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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.
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.
I WOULDN'T BE IN YOUR SHOES.
New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition (abridged). A Mercury Book, No. 82. 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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
MARIHUANA.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Bill Fleming, pictorial wrappers. First 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. Hubin, p. 431.
THE PHANTOM LADY.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket #253.
PHANTOM LADY.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-291 [292], original blue cloth, spine stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore edge uncut. First edition. "This is the kind of waking nightmare that is the essence of noir fiction, and in his fourth suspense novel Cornell Woolrich writing under the pseudonym William Irish, captures superbly the emotional torment and terror of the situation" Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 398-99. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. Made into a film noir directed by Robert Siodmak in 1944. Hubin, p. 431. Johnson, The Dark Page pp. 290-291.
SIX NIGHTS OF MYSTERY.
New York: Popular Library, [1950]. Small octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library 258. Paperback original. Collection of six stories, all from pulps, three from Argosy, three from Black Mask, several with title changes. Hubin, p. 431.
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.
STRANGLER'S SERENADE.
New York: Popular Library, [1952]. Small octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library 431.