Sell Your Cornell Woolrich The Bride Wore Black 1st Edition Signed for up to About $15,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders
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Cornell Woolrich The Bride Wore Black 1st Edition Signed
Cornell Woolrich was a novelist and short story author who was notorious for writing under other pen names and for his bestselling crime novels that were adapted into Hollywood films. Woolrich’s early writings were inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald but later turned in the direction of crime fiction works that have been compared to Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. His 1940 novel The Bride Wore Black was adapted into the the 1968 film by Truffaut.
Below is a recent realized price for a copy of Cornell Woolrich The Bride Wore Black 1st edition signed. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
Cornell Woolrich The Bride Wore Black 1st Edition Signed and Inscribed. Sold for roughly $15,000.
The following are some rare books we have sold:
Rare first edition, first printing of one of the most desired books in the history of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1925, with the nearly impossible to find first printing dustjacket. Every point is present: 1925 is printed on title page; Charles Scribner’s Sons logo appears on the copyright page with no subsequent printing statements; ”chatter” appears on page 60; ”northern” appears on page 119; ”it’s” is printed on line 16 of page 165; ”sick in tired” is found on page 205; ”Union Street station” is mistyped on line 7-8 of page 211. Bound in dark green cloth boards with title and author’s name blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Francis Cugat’s scarce original unrestored first printing dustjacket has the lowercase ”j” in ”jay Gatsby” on the back panel hand-corrected in ink. Sold for $50,000.
Thomas Pynchon first edition, first printing of his masterpiece, ”Gravity’s Rainbow,” inscribed and signed by Pynchon on the half-title page, ”10/86 / To Michael Urban, / Best Wishes, / Thomas Pynchon.” Published by Viking: New York: 1973. Original pictorial dustjacket with minor creasing to the jacket spine, else a gorgeous copy. Publisher’s red-orange cloth with dark red spine titles and an arch design blind-stamped on the front cover. Top edge stained red. In near fine condition. Accompanied by COA from PSA/DNA. Sold for $21,013.
Scarce Signed Copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby”
Coveted signed copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece novel, ”The Great Gatsby.” Modern Library: New York, 1934, which included the first appearance of the author’s new introduction. Signed and inscribed by Fitzgerald to actor Ned Griffith: ”For Ned Griffith / from his friend / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Hollywood 1939”. Fitzgerald’s new introduction to ”Gatsby” reads in part: ”…I think it is an honest book, that is to say, that one used none of one’s virtuosity to get an effect, and, to boast again, one soft-pedalled the emotional side to avoid the tears leaking from the socket of the left eye…” In original publisher’s blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, though sun-faded in spots. The Modern Library torchbearer emblem is stamped in gilt on front board and the endpapers are printed in orange. With a ”Stanley Rose Bookshop” ticket affixed to rear pastedown. Lower corner of front board is bumped and a tiny .25” hole appears to lower corner of front free endpaper; overall, book is in very good condition. Includes original dustjacket in fair condition, with price clipped, significant chips and some paper loss. An incredibly rare signed copy of Fitzgerald’s great novel, with a still bold inscription and signature. Sold for $9,375.
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Hammett’s “The Thin Man” Inscribed 1st Edition
Scarce signed and inscribed copy of “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1934. First edition, first printing with red variant dust jacket with front flap reviews. Boldly inscribed, “For Dan and Peggy / with my best regards / Dashiell Hammett / New York / Sept. 23, 1934.” A rare copy of Hammett’s hardboiled detective novel which became the basis for the successful film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Minor fading and soiling to decorative green cloth boards (oxidation of green dye that was used in first edition printings has resulted in light green cloth boards). Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket. Overall, very good condition. Sold for $9,600.
HP Lovecraft First Edition of “The Outsider and Others”
Rare HP Lovecraft first edition of “The Outsider and Others” as well as the first book published by Arkham House in 1939 (in Sauk City, WI). Limited to 1,200 copies, this first edition of “Outsider” remains a cornerstone of horror fantasy; of Lovecraft, Stephen King has written, he’s “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” Book is in near fine condition with bright gold titling to the midnight black boards and an immaculate interior. Housed in the first edition dustjacket, which shows the original $5.00 price. Dustjacket is in very good condition with chipping along the spine and three archivally repaired tears. Overall, a very attractive copy of the book which spins eerily fantastical tales. Desirable HP Lovecraft first edition. Sold for $2,819.48.
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