The Red Box
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Midland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, inc., 1937. First edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition with F&R colophon on copyright page. In first issue dust jacket with expert restoration to shallow chips at edges. Book reinforced at hinges, else fine and bright. In custom slipcase. Perhaps the scarcest of the early Nero Wolfe mysteries.
Synopsis
The Red Box is the fourth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its first publication in 1937 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. , the novel was serialized in five issues of The American Magazine (December 1936–April 1937). Together with The League of Frightened Men, it was collected in The Nero Wolfe Omnibus (1944) by the World Publishing Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Graver & Pen Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012311
- Title
- The Red Box
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...