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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. Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 288.
BLACK ALIBI.
New York: [Jonathan Press, Inc.] n.d., [194?]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. A Jonathan Press Mystery NO. J-23. Digest size magazine format. Abridged. This edition published after the Handi-Books paperback edition.
THE BLACK ANGEL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 294.
THE BLACK CURTAIN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Octavo, original red cloth stamped in white and black, top edge stained black. First edition. The second of the "Black" books, a noir suspense novel. Filmed in 1942 as "Street of Chance" with Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor and Sheldon Leonard. Also adapted successfully for the CBS radio program "Suspense" and produced for "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962). "Faulty it may be, but THE BLACK CURTAIN is surely one of the best suspense novels ever written on the overworked theme of amnesia" - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 860-861. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 286.
THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring Robert Cummings and Peter Lorre. Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 296.
THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., n.d., [1944?]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Probable first paperback edition. Thriller Novel Classic No. 29. Digest sized format. An abridged edition. This is likely the first paperback edition preceding the Avon 1946 paperback edition. Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring Robert Cummings and Peter Lorre. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE: TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH.
New York: Walker and Company, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Woolrich on the front end paper: "To Ethel & Karl Paley / Sincerely, / Cornell Woolrich." As with all Woolrich books, scarce signed, especially so as the author was quite reclusive and this title is one of the last two published during his lifetime (he died in 1968).
THE DOOM STONE.
New York: Avon Book Division, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon T-408. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Woolrich to artist John 'Jack' Gaughan on copyright page by the author - "To Jack Gaughan / Con Woolrich." Starting in the 1950s Jack Gaughan was an important Science Fiction and Fantasy artist doing illustrations and cover paintings for Ace Books, DAW Books, Pyramid Books, Galaxy magazine and many others. He won the Hugo award for best artist several times in his long career. Jack Gaughan was also a mystery fan and admirer of Cornell Woolrich. While living in New York in the 1960s Mr. Gaughan was introduced to Mr. Woolrich. Mr. Woolrich and Mr. Gaughan developed a friendship and saw each other socially, often at McSorley's Ale House in the city, also Mr. Gaughan along with his wife frequently entertained him for home cooked meals. This book is signed by Woolrich using his nickname of "Con" (see Nevins: Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die, p. 407). This novel was serialized in Argosy Magazine, January 14-February 4, 1939 in four parts, the final part differs from the book version.
NIGHTMARE.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories, two first published here, two others published here for the first time in a book.
RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK.
New York, Toronto: Rinehard & Company, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last of the "Black" novels. The protagonist seeks revenge on five people involved in the death of his fiancé. Hubin, p. 879.
THE TEN FACES OF CORNELL WOOLRICH...
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Hubin, p. 879.
THE TIME OF HER LIFE.
New York: Mayfair Publishing Co., n.d., [c.1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-96, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Published by Mayfair in paperback, part of a reprint series of "Popular Novels." A jazz age novel.
DARKNESS AT DAWN: EARLY SUSPENSE CLASSICS...
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern University Illinois Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, including "Murder in Wax" which Woolrich used for part of the novel THE BLACK ANGEL.
DARKNESS AT DAWN: EARLY SUSPENSE CLASSICS...
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern University Illinois Press, [1985]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, including "Murder in Wax" which Woolrich used for part of the novel THE BLACK ANGEL.
THE FANTASTIC STORIES OF CORNELL WOOLRICH.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Eight stories of fantasy and horror, two appearing in book form for the first time. Long introduction by Francis M. Nevins.
THE FANTASTIC STORIES OF CORNELL WOOLRICH.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Eight stories of fantasy and horror, two appearing in book form for the first time. Long introduction by Francis M. Nevins.
NIGHTWEBS.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row, Publishers, [1971]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Nevins, the editor. A collection of sixteen stories, this is the first hardcover publication for most (most first published in pulp magazines). Long introduction by the editor, short comment after each story, checklist of works in the rear.
NIGHTWEBS.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row, Publishers, [1971]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A collection of sixteen stories, this is the first hardcover publication for most (most first published in pulp magazines). Long introduction by the editor, short comment after each story, checklist of works in the rear.
ALL-AMERICAN FICTION.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Cornell Woolrich novella ("I'm Dangerous Tonight"). Other fiction by H. Bedford Jones, Richard Sale, George Bruce, Max Brand and others.
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Living Lie Down With the Dead" by Cornell Woolrich. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, Fred MacIsaac and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Living Lie Down With the Dead" by Cornell Woolrich. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, Fred MacIsaac and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.