Plot by Stout Rex, First Edition (19 results)

Paperback. first edition. A-2156 very good , creases paperback,

softcover/paperback. first. Very good+ Nero Wolfe Mystery novel by Rex Stout. Reading crease, Name written in pen on first page. otherwise clean tight copy. in mylar wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. DJ has heavy edge wear with scuffing and smudging as well as tearing with paper loss. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping. Binding is sound. End pages have age-toning and smudging. Page edges have age-toning with scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 183 pp. Pale green cloth with lettering. Spine and edges faded, bottom front corner bumped - good. Price-intact jacket has a faded spine, wear to the corners, and small areas of loss to the spine extremities - also good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bantam A 2156. 1st edition, thus. Tight binding, bright, crisp pictorial wraps, bright yellow edges, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Uncreased wraps and spine strip in mylar sleeve.

Embossed front plate. No dust jacket. Deckled pages, crimson top edges. Bumping, slight tanning of (tilted) spine. Still, interiors are bright and tight and unsullied. First edition. VG+? See photos.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Spine leans forward, text block beginning to pull away from backstrip at crown, minor wear to jacket corners, ink name and small spot on front endpapers. 1966 Hard Cover. 472 pp. Includes two full-length novels and three shorter works, all featuring the detective Nero Wolfe: Too Many Cooks; Plot It Yourself; Triple Jeopardy: Home To Roost, The Cop-Killer, The Squirt and the Monkey. "Rex Stout was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First edition. A bibliomystery."Somebody was accusing America's most celebrated living writers of plagiarism - and getting away with it." Wolfe must determine who had written what manuscript. A VERY GOOD+ book ( evidence of previous owner's small bookplate removal and another's inscription to same front free endpaper) in VERY GOOD+ jacket ( a little wear to spine ends and rubbing at folds). Price intact. One of two bibliomysteries written by Stout; the other being Murder By The Book!

Condition: Very Good +. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 183pp. Light green boards stamped in red; light red topstain. No dust jacket. Boards slightly cocked and shows very mild shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. With remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First edition. A bibliomystery."Somebody was accusing America's most celebrated living writers of plagiarism - and getting away with it." Wolfe must determine who had written what manuscript. A NEAR FINE book (trace of sunning to board edges) in VERY GOOD+ jacket ( a little wear and small closed tears to spine ends at folds; trace of sunning to same). Price intact. One of two bibliomysteries written by Stout; the other being Murder By The Book!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. A solid, clean copy with no markings inside or out. Probably read once and shelved. Bright red boards still have sharp corners. Top edge red to match. Unclipped ($4.50) jacket is beautiful but for some minor loss at the extreme bottom edge of the front cover (see photo), and a tiny tear at the top rear gutter. Quite desirable in new mylar!

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Text leaves clean, edges uniformly tanned, library marks and label to endpapers (no stamps to text leaves), jacket particularly fresh. Another case for the eccentric oversized New York armchair detective Nero Wolfe, published as 'Plot it Yourself' in America. The mysteries of Rex Stout were cited as an influence by thriller writer Ian Fleming, being mentioned by name in the James Bond novels (read by 007 and frowned upon by M). Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction pp.277-281. Gilbert, p.624.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 472pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, very nice copy in bright red boards with a nice unclipped dust jacket with light edge-wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Someone is accusing America's most celebrated living authors of plagiarism, and then the first body if found. Nero and Archie are on the case. Bumped with sunning at the edges, foxing to the upper edges of the boards and edges of the text block. Small drip mark to the upper front. Binding square and solid with a sticker scuff to the front end paper. Jacket rubbed with wear at the edges, spine crease. Internal and external tape repair to the spine head, faint damp stain to the rear panel only visible internally. Price clipped, in Brodart.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 183. VG in chipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear, tear, chipping, and some fading and staining on the spine. Cover shows minor wear and fading. Pages are lightly tanned and clean with metal tab bookmarks on a few of them.

183 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight sunning to the edges of the boards; otherwise a very nice copy in a jacket with some chipping at the extremities of the spine and some light general use. Inscribed, in 1959, by Rex Stout on the front free endpaper.

The Viking Press. New York. 1959. First edition. Hardback in DW. Boards are a little faded to margins."6-15-81" in ink to top margin of front pastedown o/w a very clean copy in bright but worn wrapper with slightly sunned spine and 1½ inch closed tear to head of spine with some creasing, and slight rubbing to extremities.