Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 4,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
WOOLRICH, CORNELL. The Bride Wore Black. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth, slight lean, mottling to joints and spine; dust jacket, corners clipped, spine panel foot rubbed with associated creasing, small corner nicks, light rubbing, price sticker on bottom of front flap; ownership signature to front flyleaf. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940

Additional Details

first edition in unrestored jacket of the author's first novel of suspense. Basis for the later Francois Truffaut film. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.