Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Rex Stout
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- Seller
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition (with publisher's colophon on copyright page). Hardbound, black-lettered brown cloth, in good+ condition with previous owner bookplate on front endpaper. Dj flaps have been separated and attached to front pastedown, remainder of dj shows moderate edgewear, free of chips or tears in near very-good condition.
Synopsis
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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Details
- Bookseller
- SunriseBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1310
- Title
- Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nero Wolfe
Terms of Sale
SunriseBooks
Prepayment by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover), check or money order. Books returnable within ten days.
About the Seller
SunriseBooks
Biblio member since 2005
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
About SunriseBooks
Open shop selling new and used books with a specialty in Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with a mail order sideline in detective fiction. Established in 1974.
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