Queen Ellery Editor Cornell Woolrich (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good minus. First Edition, first printing. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 217 pages, black cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear but a slight cant to the spine, paper cream white; binding tight, but slight soiling to the fore-edges. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price present.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. First publication of "Momentum," a Woolrich story, with cover art by George Salter. 12mo, perfect bound illustrated and printed wrappers, 144pp. A clean, bright, unmarked copy with the usual pulp paper tanning.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 304 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and some creasing on the spine; slightly wrinkled along the edges of the last few pages. This anthology contains: It Only Takes a Minute to Die by Cornell Woolrich; The Greyling Crescent Tragedy by John Creasey; Life in Our Time by Robert Bloch; Inspector Maigret Deduces by Georges Simenon; The Splintered Monday by Charlotte Armstrong; Death of the Sun by Michael Innes; If You See This Woman by Dolores Hitchens; Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl by Stanley Ellin; Sleep Is the Enemy by Anthony Gilbert; In Compartment 813 by Arthur Porges; The Inner Voices by Jean Potts; The Adventure of the Widow's Weeds by Robert L. Fish; Dr Coffee and the Philanderer's Brain by Lawrence G. Blochman; The Seasons Come, the Seasons Go by Fletcher Flora; Jericho and the Nuisance Clue by Hugh Pentecost; The Simpcox Miracle by William Shakespeare; Good Neighbor by Ursula Curtis; The hkzmp gsv bzmp Case by James Cross; The Game's the Thing by Holly Roth; Mom Sings an Aria by James Yaffe; M As in Mugged by Lawrence Treat; and The Friends of Hector Jouvet - best first story of the year - by James Powell. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. (x) 579 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; book plate on the front pastedown; no other interior markings. Dj art by Hector Garrido. Edited with Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. This anthology contains: The Good Samaritan by Isaac Asimov; Mom Sings an Aria by James Yaffe; The Woman I Envied by George Baxt; New York Blues by Cornell Woolrich; Small Homicide by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter); The Gentleman from Paris by John Dickson Carr; The Lord of Central Park by Avram Davidson; A Craving for Originality by Bill Pronzini; The Day of the Bullet by Stanley Ellin; The Crime of the Century by R. L. Stevens; The Back Stairway by Hal Ellson; The Hawk and the Dome of Hell by S. S. Rafferty; The Beatings by Evan Hunter (Ed McBain); A Place of Her Own by Joyce Harrington; The Medical Finger by Ellery Queen; The Corpse in the Statue of Liberty by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich); The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; Jericho and the Cardboard Box by Hugh Pentecost; The Man Who Came Back by Edward D. Hoch; Hildegarde Withers is Back by Stuart Palmer; The Quality of Mercy by Eleazar Lipsky; Murder in One Scene by Q. Patrick; The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean; The Garrulous Garrity Grand Scam by Francis M. Nevins; and God Save the Mark: A Novel by Donald E. Westlake. The Missing Man by Katherine MacLean won the Nebula Award for best novella in 1971. Size: 8vo. Hector Garrido; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. First publication of Woolrich's "After-Dinner Story" and Queen's "The Blind Bullet." With a stunning original cover illustration and design by Salter. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Very light edgewear to cover, else a near fine copy.