WOOLRICH, CORNELL — The Doom Stone
New York, NY: Avon Books, 1960. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Avon Books #T-408, priced at 35cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. First Edition thus (? ) as a variant title of "The Eye of Doom". The book is in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a dip to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. "When he turned to pulp and detective fiction, Woolrich\'s output was so prolific his work was often published under one of his many pseudonyms. For example, "William Irish" was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine (February 1942) on his 1942 story "It Had to Be Murder", source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window and itself based on H. G. Wells\' short story "Through a Window". François Truffaut filmed Woolrich\'s The Bride Wore Black and Waltz into Darkness in 1968 and 1969, respectively, the latter as Mississippi Mermaid. Ownership of the copyright in Woolrich\'s original story "It Had to Be Murder" and its use for Rear Window was litigated before the US Supreme Court in Stewart v. Abend, 495 U. S. 207 (1990). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
