Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hopley, George (Cornell Woolrich). Fright. Rinehart, 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: lite edgewear, VG, 1st Edition
Seller: Canford Book Corral, Freeville, NY, U.S.A.
Hopley, George (pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich). Fright. NY: Rinehart & Company; (1950), 1950.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (publisher's colophon on copyright page), very good+ with no dust jacket. Black cloth is just slightly worn at foot of spine in two small spots. Tiny, barely discernable nick in the cloth at the top of the spine. A tight, square copy with no names or other marking in or on the book.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (price-clipped) [bottom of book shelfworn (thin paper covering of boards worn through at numerous points), bottom front corner lightly bumped; jacket edgeworn, some shallow chipping along top edge (no loss of text or graphics), various other small tears, etc. The second (and last) novel published by Woolrich under the "George Hopley" pseudonym, which actually derived from his full name, Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich. The action is set, rather unusually for Woolrich, in 1915.
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, Cornell as George Hopley. Fright. Rinehart and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good with tape shadows on both boards and endpapers, ink notation on the front endpaper, former owner's address label on the front pastedown, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hopley, George (pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich). Fright. NY: Rinehart & Company; (1950), 1950.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (publisher's colophon on copyright page), very good+ in a very good dust jacket. The page edges, especially at the foredge, and the endpapers, are a little darkened. There is faint offsetting of the title from the front flap of the jacket to the front endpaper. The black jacket has a little edgewear, with a tiny chip at the top of the spine. The second novel by Cornell Woolrich written under the pseudonym of George Hopley. $2.50 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Crime - Hopley, George (a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich). Fright. Rinehart and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 245 page suspense novel by the author of Night Has A Thousand Eyes. Bookplate to inside front pastedown. General light handling wear, but a solid very good copy overall in price-intact dustwrapper with some light staining to the dustwrapper flaps and verso. Presents quite well.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Hopley, George (pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich, Cornell). FRIGHT. Rinehart & Co., New York, 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, which has been internally repaired, two closed tears mended, spine ends internally re-enforced. (6467)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell, writing as "George Hopley.". FRIGHT. Rinehart, New York, 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket with internal mends to two closed tears and internal reinforcement to spine ends. (#83945)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Woolrich, Cornell ( Hopley, George ). FRIGHT. Rinehart, 1950.
Price: US$319.00 + shipping
Description: FRIGHT, Rinehart, 1950, first edition, near fine in vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Published under the George Hopley pseudonym.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WOOLRICH, CORNELL. Fright by George Hopley. New York Rinehart 1950, 1950.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small stains to a few interior pages, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and some rubbing to rear panel.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hopley, George (pseud. of Cornell Woolrich). FRIGHT. Rinehart and Company, Inc., New York, 1950.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in yellow and red on spine; dustjacket; 245pp. A few pinpoint rubs at spine ends, with a hint of offset to front endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with a few pinpoint rubs to extremities and two tiny tears along upper edge of front wrapper; very Near Fine - about the best we've seen for this title. Perhaps the best of the author's late-career novels, and certainly one of the most difficult to find in collectors condition. A typically unforgiving jacket in terms of showing wear poorly, this example is almost entirely unrubbed, and still retains the gloss on the uncoated paper.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Hopley, George [pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich]. Fright. Rinehart and Company, Inc, New York, 1950.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with light spine lean, light mustiness to pages, foxing to textblock edge and offsetting to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, with light edge wear, light rubbing and foxing. A groom murders his blackmailing mistress on his wedding day, then goes on the run with his new bride.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
HOPLEY, GEORGE.. FRIGHT.. Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1950]., New York, 1950.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's second book. Hopley writes using the pseudonyms of Cornell Woolrich and William Irish. Near fine copy in dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends and corners. A difficult title. Newly married Prescott Marshall takes his bride and leaves town . on his wedding day he'd left the bloody body of a blackmailer in his closet. Marshall embarks on a slow-motion cross-country escape, changing jobs suddenly and dragging his unaware and unhappy wife along as he tries to distance himself from his bloody deed. No matter how far he runs, his guilty conscience is right there, magnifying every knock on the door, every letter, every phone call.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.