Search Results: the phantom lady by irish william cornell

graphic book, , (Reprints Pocket 253), . 108, reading copy ,poor hardboiled mystery, paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1944), . 253, Reading Copy, ,poor hardboiled mystery, paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1944), . 253, very good , hardboiled mystery, paperback,

graphic book, , (Reprints Pocket 253), . 108, very good , faint creases, rubbing hardboiled mystery, paperback,

graphic book, , (Reprints Pocket 253), . 108, very good , store stamp inside, faint corner inside damp mark hardboiled mystery, paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1944), . 253, very good +, hardboiled mystery, paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1944), . 253, very good -fine, reading crease hardboiled mystery, paperback,

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1944]. First paperback edition. A fine copy, small rub to upper front left corner, slight color fade to spine, appears unread. (12053). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pocket #253.

Paris: Fournier-Valdes, [1948]. First French edition. Brown wrappers with a colorful dust wrapper. The book is near fine, the dust wrapper is very good, some tape repair to verso, some rubbing and creasing, chip to head of spine panel, slight chipping along bottom edge. (12063). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Softcover. First French edition of The Phantom Lady.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel, written under the pseudonym William Irish, made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir, and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel, written in 1942, about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison, a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca," "Foreign Correspondent") and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.