Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST EDITION. A Fair copy, lacking jacket. Blue cloth worn along edges, bookplate on paste down, spine dulled.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition. Good+ gilt-stamped blue cloth; light general soiling to boards; two inch white stain to back board; top front corner bumped; slight fraying to corners; spine slightly faded; softening and fraying to spine ends; internally clean; binding tight. Overall a nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. viii, 312 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Good+ with some light staining to fore edge and on pgs. 98 and 99, wear to paste down where jacket flap was once adhered, spine a bit cocked, wear at tips, rear hinge repaired. In Good dust jacket, small damp stain on spine panel, rubbed, creased, and chipped at edges, missing a thin piece along top edge of back panel, damage to verso of front flap, but intact, showing the skull bride design. An Inner Sanctum Mystery.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cornell Woolrich. The Bride Wore Black.. Simon & Schuster, 1940.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Bride Wore Black" by Cornell Woolrich. Simon & Schuster, NY. 1940 first American edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth. Library stamp to ffep, with original dust jacket (laminated, inner flaps affixed to pastedowns). Rare first printing of author's first suspense novel, and his most famous work.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Advance reading copy of the first edition. Self-bound in the iconic skeleton bride-illustrated dust jacket. Very Good. Wraps worn. Spine creased, somewhat cocked, slight loss at head with a small tear to rear joint. The basis of Fracois Truffaut's 1968 film La Mariee etait en noir. Extremely scarce in this format.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (21cm); royal blue cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; viii,[2],3-312pp. Spine ends gently nudged, light wear to extremities, with lower rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp); a fresh, Near Fine copy, without the usual heavy discoloration to cloth, and with the gilt still quite bright. Dustjacket flaps are machine-clipped and unpriced (apparently as issued), lightly shelfworn, with a few small stains on verso, a small chip at crown, and several short tears - a few of them tape-mended on verso; an unrestored, Very Good+ example. The author's first full-length work of crime fiction, the first of his "Black" novels, and his first deep foray into the revenge narrative he would craft so expertly throughout his career. "Julie Killeen's husband is killed on the church steps moments after their marriage; and in a ritual substitution of deathmaking for lovemaking, she devotes the rest of her life to tracking down and systematically murdering the drunk driver and his four cronies whom she holds responsible" (Pronzini & Muller, p.860). A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis for François Truffaut's 1968 film of the same name, starring Jeanne Moreau as the avenging Bride. Hubin, p.434.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION published by Simon and Schuster with the 1940 date printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL sophisticated price clipped dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO pieces missing. The book is in wonderful shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Cornell Woolrich. The Bride Wore Black. Simon & Schuster, USA, 1940.
Price: US$5131.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich First Edition Simon & Schuster 1940. No inscriptions, no foxing or toning, top edge blue tint still present and bold. Covers are VG+ and spine is unfaded. In like original, bright first state dust jacket. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
WOOLRICH, CORNELL. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Simon and Schuster, 1940., New York, 1940.
Price: US$5950.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Light wear to cloth at spine ends and extremities, light to minor soiling to a few pages, else a very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the foot of the spine. A Haycraft/Queen cornerstone title and the basis for the Francois Truffaut film with the same name. No one knew who she was, where she came from, or why she had entered their lives. All they knew about her was that she was beautiful and that each time she appeared, a man died a horrible death! An attractive copy of an important book.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, CORNELL.. The Bride Wore Black. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Some cloth spotting and wear; ink date and number on the front free endpaper; a very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear and tear. Woolrich's first suspense novel, an inspiration for film noir, and the basis for a Francois Truffaut film. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Bride Wore Black. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with minor repair. The book is in excellent shape and is bound in the publisher's blue cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition bound in gilt-stamped full black leather, with raised bands and gilt page edges. A fine association copy, warmly inscribed by Woolrich to his Aunt Lil on the front free endpaper: "To my darling / aunt Lil / with all my love, / Cornell / New Year's, 1941." The recipient was Woolrich s mother's sister, Lillian Tarler MacBain, who lived with Woolrich in New York City during the 1920s. Woolrich was one of two witnesses at the wedding of her son, Cornell's cousin Archie (who was 12 years his junior), to a waitress named Dorothy Lynch in 1938. Woolrich's first mystery, and first "black" book, which was the basis for the 1968 film La mariée était en noir directed by François Truffaut and starring Jeanne Moreau. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A fine copy.
Seller: Clouds Hill Books, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.