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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, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ralph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes part two of "The Green Flame" by Eric North (Bernard Cronin), a science fiction thriller set in Australia. Also "All At Once, No Alice" a classic disappearing woman story 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.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories by Cornell Woolrich "Cool, Calm and Detected", Robert Reeves, Roger Torrey, Hugh B. Cave, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
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. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
BLACK MASK.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Cornell Woolrich "Picture Frame," Carroll John Daly, Dale Clark, W. T. Ballard and others. 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. 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.
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.
DEAD MAN BLUES.
New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d., [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. A Mercury Book, No. 135. Digest size magazine format. Abridged.
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.
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. 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).
BORROWED CRIME: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #42. Digest size format. Collects four stories, two from Black Mask. Borrowed Crime [Black Mask], The Cape Triangular [Detective Fiction Weekly], Detective William Brown [Detective Fiction Weekly] and Chance [Black Mask].
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).
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.
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.