THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR

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 203 and signed by the illustrators Matt Mahurin and Jacob McMurray and by the author of the introduction William Hjortsberg in black ink on the colophon. 'The Black Path of Fear' was first published in 1944 by Doubleday Books, New York, and was the basis for the 1946 film noir 'The Chase', directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Cummings, Steve Cochran, and Michèle Morgan. 'The Black Path of Fear' 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 Black Angel', 'The Black Curtain', 'The Bride Wore Black', and 'Rendezvous in Black'.