
Lot Closed
February 4, 04:56 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Rex Stout
Where There's a Will. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, browning to endpapers, foot of spine slightly bumped, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss and several creases, 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