Rex Stout Edited By (23 results)

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. New York, Ny,: The American Mercury. American Mercury , NY , 1948 First Edition 144 page Digest Sized magazine Edited by Ellery Queen with stories by Rex Stout , Dorothy L. Sayers , Cornell Woolrich and others A very good copy with light edge wear, light dust soiling , Text lightly toned. See Photos magbx 8 / E.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good-dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some beginning toning to the innner spine joints where the glue has started to discolor and show through. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and creases. This book includes a series of short works including: The Rope Dance, An Officer and a Lady, The Mother of Invention, An Agacella Or, A Tyrant Abdicates, The Pay-Yeoman, Rose Orchid, The Lie, Heels of Fate, Pamfret and Peace, Methode Americaine, Jonathan Stannard's Secret Vice, A Professional Recall, Secrets, Warner & Wife, Justice Ends at Home. "Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975. In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century. In addition to writing fiction, Stout was a prominent public intellectual for decades." (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Black cloth spine /gray boards. DJ Not Price Clipped (8.95). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Very Near Fine condition in a beautiful, bright, shiny, Fine Dust Jacket with only a touch of rubbing to corners. Protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. No chips, tears, or creases. A shadow of darkening (offset from binder's glue) along gutter of rear endpaper. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, and unmarked. "First published in 1977 by The Viking Press" is so stated on the copyright page. This is the first book appearance, and first collected edition, of 16 crime stories that Stout wrote and published in magazines between 1913 and 1917. From the Dust Jacket: "Stout fans will love them for the early signs of Wolf, Archie, and other characters - to say nothing of the occasional autobiographical voice that slips in here and there." Townsend C15. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine /gray boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (8.95). Illus. by Graboff, Abner (jacket design). 8vo. 267pp. Graboff, Abner (jacket design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. A FINE book inNEAR FINE jacket ( one chip to top of front panel). Sixteen early stories never before available in book form published between 1913 and 1917. ** Media mail available to USA**.

dj. First Edition. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); little edgewear & few short tears) d/j. 8vo., two-toned cloth in dust jacket; 267 pages. Edited by John McAleer. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Near fine in a good only edgeworn, chipped and scuffed dust jacket. Contains 1 short novel "Murder is No Joke" by Rex Stout, 2 novelets, and 19 short stories by various authors such Isaac Asimov, Joyce Porter, Jacob Hay, and many others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. A FINE book in FINE jacket ( one miniscule nick to base of front panel). Sixteen early stories never before available in book form published between 1913 and 1917. ** Media mail available to USA**.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Third printing stated, illustrated, 192 pgs., pages clean, bound in orange cloth, front board shows crease across lower section of board, board tips bumped, top edge of spine cloth, chipped. Dust jacket missing pieces at board edges, middle of spine spine edges, back panel, chipped edges in protective mylar. William Gropper (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Second printing, published in the same month as the first edition. Orange cloth with blue lettering along the spine and design at front. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrations by William Gropper. Very scarce. According to Sullivan and the editor, this book "is a collection of some of the silliest, stupidest, and most dangerous statements that have ever ben made by men laying claim to being leaders of the American people. . .The quotations in this book are only a sampling of the speeches delivered in the halls of Congress and elsewhere by U.S. Senators and Congressmen who have given currency to Nazi propaganda which is designed to bring about the defeat of the United States, the creation of a fascist America subservient to Hitler's Germany". Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. There are many other authors. B1 2.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 4/- to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 3/6 to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 3/6 to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 3/6 to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, small rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Small octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. This issue includes "They Can Only Hang You Once," a Sam Spade story by Dashiell Hammett and "Rats in the Walls," by H. P. Lovecraft. Other fiction by John Dickson Carr, William Irish, Dorothy Sayers and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453]. Light edge wear, wear and small tear to base of spine, a very good to nearly fine copy. (24235). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Near Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 19x13.cm. 256pp. Bound in original publishers black cloth, with yellow title lettering. Slight lean on spine, spotting to outer page edges. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed, some loss on edges, a few short tears, price clipped. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, inscription of fixed endpaper, dated 1959, occasional minor spotting. Pages clean. A nice copy. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Contains the first book publication of The Bitter End: A Nero Wolfe Novel, with an informal interview with Rex Stout, Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids, and a Rex Stout mystery checklist, 163 pages. 1776 Copies were published, with 276 bound. 26 were lettered, and 250 numbered. The remaining 1500 copies were bound in paper and numbered, this copy being number 657. Very lightly rubbed at the edges, slightly tanned, in a mylar cover. Wright, Sid (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrated by William Gropper. Ink marking on rear pastedown, crease on the front fly, a couple small soil marks on rear board, very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears (affecting a bit of text at the crown), and small soil marks on the rear panel. Voting records from members of Congress and their speeches which editor Rex Stout argues were pro-Nazi propaganda. Sullivan states in the introduction that this collection is "a sorry record of stupidity in high places.".…

Small octavo, nine issues, printed and pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A complete run of all nine issues. Stout was Editor in Chief and wrote commentary for each issue. Mostly reprints by well known authors which include John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carter Dickson, Raymond Chandler, William Irish, H. P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, and many more. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453]. All issues are nearly fine to fine, several with cover creases with the exception of issue number two which is very good. Complete runs are uncommon. (24234). …