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Nero Wolfe: 6 works

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29.09.2023 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 408 | Nero Wolfe: 6 works
A group of six volumes, comprising:

STOUT, Rex (1886-1975). The Red Box. A Nero Wolfe Mystery. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1937.
First edition. Octavo. (Some spotting.) Original grey cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in red (extremities somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, spine sunned, endpapers browned); original dust-jacket (creased and torn, with flaps and backstrip restored/reattached, chip to top edge of upper cover causing textual loss to title, lower panel and backstrip soiled with further closed tears and chips).

— Too Many Cooks. A Nero Wolfe Mystery. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1938.
First edition. Octavo. 12-leaf insert at end on blue paper (two tiny marginal chips). Original red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in black, top edge stained blue (faint marks, a few spots and stains to edges, endpapers browned); original dust-jacket (spine panel and top edge of upper panel lightly faded, spine ends just chipped, lightly rubbed with a few tiny closed tears and nicks, stains to verso). Provenance: ownership inscription (front free endpaper) —Ream’s (bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown).

— Too Many Cooks. An American Magazine Mystery Novel. The American Magazine, March 1938.
First edition of a set of Nero Wolfe’s favourite recipes. Octavo. 34 individual recipe cards, one menu card and one ‘Important’ card with a note from 'Nero Wolfe’, loose as issued (very lightly toned); housed in original red cloth solander box with gilt edges ; original integral dust-jacket (edges chipped with some textual loss to publisher’s name, some tears and small stains, light fading); modern black clamshell box.

— Where There’s A Will. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1940.
First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and upper cover decorated and titled in black, top edge stained black (faintest wear, endpapers slightly browned); original dust-jacket (lightly rubbed and sunned, a couple of tiny nicks). Provenance: bookplate to front pastedown.

— Red Threads. London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1941.
First edition in the original dust-jacket. Octavo. (Textblock cracked in two places.) Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled); original price-clipped dust-jacket (faintly tanned).

— Death of a Doxy. A Nero Wolfe Novel. New York: The Viking Press, 1966.
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author. Octavo. Original light blue cloth-backed yellow boards, spine with titles in blue; original dust-jacket with circular hole to upper panel to reveal design stamped to upper cover (very faintly rubbed). Provenance: William David Brumbaugh (authorial presentation inscription to front free endpaper) — 1-page typed letter signed [‘Rex Stout’] to Brumbagh (tipped in to front free endpaper, dated September 5 1967).
Place of origin:USA
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