncollected).
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Your Own Funeral" by Cornell Woolrich,
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Gun for Gringo" by Cornell Woolrich (Apparently uncollected), other fiction by Anthony Rud, George Bruce, Johnston McCulley.
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Cornell Woolrich, "After Dinner Story," Dwight Babcock, Steve Fisher and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68].
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News Company, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Murder on My Mind" by Cornell Woolrich (this story was later revised as "The Morning After Murder.") Also fiction by Dale Clark, Max Brand, Robert Leitfred and others. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades. It is greatly underrated today" - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 135-137.
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by Pyles, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Round Trip to the Cemetery" by Cornell Woolrich (apparently uncollected). Also fiction by Steve Fisher, Oscar Schisgall, Wyatt Blassingame and others. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades. It is greatly underrated today" - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 135-137.
DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "The Black Path of Fear" by Cornell Woolrich. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 142-144].
SWEETHEART STORIES.
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part one (of four) of "Deserted!" by Cornell Woolrich. "...is historically important as Woolrich's first piece of fiction during his crime-writing period that approached the length of a novel, and to the student of his earlier work it's a fascinating mix of conventional romance ingredients with customary Woolrich plot flubs-and with material lifted bodily from two previous pulp suspense tales." - Nevins, Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die, p. 204. It does have crime elements (a woman marries a gangster), and has not been reprinted, which may be for the best.
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Those Who Kill" by Cornell Woolrich (this story was later expanded into THE PHANTOM LADY) and "The Charitable Countess" by Leslie Charteris (with the "Saint"). "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades. It is greatly underrated today" - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 135-137.
FRIGHT.
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition.
AFTER-DINNER STORY.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of six stories, including the classic "Rear Window," basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film (1954). Queen's Quorum #97. [Reference: Hubin, p. 431].
THE BEST OF WILLIAM IRISH.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, n.d. [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects The Phantom Lady, After Dinner Story and Deadline at Dawn.
THE BLUE RIBBON.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eight stories, three of which were adapted for the television anthology series "The Ford Television Theatre" (1955-57).
THE DANCING DETECTIVE.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. The short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" was the source for the noir film The Guilty (1947).
DEAD MAN BLUES.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. Story collection. The story "Fire Escape" was filmed as The Window in 1949 and The Boy Cried Murder in 1966, the story "If the Dead Could Talk" was filmed as Obsession in 1954 and again in 1984 as Cloak and Dagger, several other stories were also filmed in Japan and Argentina.
DEADLINE AT DAWN.
[New York]: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Graphic #16. First Graphic edition. Abridged from the hardcover. First paperback edition is an Armed Services edition.
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE.
New York: Avon Books, 1945. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #31. Paperback original, digest size. Collects six stories.
LADY FANTOME (THE PHANTOM LADY).
Paris: Fournier-Valdes, [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First French edition. Softcover. First French edition of The Phantom Lady.
SIX TIMES DEATH.
New York: Popular Library, [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First trade paperback edition. Popular Library 137. First published in hardcover as After Dinner Story, published in an Armed Services edition in softcover, this is the first trade paperback edition, also first with this new title.
STRANGLER'S SERENADE.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A series of murders terrify a small town.
DEADLY NIGHT CALL.
[Hasbrouck Heights, NJ: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Graphic Books 31. First published in hardcover as Somebody on the Phone. Collection of six stories.
ANGELS OF DARKNESS...introduction by Harlan Ellison.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Harlan Ellison who wrote the introduction. Collects eight stories, seven first published in pulp magazines, one from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. All stories told from the woman's point of view. Afterword by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
BEYOND THE NIGHT.
New York: Avon Book Division, [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon #T-354. Paperback original. No hardcover edition. Collection of six stories, most from magazine sources. "My Lips Destroy" is a heavily revised version of "Vampire's Honeymoon" from Horror Stories (1939).
BLACK ALIBI.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Octavo, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition. A suspense thriller, the third of Woolrich's "black books." Basis for the 1943 film noir The Leopard Man produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Margo. [Reference: Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 288].