Phantom Lady [Triple SIGNED Limited Edition - #298 / 300. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Centipede Press, Lakewood, CO, 2012
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Peryton Books, Saskatoon, SK, CanadaPeryton Books
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Condition: Used - As new
US$ 300.00
Item description from seller
A Signed Limited Edition by Centipede Press. This is #298 of 300 copies for sale. A Fine As New copy in a Fine As New dust jacket. Limitation page is at the back of the book. First Edition thus. Limited to 300 copies for sale. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Several reprints of old Cornell Woolrich Deadline at Dawn covers, all in full colour. All copies signed by Barry N. Malzberg, Matt Mahurin, and Jacob McMurray. Sewn binding, rounded back, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed endpapers, top-edge stain, and other extras. PLEASE SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS for more books in this series. ROBUST SHIPPING.
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- Title
- Phantom Lady [Triple SIGNED Limited Edition - #298 / 300
- Author
- Woolrich, Cornell
- Publisher
- Centipede Press, Lakewood, CO
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Illustrator(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1613470215
- ISBN 13
- 9781613470213
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
Phantom Lady is Cornell Woolrich at his best: a "wrong man" thriller compounded with a ticking clock (his execution) as well as shadowy femme fatales. In this new edition, Barry N. Malzberg, who was Woolrich's agent in the 1960s, and one of perhaps only two literary figures still living that knew Woolrich, provides a fascinating account of the man.
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Review
Take Phantom Lady, the first book under that pseudonym. Now, the idea is commonplace. You've read a dozen books and seen a hundred movies with the same plot idea, but this is where it began.
A condemned man, due to be executed for a crime he didn't commit, watches and feels the weeks and days and hours slip away as the moment of his execution approaches.
In case anyone reading the book doesn't quite get it, doesn't quite understand what it means to be able to count the hours before certain death, Irish begins each chapter with a time check. The first chapter is headed: "The Hundred and Fiftieth Day Before the Execution." Chapters 16, 17, and 18 state "The Eighth Day Before the Execution," "The Seventh," and "The Sixth." There are no other words in those chapters because nothing happens. But Scott Henderson is in jail and, so help me, the reader by now feels nearly the same tension that the poor guy must have been feeling. He didn't kill his wife, and he knows he didn't, and we know he didn't, but no one else knows. Oh, yes, one other person knows. The killer knows.
If you can't stand the suspense, don't read this book. If not knowing what is going to happen next, or in the end, makes you too tense, don't read this book. You won't be able to stand it. --Otto Penzler
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