Black Orchids
by Rex Stout
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Midland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Printing stated for Tower Books Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket very good or better with only a little wear and tiny loss to sipne foot, else quite nice. Former owner blindstamp to endpaper. Book pages have usual yellowing. First signature a bit loose, but holding, else very good. null A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery: Black Orchids and Cordially Invited to Meet Death. First thus.
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
- Graver & Pen Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0006933
- Title
- Black Orchids
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing stated for Tower Books Edition
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1945
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