Fer-De-Lance : A Nero Wolfe Mystery
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1/4" spine head tear with chipping, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the "notoriously rare" first edition of Fer-de-Lance: "Black cloth, front cover and spine stamped with gold lettering; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, pink and green pictorial dust wrapper
As is true of all the Nero Wolfe novels published by Farrar & Rinehart, the first edition may be identified by the appearance of the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page. If no logo appears on the copyright page the book is a later printing." Hard-to-find First Edition, First Printing of the first Nero Wolfe mystery.; 313 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15471
- Title
- Fer-De-Lance : A Nero Wolfe Mystery
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Nero Wolfe, Detective Mystery - Series, 1st Nero Wolfe
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About the Seller
Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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- Chipping
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