(Hammett, Dashiell; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Sayers, Dorothy; Stout, Rex; et al).

The Pocket Mystery Reader. [Includes the Complete Novelette "the Farewell Murder" by Dashiell Hammett, Which Was Subsequently Adapted for the Screen As "Another Thin Man"].

New York: Pocket Books, Inc. (1942). (1942). - Small octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, mass market paperback bound in orange, black & yellow wraps. The covers are creased with minor wear to the head and tail of the spine. The top and bottom edges of the rear cover are lightly dampstained. 363 & 11] pages. There is a vertical crease to the inner edge of one leaf and the bottom edges of the last several pages are lightly stained from the red dye. Good.

First printing.

Includes Dashiell Hammett's novelette, "The Farewell Murder", a Continental Op story first published in 1930 which was then adapted as "Another Thin Man", the third entry in the Thin Man series of films. Good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 97487

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; MYSTERY; DASHIELL HAMMETT; THE FAREWELL MURDER; DETECTIVE FICTION; ANOTHER THIN MAN; THE POCKET MYSTERY READER; ERLE STANLEY GARDNER; DOROTHY SAYERS; REX STOUT; FIRST PRINTING; 1ST; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; FICTION; MASS MARKET PAPER

Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Rex Stout

Die besten Morde II. Berühmte Fälle der klassischen Kriminalliteratur.

Scherz, Mchn. 1991-05. 431 S. Broschiert Guter altersbedingter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag ISBN: 3502512906. gut - gebraucht

buchgenie.de Sigrun WuerteleProfessional seller

Book number: BU227850

Catalogue: Ratgeber

Agatha Christie, Daphne Du Maurier, Daold Dahl, Rex Stout

Die besten Morde II. Berühmte Fälle der klassischen Kriminalliteratur.

Scherz 1991-05. 265 S. Broschiert Guter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag ISBN: 3502512906. Gut - gebraucht

buchgenie.de Sigrun WuerteleProfessional seller

Book number: BU302287

Catalogue: Ratgeber

ANONYMOUS [REX STOUT]

THE PRESIDENT VANISHES

Grosset & Dunlap, 1934.. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardcover, 12mo, appx 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, [viii] + 296 pages, VG+ in VG- dj (dj in new protective mylar). Farrar & Rinehart colophon on cp, but Grosset & Dunlap on dj spine, book spine and tp. Book itself tight binding & hinges intact, crisp and clean throughout interior including photo-illustrated endpapers, no names, no writing. Cloth covers black titling on red cloth, square corners, very clean. Top edges publisher's dark blue stain. Grosset dj has $.75 price intact and differs markedly in design from the Farrar dj. DJ for the most part very clean, printed red/black on white background, no fading, some edgewear including back panel short splits, head of spine pulling & small chip, very short corner splits + front panel two triangular chips out (half-inch top corner and three-fourths inch top edge just affecting the "E" in "The" in the title). Very Good/Very Good.

Robert W. Reiner BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 06326

Keywords: Fiction

ASIMOV, ISAAC ; WODEHOUSE P G (ALSO REX STOUT INTEREST)

Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine Contains the Next Day Death at the Excelsior. Volume 71 #5

United States, Davis Publications. 1971. Pulp Paperbound. Book, Spine splitting at base. Cover has Nero Wolfe from Rex Stout , but magazine has no Rex Stout content. Stories Include material by John Lutz, William Brittain, Isaac Asimov (The Next day) Ann McKenzie, Brian Garfield, H. Edward Hunsberger, P. G. Wodehouse (Death at the Excelsior) Clarice Greenspan, Jonl. Breen, Michael Avallone, Avram Davidson, Thomas Walsh, Lawrence Block, Edward D. Hoch. Where possible small books will have postage reduced. Fair+:Good-.

Caerwen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 006101

Chandler, Raymond (Cornell Woolrich, Rex Stout, Frank Kane, Bruno Fischer, and others also contribute to this issue)

"Bay City Blues" ("novelette") in Verdict, volume 1, number 3 (August, 1953)

New York, Flying Eagle Publications, 1953. First Edition. 0 pp. Solft cover. Very good in original wrappers with corner creases, light edgewear, and light rubbing. Very Good.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b45104

Ellery Queen presenteert / Simenon, George / Stout, Rex / Dickson Carr, John / e.a.

Moordverhalen.

Aartselaar, ZHU, 1979. l., 254p., formaat 14-20-4cm., hard cover. -

Antiquariaat De WoudduifProfessional seller

Book number: 105370

Catalogue: Literatuur

(Stout, Rex) Gabriel, Gilbert W.

"Mystery on High Meadow: Summer and Winter in the Life of Rex Stout" in The Saturday Review of Literature Vol. XVI No. 21 (September 1937)

Saturday Review Company, 1937. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Complete, original publication. Near fine condition with light stains on top of back panel. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: uh24

Goldsborough, Robert; Stout, Rex, Based on the Books By,

Last Coincidence: A Nero Wolfe Mystery.

