Black Alibi (First Edition)

  • New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942
By Cornell Woolrich
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for Jacques Tourneur's 1943 film "The Leopard Man," one of the famed Val Lewton productions of the early 1940s.

Very Good in a Good to Very Good jacket. Book has a moderate lean, an owner name on the front endpaper, foxing to the bright red topstain, and a tide mark along the bottom edge of the front board. Jacket has a few small chips at the corners and spine ends, and is sigificantly rubbed and creased, with numerous cellotape repairs to the verso (see images).

The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 288.

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