Rex Stout | The Red Box, 1937

Rex Stout

The Red Box. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1937

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in red, DUST-JACKET, minor spotting and browning, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, head and foot of spine bumped, spine slightly creased, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss and tears, adhesive tape repair to reverse

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)).

PROVENANCE:

The Alexis Galanos Collection