Black Orchids
by Stout, Rex
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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The first edition, published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, has the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page.
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THE BLACK ORCHIDS: A NERO WOLFE DOUBLE MYSTERY
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381)
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- First edition
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- [1942]
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Laurel, Maryland, USA
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A$5,925.38
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Good
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- N/A
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- Reprint Ediiton
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Albany, California, USA
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A$18.96
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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. Item Price
A$18.96
BLACK ORCHIDS.
by STOUT, Rex.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1943
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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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A$126.39
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FIRST EDITION (British), lacking the dust jacket. The book is good to very good in faded and lightly soiled orange boards. Two novellas, 'Black Orchids' and 'Cordially Invited to Meet Death.' Item Price
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Black Orchids [in] Rex Stout Mystery Quarterly #1, May, 1945
by Stout, Rex (with Introduction by); stories by Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett; Agatha Christie; John Steinbeck; H. F. Heard; W.W. Jacobs; H. Felix Valcoe; Dorothy L. Sayers; Bruno Fischer
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- Used - Near Fine condition
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- Printed cover price 25 cents
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- First Edition
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- 1945
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- Paperback
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Henderson, Nevada, USA
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A$65.57
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New York: Joseph Meyers / Avon Book Company, 1945. 5.25" wide by 7.5" tall. Original wraps, printed in green, maroon, black, and yellow. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, and unmarked. Tight binding. Text pages (wartime paper) browning, as usual. Cover still bright and shiny. First issue of this digest. … Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK ORCHIDS (Front Page Mysteries, Fifth Series)
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Good-
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- 1942
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- Hardcover
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N. Potomac, Maryland, USA
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A$9.48
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NY: P. F. Collier & Son, 1942. (1942) Black 'fabrikoid' with weapons stamped in blind on front and title in gold on spine with red block; 271pps. Spine ends worn with FS in white paint pen towards heel; lots of internal indicators, pocket, stamps, sticker; name and address and date (Sept. 28, 1945) on front pastedown in pen.. Hardcover. Good-.… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK ORCHIDS.
by STOUT, REX.
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- Used
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- First edition
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- 1942
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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A$2,370.15
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]., 1942. First edition. First edition. Very good, tight copy in in a bright, unfaded dust jacket, with light professional restoration to edges. A Nero Wolfe double mystery. In Black Orchids trouble comes to Nero when he goes to the Flower Show. In Cordially Invited to Meet Death, Wolfe meets a high-powered social… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids
by Rex Stout
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Printing stated for Tower Books Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Midland, Michigan, USA
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A$55.30
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Printing stated for Tower Books Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket very good or better with only a little wear and tiny loss to sipne foot, else quite nice. Former owner blindstamp to endpaper. Book pages have usual yellowing. First signature a bit loose, but holding, else very good.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids (Nero Wolfe Mysteries)
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1992
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780553205664
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- 1
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Dublin, Dublin, IRL
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A$1.68
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NY: Bantam, 1992. mild creasing, edges darkening.. Reprint. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
A$1.68
Black Orchids; Nero Wolfe
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Good +
- Published
- 1972
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780515032697
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA
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A$6.32
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New York, N. Y: Pyramid Books, 1972. Trade Paperback. Good +. No DJ Issued Nero Wolf solves yet another crime. 190 pages. Cover shows wear and at the upper corner, rubbing that has defaced the very corner front and back. Book shop stamp inside. Good reading copy or for those just collecting vintage paperbacks, until they can… Read more about this item Item Price
A$6.32
Black Orchids
by STOUT, REX
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- Used - First Edition. Back hinge slightly started; inked “First Edition” inside the front cover; a little cloth fraying; very good
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- 1942
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Newton, Massachusetts, USA
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A$1,580.10
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Back hinge slightly started; inked “First Edition” inside the front cover; a little cloth fraying; very good in a very good dust jacket with a small archival mend inside the spine, some small chips and minor wear. Item Price
A$1,580.10
Black Orchids
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Topeka, Kansas, USA
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A$47.40
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1945. 1. Hardcover. A Tower Mystery reprinting of Black Orchids together with Cordially Invited to Meet Death. Covers show light general wear. Text is toned though well bound and free from marks. Jacket is worn at all edges with a few chips and tears as well… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids
by Rex Stout
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- Used - very good
- Published
- 1975
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- Mass Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780515032697
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- 1
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Salem, Oregon, USA
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A$23.69
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New York: Pyramid, 1975. Mass Paperback. very good. Very good condition. Front has slight wear at top edge; back has reading crease near spine and slight wear at top edge. Spine is not crease; straight. Pages are clean and unmarked; light. Pyramid mass paperback, 7th printing Jan. 1975, ISBN: 9780515032697, Pyramid N3269, 190 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 7"")… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids
by Stout, Rex
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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A$1,271.98
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. With a TLS on Rex Stout letterhead, signed by Stout. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped but scratched out, generally soiled, faded at the spine, chipped at the edges, a large closed tear on the back panel. Orange cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Orchids
by STOUT, REX
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- Used - First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with light wear and tear and a slightly faded spine.
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- 1942
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Newton, Massachusetts, USA
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A$1,975.12
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with light wear and tear and a slightly faded spine. Item Price
A$1,975.12
BLACK ORCHIDS
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Very Good-
- Published
- 1946
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- Paperback
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N. Potomac, Maryland, USA
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A$31.60
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NY: Avon, 1946. [1st printing](1946) #95. Cover art is uncredited. Creasing; spine head bent; tanning; name in pen and date in pencil on first page.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good-. Item Price
A$31.60
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Black Orchids; A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Rex Stout
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- Used - very good/very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1942
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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A$1,185.08
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,185.08
Black Orchids
by STOUT, REX
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- Used - First Edition. Closed tears in two leaves archivally (and nearly imperceptibly) mended, else nearly fine in a dust jacket with m
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- 1942
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Newton, Massachusetts, USA
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A$2,133.14
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Closed tears in two leaves archivally (and nearly imperceptibly) mended, else nearly fine in a dust jacket with minor wear and tiny chips and tears. Item Price
A$2,133.14
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Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery - Black Orchids and Cordially Invited to Meet Death
by Stout, Rex
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- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- 1942
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Northfield, Minnesota, USA
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A$276.52
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
A$276.52
Black Orchids (Nero Wolfe)
by Rex Stout
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1992
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- Mass Market Paperback
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- 9780553257199
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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A$9.46
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Crimeline, 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
A$9.46
Black Orchids
by Rex Stout
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1982-04
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780553205664
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- 1
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HOUSTON, Texas, USA
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A$16.50
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Bantam Books (Mm), 1982-04. Paperback. Good. Item Price
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