Black Orchids; A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Rex Stout
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- very good/very good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Octavo. 8 1/2' x 5 3/4". 271pp. Red cloth black lettering to cover and spine.. In color pictorial dust jacket Price of $2.00 on dust jacket flap. Two small holes to dust jacket at spine. Inside dust jacket shows some faint staining. Edge rubbing to bottom of dust jacket. Toning near joints of front and rear endpapers. Ninth Nero Wolfe novel.
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
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75297
- Title
- Black Orchids; A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good/very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Nero Wolfe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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