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Woolrich, Cornell. Cover Charge. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No jacket. Blue boards with a cocked and bumped spine. Previous owner's inscription on the free end paper with a personal ex libris stamp on the same page. A couple of small stains on the back cover. Very good.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition of the author's first book. Fine, contemporary bookplate on front pastedown.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. COVER CHARGE. Boni & Liveright, 1926.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Description: COVER CHARGE, B & L, 1926, first edition, 2 tiny tears to the head of the spine, upper right corner tip of the front cover ever so gently bumped, else a vg+ copy in fine facsimile dust-wrapper of this, the authors first book.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell. Cover Charge. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 286pp; cloth. Author's first book. Tiny bookseller labels; some spots to endpapers; neat ownership signature; spine leaning slightly, very good without jacket
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell.. Cover Charge.. NY. Boni & Liveright. 1926., 1926.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with matching dates of 1926 and B&L Monogram. Woolrich's first novel. VG+ in green cloth stamped in gilt and red on the front boards and the spine. With heavy fading to the spine and fraying at the top and bottom edges. Small stain on rear panel. First Edition with matching dates of 1926 and B&L Monogram.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, Cornell. Cover Charge. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; dark green cloth, blocked and titled in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover; 286pp. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, gilt rubbed at base of spine, with some shelfwear and scuff marks to panels; small stains to margins on pages 9-15, a few terminal pages roughly opened; still a Very Good, sound copy. The author's first book, one of five F.Scott Fitzgerald-esque novels Woolrich would write before embarking on a career writing crime fiction.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Woolrich, Cornell. COVER CHARGE. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. A Fine, unblemished copy of the First Edition in original publisher's dark green cloth, spine and front board with panels painted red, lettered in gilt. In the original priced ($2.00) dust jacket, with a Jazz age design by Bobritsky. The Dust Jacket spine panel is just barely tanned with a minor nick at the base. There is an equally tiny nick to the rear panel. Apart from a little wear to the extremities and some faint soil, the Dust Jacket is bright, Near Fine and entirely unrestored. In short, a superior copy of an exceedingly rare book with only trivial blemishes. We have never seen a better example of the First Edition and doubt one exists. This, Cornell Woolrichs first book, was published when he was 22. Although, like most of his earliest works, it was heavily influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was the start of a career like few others. Woolrich is now considered the writer (along with Raymond Chandler) who founded and dominated the Film Noir genre as well as often being referred to as the Edgar Allen Poe of 20th century film, writing novels, novelettes, novellas and short stories that were adapted into at least 28 Films Noir including Rear Window The Bride Wore Black and Deadline At Dawn (although IMDb attributes an astonishing 110 adaptations to him with television included). And this is the First Edition that started it all. Publisher's original 1925 advertising pamphlet laid in. Provenance: Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction.
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.