Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial wrappers; 128pp. Modest wear, some creasing to wrappers, tanning to text edges, with a few dog-eared preliminary pages, and a few tears at gutter to title/copyright page; Very Good only. A collection of six pulp stories, including "If I Should Die Before I Wake," "I'll Never Play Detective Again," "Change of Murder," "A Death Is Caused," "Two Murders, One Crime," and "The Man Upstairs." HUBIN, p.221.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Digest size softcover. Murder Mystery Monthly No. 31, 1945. First edition. Six short stories; 128 pages. Advertising for other titles on both panels of the rear cover. Paper toned as usual. Cover shows light creasing, slight edgewear, tiny surface chip at the head of the spine. Clean, tight and unmarked, and fitted with a mylar sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Friendly Used Books, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
William Irish. IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE and Other Stories. Avon Book Company, New York, 1945.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 128p. A softcover book in good+ condition. Small closed tears at head and foot of spine; top tear has been repaired with a piece of tape. Previous seller's price handwritten in top left corner of front cover. Edges rubbed and covers creased. Pages deeply tanned and slightly brittle with age. Light dampstaining in top margin of last several leaves. The binding is tight. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #31. "William Irish" was the pseudonym of American author Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968).
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
William Irish. If I should Die Before I Wake. Avon Books, New York, 1945.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: If I should Die Before I Wake by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich). First paperback edition (Murder Mystery Monthly No. 31.) Publisher: Avon Books, New York, (1945). 128 pages. Wrappers in very good plus to near fine condition. Contents clean, paper toned with age. Protected in Mylar sleeve. Inventory #19-066. Price: $125.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. A digest-sized paperback original. Murder Mystery Monthly 31. Lightly rubbed at spine ends, and with light fold crease to front panel, else near fine in pictorial wrappers. Contains six short stories, If I Should Die Before I Wake, I'll Never Play Detective Again, Change of Murder, A Death Is Caused, Two Murders, One Crime, and The Man Upstairs. This edition is the true first and is not to be confused with the reprint of the following year, which is a normal-sized paperback.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #31. Paperback original, digest size. Collects six stories. Darkening to text block, near fine in wrappers, slight rubbing to edges, light rubbing to head and heel of spine panel. Front cover quite bright, an attractive copy. (6654)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. A digest-sized paperback original. Murder Mystery Monthly 31. Page edges uniformly tanned else fine in pictorial wrappers. Contains six short stories, If I Should Die Before I Wake, I'll Never Play Detective Again, Change of Murder, A Death Is Caused, Two Murders, One Crime, and The Man Upstairs. This edition is the true first and is not to be confused with the reprint of the following year, which is a normal-sized paperback.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.