Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
STOUT, REX. Too Many Cooks. 8vo, publisher's red cloth stamped in navy, covers very bright and clean; dust jacket, spine panel mildly sunned, few short clean tears, "t" in "Author" affected, scattered light spotting evident largely on verso only, but excellent overall; endpapers a bit toned from binding glue, no internal markings. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1938)

Additional Details

first edition of the fifth Nero Wolfe novel. With twenty-three pages of recipes on blue stock at end. A near fine copy in appealingly bright dust jacket.