Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
WOOLRICH, CORNELL. The Black Angel. The Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, New York, 1943.
Price: US$29.92 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Spine slightly cocked, cloth abraided on spine and around edges of boards, worn at head and heel of spine and corners, rubbed along edges, small spot cloth missing at hinge of front board, ex-libirs stamp and large (half of page) deep abrasion to front pastedown, same abrasion on rear pastedown.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Woolrich, Cornell. The Black Angel. The Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, New York, 1943.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Stated first edition. Spine mottled/shallow pitting, lettering still easily read. Otherwise solid Good or better.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Cornell Woolrich. THE BLACK ANGEL. The Crime Club - Doubleday Doran, 1943.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publishers black cloth with some staining, damp mark to endpapers only, GOOD in a new facsimile dust wrapper.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Black Angel. Doubleday Crime Club, 1943.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated 1st edition. Slight discoloration to cloth. Bookplate. A solid copy. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. THE BLACK ANGEL. Doubleday, Doran & Company / The Crime Club, New York, 1943.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front panel; 300pp. Spine ends gently nudged, lower right corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a tiny, barely-discernable stamp from an Argentine bookshop on lower rear endpaper; clean throughout, Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped, rubbed and worn overall, with several tears, some splitting starting along joints, with a triangular chip at lower left corner of rear panel; the most obvious flaw is the swath of adhesive residue on the verso of both flaps - evidence the jacket was clearly removed from another copy, and supplied to the present one; Good. Woolrich's fifth "Black" book, basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, Peter Lorre, and June Vincent.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. The basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 294. Some tanning to endpapers, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips, some shallow loss at spine ends and thin paper backing on the unprinted inner surface. The publisher's $2.00 printed price is intact on front flap. (17184)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. THE BLACK ANGEL. Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Garden City, 1943.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 294. Some tanning to endpapers, a very good copy in good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips, some shallow loss at spine ends and thin paper backing on the unprinted inner surface. The publisher's $2.00 printed price is intact on front flap. (#152484)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$720.00 + shipping
Description: A few small traces of tape on back end papers. Top edge of text block a little dust darkened. Overall a very nice copy. Dust jacket sturdy but frayed at top and bottom of spine and some slight fraying on top edge of front panel. Overall a very presentable jacket. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards stamped in white. 300 pp
Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, CORNELL.. THE BLACK ANGEL.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943., Garden City, 1943.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Near fine in dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, with minor offsetting to the front and rear pastedown sheets adjacent to the spine hinge, and dust jacket shows light rubbing to spine ends with one small [1/2"] closed tear to top edge of front panel. The basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, Broderick Crawford, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. When beautiful singer Mavis Marlowe is found murdered in her apartment, her ex-lover and latest blackmail victim, Kirk Bennett is arrested and tried for her murder. When Bennett is found guilty and is sentenced to death, his long-suffering wife, Katherine, starts looking for answers of her own. Katherine seeks out Martin Blair (Dan Duryea), the husband of the victim, and together they try to solve the crime. Crime Club title.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, CORNELL.. THE BLACK ANGEL.. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943., Garden City, 1943.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Some offsetting to the front and rear endpapers, former owner's neat, small name stamp at bottom of the copyright page, binder's flaw to the bottom of title page and two other pages, else fine in dust jacket, with some minor professional restoration to spine ends and corners. The basis for the 1946 film noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. When beautiful singer Mavis Marlowe is found murdered in her apartment, her ex-lover and latest blackmail victim, Kirk Bennett is arrested and tried for her murder. When Bennett is found guilty and is sentenced to death, his long-suffering wife, Katherine, starts looking for answers of her own. Katherine seeks out Martin Blair (Dan Duryea), the husband of the victim, and together they try to solve the crime. Crime Club mystery.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.