Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
STOUT, REX. Forest Fire. 8vo, original red cloth lettered in black, tiny bit of discoloration to spine head, top edges stained blue; printed dust jacket, spine panel slightly faded (else colors uncommonly bright and vivid) with very light chipping to tips and small abrasion touching two letters in "Farrar," partially price clipped, few small corner nicks; internally clean. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933

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first edition of Stout's fourth book. "As a stylist, Stout had only one limitation: he could not write a bad sentence" (Steinbrunner/Penzler, p. 377).