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FRIGHT.
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition.
FRIGHT.
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A study in fear, as a driving, degenerative force which tells of Prescott Marshall about to marry his Marjorie, when blackmailed by a casual pickup, he accidentally kills her." - Kirkus review, 1949.
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: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Avon #104. This is the first trade paperback edition, first published as a Avon digest sized book. Story collection.
LADY FANTOME (THE PHANTOM LADY).
Paris: Fournier-Valdes, [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First French edition. Softcover. First French edition of The Phantom Lady.
NIGHTMARE: AND OTHER SHORT STORIES.
New York: The Readers-Choice Library, [1950]. Small octavo, cover by Blickenstaff, pictorial wrappers. First trade paperback edition. Readers-Choice Library #12. Abridged from the hardcover I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes; this edition consists of "I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes", "Nightmare" and "Three O'Clock". The first unabridged edition in softcover of I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes was an Armed Services Edition. Most all paperback editions are abridged, a digest edition published in 1944 contains just one of the stories in this edition.
THE PHANTOM LADY.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket #253.
DEADLINE AT DAWN.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Basis for the 1946 film noir of the same name, screenplay by Clifford Odets and starring Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas.
I WOULDN'T BE IN YOUR SHOES.
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five stories, first story collection under the Irish pseudonym. Title story filmed in 1948 from a script by Steve Fisher, the story "Nightmare" was filmed as Fear in the Night (1947) written and directed by Maxwell Shane and featuring DeForest Kelley.
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 film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Queen's Quorum #97.
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 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.
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.
NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing with F&R monogram on copyright page. "This book is what noir literature is all about, a nerve-shredding suspense classic of the highest quality and a work that once read can never be forgotten." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 379. Filmed in 1948 starring Edward G. Robinson, directed by John Farrow and scripted by Barre Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer.
MARIHUANA.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Bill Fleming, pictorial wrappers. First separate edition. Dell 10 cent Book #11. First separate publication in book form. First published in Detective Fiction Weekly (5/31) and in the collection After Dinner Story.
NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing with F&R monogram on copyright page. "This book is what noir literature is all about, a nerve-shredding suspense classic of the highest quality and a work that once read can never be forgotten." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 379. Filmed in 1948 starring Edward G. Robinson, directed by John Farrow and scripted by Barre Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 276. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 203-204. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, pp. 302-304.
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.
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.
New York: Popular Library, [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library #309. Collects eight stories which first appeared in pulp magazines. This is the only paperback printing of this title.
DEADLINE AT DAWN.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Basis for the 1946 film noir of the same name, screenplay by Clifford Odets and starring Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas.
I MARRIED A DEAD MAN.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Filmed twice, first as the film noir No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck and again in France as J'ai épousé une ombre (1982).
STRANGLER'S SERENADE.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A series of murders terrify a small town.
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).