THE BLACK ANGEL

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 and of the 1946 film adaptation poster, 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 253 and signed by the illustrators Matt Mahurin and Jacob McMurray and the author of the introduction Rex Burns in black ink on the colophon. 'The Black Angel' was first published in 1943 by Doubleday Books, New York. The novel was the basis for the 1946 film noir of the same name, directed by Roy William Neill in his final feature film, and starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre. 'The Black Angel' is 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 Bride Wore Black', 'The Black Curtain', 'The Black Path of Fear', and 'Rendezvous in Black'.