Irish William Pseud of Cornell Woolrich (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd printing. (no dust jacket) [solid copy with moderate overall wear, some fading to spine cloth; ffep torn out, which has left the front hinge exposed but not separated]. Irish/Woolrich classic, which starts out with both a great dedication ("To Apartment 605, Hotel M----- / in unmitigated thankfulness (at not being in it any more") and a terrific first chapter title ("The Hundred and Fiftieth Day Before the Execution"). A terrific yarn, and the basis for the highly-regarded 1944 movie of the same name, directed by Robert Siodmak and produced by Joan Harrison, who cut her teeth as an assistant/screenwriter to Alfred Hitchcock, and subsequently returned to his fold as producer of his 1955-1965 TV series ( for which she continued to mine the rich vein of Woolrich story material). NOISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) "Feder" (illustrator). Book Club Edition. [light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that way that vacationing detectives invariably do. "What could be the connection between an quiet, elderly male boarder, an indolent, middle-aged toper, a dim-witted youth who lived on the beach and whistled Yankee Doodle over and over, and the town's wealthiest spinster?" (I dunno, but judging from that jacket blurb Woolrich was only about two characters short of a Harry Stephen Keeler plot.) [This is the Detective Book Club issue (unpriced jacket with a blurb for the Club on the rear panel), but NOTE that the imprint at the base of the jacket spine reads "Rinehart" (the trade publisher), even though the binding of the book itself is stamped "Black".].

First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; teal edge-staining; [6],7-191,[1]pp. Light wear and rubbing to extremities, a few faint creases, and some subtle fading to text edges; Very Good or better. Suspenseful novel centered around a woman who unknowingly marries a serial killer who killed six wives before her. HUBIN, p.221.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Tower Books Motion Picture edition. Gifter's inscription on flyleaf. (detective and mystery fiction, photoplay editions).

First Edition. Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial wrappers; 128pp. Modest wear, some creasing to wrappers, tanning to text edges, with a few dog-eared preliminary pages, and a few tears at gutter to title/copyright page; Very Good only. A collection of six pulp stories, including "If I Should Die Before I Wake," "I'll Never Play Detective Again," "Change of Murder," "A Death Is Caused," "Two Murders, One Crime," and "The Man Upstairs." HUBIN, p.221.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in purple on spine and front cover; dark red topstain; [ii],[6],7-310,[8]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to extremities; contents clean; Near Fine, lacking the dustjacket. Basis for François Truffaut's 1969 film Mississippi Mermaid. HUBIN, p.221.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Irish, William (pseud. of Cornell Woolrich). THE DANCING DETECTIVE. NY: Popular Library #309, (1951). A Near Fine, square, bright, tight (likely unread) copy. Despite the subtle trace of a reading crease, and some teeny blemishes, the best example of this paperback we've seen during a decade of seeking and selling Woolrich paperbacks.

First Edition. A paperback original novel. Slim octavo (16.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [64]pp. Trivial wear along spine-fold, subtle tanning to text edges, with faint previous owners name on upper margin of title page; Near Fine. First separate edition of this novella, originally published in 1939 by Detective Story Magazine. Issued as No.26 in the short-lived Dell Ten Cent series, with cover art by Robert Stanley.

First Edition. Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial wrappers; 123,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, p.7/8 neatly detached but present, with a preliminary leaf between copyright page and p.7 lacking (story begins on p.7, with no loss of continuity to text); Very Good. A collection of four pulp stories, including "Borrowed Crime," "The Cape Triangular," "Detective William Brown," and "Chance." HUBIN, p.221.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards (HB) in black cloth. In very good condition with some light edge wear to spine and corners. One page corner fold and 3 pages in the middle have a small fold and half inch seperation at top of page at spine. This in no way affects any of the body of the book. A collection of 7 short murder and suspense stories: ?Eyes That Watch You?, ?Stuck?, ?Charlie Won?t be Home Tonight?, ?Murder With a U?, ?All at Once, No Alice?, ?Damned Clever, These Americans?, and Flat Tire. The underrated master of noir, whose stories have been filmed in classic black and white movies. 247 pages.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, clipped and with price-sticker of 5/. VG+; VG+. A very good first UK edition of this collection of seven tales by William Irish, a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich, in striking stylised jacket reflecting the pugilistic title story. Rare.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown boards. Dust-jacket, clipped and with 6/ price-sticker to inside front flap. VG+; jacket clipped and slightly rubbed at edges. Jacket artwork by Kenneth Lockwood. A nice first UK edition of this collection of crime tales by Irish, a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich. The collection includes one of his best short stories, 'Fire Escape', subsequently titled 'The Boy Who Cried Murder'. Rare.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 9/6. Book VG; jacket somewhat frayed and chipped at edges. A further collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America winner William Irish, a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich. Scarce.

First edition. 8vo. Original teal cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50. A collection of six stories by Woolrich under his well-known pseudonym 'William Irish'. The title story was the basis for the 1952 film Don't Ever Open That Door. A very good copy, in very good dust-jacket.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00. An enigmatic woman, a hat like a pumpkin, and a murdered wife - things aren't looking good for Scott Henderson in this gripping mystery thriller by Woolrich writing as William Irish. Cloth slightly sunned at head of spine; jacket with edge wear, slight loss to head of spine, otherwise very good.