NMLP P-037613 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Phantom Lady

William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) · J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia) · 1942

The J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia, 1942) edition is the true first and the first book published under Woolrich's William Irish pseudonym. The first UK edition came from Robert Hale (London) in 1945 — a wartime production, with some copies undated — and for every Irish title the US edition precedes the UK. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037613 for "Phantom Lady" by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037613, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).