The American Magazine November 1934 - Point of Death (Fer de Lance), Beauty's Daughter, The Closed Room, Fellow Citizens, I Love You, The Corn Planting, Hero Poison, The Next Step in the New Deal, Scattergood, Ruralist, and others

The November 1934 issue of the American Magazine. It contains most notably, complete in this issue, Point of Death, an abridged version of Fer-de-Lance - the first Nero Wolfe novel. This precedes the book publication and can arguably be asserted to be the "true first edition" of the Nero Wolfe classic. I'll leave that judgment to the bibliographers & completists. Other articles and fiction include part 2 of 6 of Beauty's Daughter, a novel by Kathleen Norris, part 4 of 6 of The Closed Room, a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, Fellow Citizens, I Love You, poetry by Ogden Nash, The Corn Planting, an article by Sherwood Anderson, Hero Poison, an article on egos and college football by Paul Gallico, The Next Step in the New Deal, an article by Walter Lippmann, Scattergood, an Interesting People feature of Thomas J Neary, Ruralist, an Interesting People feature of Sherwood Anderson. and others. Light edge wear to the front cover with small dark streaks along the spine and the less on the bottom edge. Small loss at the top & bottom of the spine. The spine is very dark, almost black, but still readable. Light damp stains to the for edge of the pages that fades out by page 20 and the top & bottom corners of the pages that fades out by page 84 at the top and 100 at the bottom. No cutouts or missing pages. A good or better copy of a hard to find example of a cornerstone of golden age mystery fiction.…