Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
William Irish, Cornell Woolrich. Strangler's Serenade. Rinehart & Company January 1951, 1951.
Price: US$21.03 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: used hardcover copy lacking a dust jacket. book is very shelfworn and corners bumped. coversare scuffed and outer edge of page block somewhat dusty/discolored with age. Remnants of tape to covers and front endpapers, binding is intact and no marks to text.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that way that vacationing detectives invariably do. "What could be the connection between an quiet, elderly male boarder, an indolent, middle-aged toper, a dim-witted youth who lived on the beach and whistled Yankee Doodle over and over, and the town's wealthiest spinster?" (I dunno, but judging from that jacket blurb Woolrich was only about two characters short of a Harry Stephen Keeler plot.) [This is the Detective Book Club issue (unpriced jacket with a blurb for the Club on the rear panel), but NOTE that the imprint at the base of the jacket spine reads "Rinehart" (the trade publisher), even though the binding of the book itself is stamped "Black".]
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Irish, William (Cornell Woolrich). Strangler's Serenade. Rinehart & Company, Inc, New York, 1951.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 249pp. Boards. Front hinge weak, some edge wear, light foxing to endpapers. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Irish, William; (Cornell Woolrich). Strangler's Serenade (First Edition, 1951). Rinehart, 1951.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition of this later noir suspense novel by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish. Black cloth, 249 pages. No dust jacket. Has tanning of the page edges and endpapers as well as a bit of edge wear.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Inner Flap DJ Original Price Intact of $2.50 but theres Large Triangular Piece Out affecting some of the Description & light Tape Residue Top, Back inner Flap DJ light Small Scuff Mark, HBDJ, 1st edition, 1951, 1ST Printing, with R Colophon on Copyright page, X-LIBRARY Light Wear & Small Stamp Outer Bottom pages Edges, NO OTHER Library Markings, GOOD-/GOOD+ , AS-IS, LAST PG CLIPPED top right affects few Words of 2 Lines of Text at right side ONLY, DJ light Rub, wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Extremities edge of DJ Trimmed by 1/8 inch or LEss, Black Cloth cvr light cover crease Lettered in Yellow on Spine, 7 3/4" tall,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Irish, William (Cornell Woolrich). Strangler's Serenade. Rinehart & Company, 1951.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black cloth covered boards with yellow titles. End papers have toning to edge, very light mild toning to pages. Ghost of pencil erasure at top of FFEP. Jacket has light edge wear with extremely light chipping at top of spine. Several small closed tears down from top of rear panel. Rear panel has toning. Missing piece at top of inside rear flap fold. Both flap folds have 1/2 inch tape scar. Price has been awkwardly cut from top of front flap fold. A First Printing.
Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. [iv], 249 pp. Publisher's black cloth with yellow spine lettering. A Fine copy in a bright, unclipped example of the dust jacket, closed tears along inner and outer folds of back panel, intruding slightly into the spine panel horizontally, some associated creasing, else Near Fine; presents well in Mylar. A noir crime novel written by Cornell Woolrich under the pen name William Irish.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. A series of murders terrify a small town. Touch of rubbing to board edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, tiny closed tear to base front panel. Bookplate of noted collector Adrian Homer Goldstone to front paste-down. (18602)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. A series of murders terrify a small town. Touch of rubbing to board edges, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine price-clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, tiny closed tear to base front panel. Bookplate of noted collector Adrian Homer Goldstone to front paste-down. (#154572)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.