THE BRIDE WORE BLACK

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by 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 colour and black and white plates by Matt Mahurin throghout. Colour facsimiles of previous hardcover and paperback editions and of the 1968 film adaptation posters, 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 original dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 198 and signed by the illustrators Matt Mahurin and Jacob McMurray in black ink on the colophon. 'The Black Angel' was first published in 1940 by Simon & Schuster, New York. The novel was the basis for the 1968 pyschological thriller film of the same name, directed by François Truffaut, and starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Charles Denner. Truffaut's film adaptation of the novel was famously identified as a key influence on the plot of the iconic 'Kill Bill' films by Quentin Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman. 'The Bride Wore Black' 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 Black Path of Fear', and 'Rendezvous in Black'.