RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the author of the introduction and the illustrators. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in silver to the spine, with colour illustration by Matt Mahurin to the upper board. In the Matt Mahurin illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. Black silk bookmark. Illustrated endpapers and with colour and black and white plates by Matt Mahurin throughout. Colour facsimiles of previous hardcover and paperback editions, together with a black and white photograph of the author Cornell Woolrich at the front. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 205 and signed by the illustrators Matt Mahurin and Jacob McMurray and by the author of the introduction William F. Nolan in black ink on the colophon. 'Rendezvous in Black' was first published in 1948 by Rinehart & Company, New York. One of six volumes included in the Cornell Woolrich 'Black' series released by Centipede Press in 2015. Other books in this series are: 'Black Alibi', 'The Black Angel', 'The Black Curtain', 'The Black Path of Fear', and 'The Bride Wore Black'.