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1945288076Lawrence E. Spivak Jonathan Press American Mercury Publications 1945. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Stated 'Jonathan Press Mystery No. J23' on the copyright page. Woolrich was a pulp novelist of the highest order particularly for his prodigious output as well as the amount of his material which was later turned to film. This murder mystery was adapted for the cinema in Jacques Tourneur's The Leopard Man 1943 the story of a serial killer who kills women with a feline claw. To quote from an online piece "the book is a masterly exercise in the orchestration of tension and suspense. Its unusual structure is punctuate with passages of breathtaking menace and dark poetry." Woolrich's work directly inspired one of cinema's earliest depictions of a realistic serial killer a proto-example of the Slasher genre. Originally published in 1943 this is an abridged reprint edition typical for pulp mystery novels. Slight chipping to the bottom corner of the first few leaves and front cover. Toning to the text and covers. Rippling and spots of surface loss to the spine and wear and slight creasing to the covers. http://cineaction.ca/issue71sample.htm~accessed using the Internet Archive; the Dec. 3 2009 capture. Very Good binding. Lawrence E. Spivak | Jonathan Press | American Mercury Publications unknown books
1927264294Boni & Liveright 1927. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Second Printing from October of 1927 the first was in July of that same year. Some light spotting to the boards but basically a clean and tight copy. Very Good binding. Boni & Liveright unknown books
1965288583New York: Walker and Company 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A most attractive copy of this collection of stories by Woolrich issued late in his life. There is some minor loss to the paper at the bottom edge of the boards near the tips. Otherwise a fresh and clean copy without marks. The dustjacket has a bit of rubbing near the bottom of the spine and a trace of wear to the spine extremities. It too is fresh and is not price-clipped. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Walker and Company unknown books
1946003052Philadelphia: Lippincott 1946. Cornell Woolrich. By William Irish pseudonym. The Dancing Detective. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1946. First edition. A Near Fine copy in original publisher's beige cloth spine lettered and stamped in dark blue. Original priced $2.00 dust jacket is very lightly worn with the usual light soil to the fragile back panel else Near Fine. A superior example of this title WITH : One page Typed Letter signed to Mr. Kenneth White of Popular Publications. New York: unpublished correspondence October 11 1945. Single leaf with Hotel Marseilles letterhead a typewritten letter hand-signed "Cornell" requesting copyright assignments for two of his stories: "LEG MAN" and "What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear" so that both could appear in THE DANCING DETECTIVE the latter under the title "FUR JACKET. Light folds tiny holes from previous stapling at upper left corner otherwise Near Fine with superior content related specifically to THE DANCING DETECTIVE. BOTH items formerly in the collection of Otto Penzler. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Lippincott Hardcover books
