If I Should Die Before I Wake. And Other Stories.

WILLIAM IRISH

Publication: Avon Book Company, 1945, New York

First edition. Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. A digest-sized paperback original. Murder Mystery Monthly 31. Page edges uniformly tanned else fine in pictorial wrappers. Contains six short stories, If I Should Die Before I Wake, I'll Never Play Detective Again, Change of Murder, A Death Is Caused, Two Murders, One Crime, and The Man Upstairs. This edition is the true first and is not to be confused with the reprint of the following year, which is a normal-sized paperback.

Inventory Number: 36806