The Red Box
by STOUT, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fine (Facsimile DW)
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. Bound in gray cloth, stamped in red. A tight, clean copy of the true first edition (with the "FR" imprint on the copyright page. The true first edition of this Nero Wolfe mystery. Included in the price is a facsimile dustwrapper that fits perfectly. Top edge of pages stained in red. [iv], [1]-298, [1-5 (sic)], [5, blank] pages. Quite Scarce!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Fine (Facsimile DW).
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
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000736
- Title
- The Red Box
- Author
- STOUT, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fine (Facsimile DW)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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- Dustwrapper
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