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The Bride Wore Black
The Bride Wore Black
Woolrich, Cornell - SIGNED BY OTTO PENZLER EXCLUSIVE!
- Publisher: American Mystery Classics
- Date published: 2021
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781613161999
A rare new edition SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. OTTO PENZLER. This new edition has a masterly introduction by Eddie Muller. This is a RARE book in the UK anyway, but it ia even scarcer with the signature of Penzler. This is a special edition brought out as part of the American Mystery Classics. The founding novel by the founding father of American noir returns to print. Woolrich (1903-1968) kicked off his Black series with this dark 1940 fantasy about a woman who targets five men for death for reasons that would be teasingly obscure if it weren't for the title. Following the rule that "the really clever woman is all things to all men. Like the chameleon, she takes her coloring from his ideal of her," Julie Killeen studies each of her targets at her leisure, discovers what they're looking for in a woman, and then assumes that role. . . . The pattern behind her crimes is so stark, simple, and compelling that Woolrich couldn't resist reprising it in Rendezvous in Black (1948), which readers may want to seek out if they're still able to sleep after gulping this nightmare down. A point-by-point inversion of romantic idealism that's still memorably disturbing 80 years on. Smart protected jacket. NEW & UNREAD.
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Dark Melody of Madness; Deadline at Dawn; I Married a Dead Man; Phantom Lady; Speak to Me of Death; Stories to be Whispered; Black Alibi; The Black Angel; The Black Curtain; The Black Path of Fear; Rendezvous in Black; The Bride Wore Black; Walls That Hear You; Waltz Into Darkness
Dark Melody of Madness; Deadline at Dawn; I Married a Dead Man; Phantom Lady; Speak to Me of Death; Stories to be Whispered; Black Alibi; The Black Angel; The Black Curtain; The Black Path of Fear; Rendezvous in Black; The Bride Wore Black; Walls That Hear You; Waltz Into Darkness
Woolrich, Cornell; Pronzini, Bill; Swierczynski, Duane; Gorman, Ed; Malzberg, Barry N.; Renzi, Thomas C.; Dziemianowicz, Stefan; Pelan, John; Burns, Rex; Seabrook, Jack; Hjortsberg, William; Nolan, William F.; Nevins, Francis M.
- Publisher: The Centipede Press, Lakewood, CO
- Date published: 2012
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781613470237
First edition thus, fourteen volume hardcover set, all books are marked as limited no. 17/300, signed by the author of their introduction, as well as by the artists Mahurin & McMurray on their limitation page, and have a ribbon place holder with a color top edge treatment. The books each have a slight skew or lean to their binding, and slight bumps to their spine ends, while just a few of the volumes also have a touch of rubbing to their cloth, or some light smudging to the edges of their text block. The Black Angel has light bumps to its cover corners, and there is a small gap starting between text block and case at the head of the spine of Walls that Hear You. Overall, this is a solid, tight and bright, Very Good+ set in Near Fine dust jackets, most of which have some mild creasing to their corners, while Dark Melody of Madness also has a shallow peel to the head of its front hinge. The jackets are wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request. Higher shipping rates may apply. ISBNs - 9781613470237 (DMM, 2012); 9781613470206 (DD, 2012); 9781613470220 (IMDM, 2012); 9781613470213 (PL, 2012); 9781613470244 (SMD, 2012); 9781613471517 (SW, 2016); 9781613471463 (BA, 2016); 9781613471494 (TBA, 2016); 9781613471470 (TBC, 2016); 9781613471487 (TBPF, 2016); 9781613471500 (RB, 2016); 9781613471456 (TBWB, 2016); 9781613472446 (WTHY, 2021); 9781613472446 (WD, 2021).
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THE BRIDE WORE BLACK - FIRST "BLACK" BOOK, INSCRIBED BY WOOLRICH TO HIS AUNT
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK - FIRST "BLACK" BOOK, INSCRIBED BY WOOLRICH TO HIS AUNT
Woolrich, Cornell
- Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster
- Date published: 1940
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition bound in gilt-stamped full black leather, with raised bands and gilt page edges. A fine association copy, warmly inscribed by Woolrich to his Aunt Lil on the front free endpaper: "To my darling / aunt Lil / with all my love, / Cornell / New Year's, 1941." The recipient was Woolrich s mother's sister, Lillian Tarler MacBain, who lived with Woolrich in New York City during the 1920s. Woolrich was one of two witnesses at the wedding of her son, Cornell's cousin Archie (who was 12 years his junior), to a waitress named Dorothy Lynch in 1938. Woolrich's first mystery, and first "black" book, which was the basis for the 1968 film La mariée était en noir directed by François Truffaut and starring Jeanne Moreau. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A fine copy.
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