New York, Bantam Books, 1989. 1st Printing. Hardcover., Vg (See Description), Vg/Vg Prev. Owner Bookplate Inside. Pages Clean & Tight. Dj in Mylar Wrap. Pages: 183.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER314845I

Catalogue: Mystery

REX STOUT MYSTERY QUARTERLY (DASHIELL HAMMETT; MIGNON G. EBERHART; JOHN DICKSON CARR; DOROTHY L. SAYERS; H. P. LOVECRAFT; JACK BOYLE; WILLIAM IRISH - AKA CORNELL WOOLRICH; ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT; BENNETT COPPLESTONE)

Rex Stout Mystery Quarterly: No. 3, February, Feb. 1946

NY, Avon. 1946. SingleIssueMagazine. [Vol. 1] No. 3. Includes "They Can Only Hang You Once" by Dashiell Hammett; "The Calico Dog" by Mignon G. Eberhart; "The Locked Door" by John Dickson Carr; "A Matter of Taste" by Dorothy L. Sayers; "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft; "Boston Blackie's Mary" by Jack Boyle; "The Man Upstairs" by William Irish [Cornell Woolrich]; "The Vanishing Lady" by Alexander Woollcott; "The Butler" by Bennett Copplestone. Edge and corner wear; creasing; mild tanning. Very Good+.

Books from the cryptProfessional seller

Book number: PR1278

Catalogue: Magazines

Keywords: Detective Mystery Magazine Mystery Magazines

(Stout, Rex) Johnston, Alva

"Alias Nero Wolfe" (part one of serialized profile of Rex Stout) in New Yorker (July 16, 1949)

New York, 1949. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with a center crease on the rear panel and a corner crease. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b31272

(Stout, Rex) Johnston, Alva

"Alias Nero Wolfe" (part two of serialized profile of Rex Stout) in New Yorker (July 23, 1949)

New York, 1949. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with a center crease on the rear panel and a corner crease. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b31273

Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day-Lewis]; Joan Fleming; Harry Carmichael [Leopold Horace Ognall]; James Henderson; Rex Stout

A Collection of Novels from the Crime Club Choice

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1968-1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of exciting thrillers and detective stories from the Collins Crime Club, with the original dust wrappers. Five volumes. Crime Club Choice. This set includes: The Private Wound, 1968. First edition. Written by Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name of Nicholas Blake, an Anglo-Irish poet who was Poet Laureate from 1968 until 1972. He also wrote mystery novels featuring the detective Nigel Strangeways. Young Man, I Think You're Dying, 1970. First edition. Written by Joan Fleming, a British crime and thriller writer who has won the Gold Dagger award twice, once for this novel. The Quiet Woman, 1971. First edition. Written by Leopold Horace Ognall, under the pen name of Harry Carmichael, a British crime novelist and journalist who wrote over ninety novels. Copperhead, 1972. First UK edition, originally published in the US in 1971. Written by James Henderson, an American author of crime fiction. Please Pass the Guilt, 1974. First UK edition, originally published in the US in 1973. Written by Rex Stout, an American writer noted for his detective fiction and remembered as the creator of the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin who featured in over thirty novels and forty novellas and short stories between 1934 and 1975. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of The Quiet Woman. Original dust wrappers are unclipped other than Young Man, I Think You're Dying which is price-clipped. Wrappers are sound with shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Small closed tears to the edges of the panels and light sunning to the spines. The odd small mark. Loss to the spine of The Quiet Woman. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 892T24

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Day-Lewis Fleming Carmichael Henderson Fleming Blake None

STOUT REX EDITED JOHN MCALEER

Justice ends at home and other stories

New York, Viking. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670411051) Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. papered boards, cloth spine, a little dusty but otherwise VG+ DW is also VG under plastic cover, unclipped. 267pp. Intro + 16 early Stout tales (pre-Nero Wolfe). NOTA the title on the spine is blue at the top of the letters but green at the lower part, this may be sunning but could be the way it was printed, let me know if you can clarify!. Very Good/Very Good.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 000397

Catalogue: Crime & Thriller Fiction

Keywords: Crime Thriller Fiction Nero Wolfe American 0670411051

STOUT REX EDITED JOHN MCALEER

Justice ends at home and other stories

New York, Viking. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670411051) Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. papered boards, cloth spine, a little dusty but otherwise VG+ DW is also VG under plastic cover, unclipped. 267pp. Intro + 16 early Stout tales (pre-Nero Wolfe). NOTA the title on the spine is blue at the top of the letters but green at the lower part, this may be sunning but could be the way it was printed, let me know if you can clarify!. Very Good/Very Good.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 012414

Catalogue: Crime & Thriller Fiction

Keywords: Crime Thriller Fiction Nero Wolfe American 0670411051