Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bottom corners lightly bumped. DJ missing.
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: (no dust jacket) [ex-lending library book (label and various stamps on front pastedown), heavily worn (especially at bottom corners), hinges tender although not cracked; should be considered a READING COPY only]. Dark suspense yarn set in Havana. Filmed, somewhat, as a B-noir (THE CHASE) in 1946, with uninspired direction (by Arthur Ripley) and Bob Cummings (who was no Bob Mitchum) in the lead. Too bad this copy isn't prettier, but I can't help that. If you're so inclined, you could dress it up with a facsimile dust jacket, and as long as it stayed on the shelf nobody would be the wiser.
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Cornell Woolrich. The Black Path of Fear. Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1944.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition with dust jacket. Jacket in protective plastic; heavy edge wear but clean. Very nice, clean condition inside.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 8 inches tall) 183 pages. Description: Dust jacket art by Zaccone. This bears the ''First Edition'' statement on the copyright page and a 1944 date on the title page. A wartime edition, with a wartime compliance statement on the synopsis page, and a Buy Bonds ad on the rear flap of the jacket, and a mailing label at bottom so readers could ship the book to the U.S.O. Library for a serviceman. A Crime Club selection in their ''Character and Atmosphere'' category. BINDING/CONDITION: light greenish-gray cloth; the cloth is browned and rubbed at the spine ends, no markings, the hinges are sound, the outside edges of the text block are age darkened, the inner pages show no sign of toning; a Good book, with a Poor dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The front panel is largely intact, with good color, a piece missing from the bottom spine about one by two inches, large piece missing from the top spine/rear panel: about three by three inches. ISBN: B000P7KD28
Seller: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$253.48 + shipping
Description: Edizione: Prima edizione . Pagine: 184 . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Cartonato telato grigio con scritte nere . Stato: Discreto . Caratteristiche: Bruniture.Raro . Collana: Crime club selection .
Seller: Libreria Scripta Manent, ALBENGA, SV, Italy
WOOLRICH, CORNELL.. The Black Path of Fear. Doubleday Doran & Co: Crime Club, 1944.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed., 12mo, In publisher's gray cloth. Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring Robert Cummings and Peter Lorre. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 296. A very good copy; clean and tight with no damage other than very light rubbing to lower corners and a small rectangle of paper/glue residue on ffep possibly from a prior bookplate removal. [1/2x1] Dust jacket is fair only; not price-clipped but with significant chipping to edges and corners and 1 closed tear at bottom of spine.
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR. Doubleday, Doran and Co. , Inc., Garden City, 1944.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Previous owner's gift inscription dated July 28, 1944 on the front inside cover. The rear cover has creases at the top and bottom corners. The dust jacket is missing a piece (3/4 x 1/4") at the top of the rear cover nearest the spine panel. The jacket has closed tears, chipping at the corners, creasing and rubbing. Very good condition in good + dust jacket. A Crime Club Selection." ; The Crime Club; 8vo.; 183 pages
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. The Black Path of Fear. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, 1944.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of an uncommon wartime ' Black ' mystery from Woolrich. Published by Doubleday and Doran in 1944. In publisher's gray cloth. A near fine example of the book with a touch of toning tp the spine ends ( corresponding to the chips at the ends of the jacket's spine ). Dust jacket very good with some edgewear, wear at the folds and a couple of edge tears. Light chips to the head of the spine. There is a larger, fingernail sized, chip at the base of the spine which extends for an inch and a half onto the base of the rear panel. Pinhead perforation mid spine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring Robert Cummings and Peter Lorre. Hubin, p. 879. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 296. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips, 20 mm closed tear at lower spine end, and two tiny chips from rear spine fold. The publisher's $2.00 printed price is intact on front flap. (17183)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine, bright, clean copy in dust jacket with a tiny minor restoration at the foot of spine and with absolutely no fading to the red Crime Club logo on the spine panel. Murder sends a heartbroken man twisting and turning down the black path of fear. He is accused of a murder he didn't commit and his only proof of innocence is destroyed. A particularly nice copy of an uncommon book and a Crime Club mystery title. Basis for the 1946 United Artists film The Chase that starred Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, and a host of others. This is an exceptional copy.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.