Rex Stout | The League of Frightened Men, 1935

Rex Stout

The League of Frightened Men. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original black cloth lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, contemporary ownership signature to half-title, some browning to endpapers, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some loss, adhesive tape repairs to reverse, some creases

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series is, in the opinion of Guy M. Townsend, "the most outstanding achievement in the mystery field in the post-Holmes era" (see Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980)).

LITERATURE:

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE:

The Alexis Galanos Collection