Search Results: black orchids a nero wolfe double by stout rex

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1945. Reprint Ediiton. Hardcover. Good/N/A. Second Printing of the reprint edition. In dark green boards with light green type. Wear at spine ends and corners. Pages heavily tanned.

World Pub.. 2nd. 1945. good+. Hardcover. Also includes "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." 271pp; green cover with light green lettering; some wear to extrems of cover; corners bumped; soiling to cover; pp browning .

World, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A Tower Mystery. Jacket almost torn in half along spine but most of jacket is present. .

Cleveland & New York: A Tower Mystery / World Publishing Company, 1945. First Thus. Cloth . Good/Fair. First printing of Tower Books Mystery. Octavo in heavily edgeworn & chipped dustjacket. Tape 'repairs' and tape residue, Tanning end pages and marginal darkening through text interiors. Tape residue on pastedowns front & rear. Pine green cloth covered boards with light green lettering along spine and stamped light green Tower Mystery colophon. Board edges darkened and worn espcecially top and bottom of spine. Textblock top edge heavily darkened/dust stained with one inch by one half inch stain. [271 pages]

Front Page mysteries/ Collier, 1942. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Front Page mysteries/ Collier, 1/1/1942 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. Two early Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin mysteries - satisfactory! Ex-library with stamps to the end papers and a few spots in the text. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the extremeties. Rear hinge loose, front hinge cracked with the front free end paper missing. The proud previous owners have eagerly stamped their names on the upper edge of the text block and several times on the end papers and throughout the text so you would not easily forget who this book belonged to. Jacket is rubbed with chips and tears, including a 2" tear down the upper front spine fold and across the spine. Spine is sunned, jacket is attached to a stiff paper backing with the flaps glued to the pastedowns. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Poor/Fair. Ex-Library.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition (with publisher's colophon on copyright page). Hardbound, black-lettered brown cloth, in good+ condition with previous owner bookplate on front endpaper. Dj flaps have been separated and attached to front pastedown, remainder of dj shows moderate edgewear, free of chips or tears in near very-good condition.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, 1942, 1942. First Edition. Cloth with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good +. Octavo. Brick-red cloth, black lettering, pp. viii, 271. Housed in a price-clipped dust jacket with chips to the corners and spine ends, slightly rubbed and dust soiled, minute tanning to endpapers, edges dust soiled, previous owner's signature to the first free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a good plus dust jacket.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Octavo. 8 1/2' x 5 3/4". 271pp. Red cloth black lettering to cover and spine.. In color pictorial dust jacket Price of $2.00 on dust jacket flap. Two small holes to dust jacket at spine. Inside dust jacket shows some faint staining. Edge rubbing to bottom of dust jacket. Toning near joints of front and rear endpapers. Ninth Nero Wolfe novel.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo, 271 pages; publsiher's brick-colored cloth; first printing, with Farrar Rinehart logo on copyright page. Dust jacket with $2.00 on front flap, spine slightly faded. Light tape ghost off-set onto end papers, owner name and date on FFEP, bookplate; small check marks by some titles on "Books By Rex Stout" page.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good in Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardback. Originally priced at $2.00/red HB with black lettering on front and spine in illustrated jacket with clear vinyl cover/big chip; 8 vo; 271 pages; Tear at top spine, smaller one at bottom spine/small tear at front top corner .

New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-271 [272-280: blank], original brownish-red cloth front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. The ninth Nero Wolfe mystery. Collects two stories, "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." Both stories first published in the American Magazine. "Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" ... The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage - and menagerie - of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment." - Time magazine review, 1 June, 1942. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, C1a.