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Some Buried Caesar: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
by Rex Stout
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. A solid, perfectly serviceable copy of the 1939 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in a bright, price-intact ("$2.00"), VG- to VG dustjacket, with light chipping and creasing along the panel edges and spine ends, and light staining to the rear panel. Still though, very presentable. 12mo, the great Rex Stout's 6th Nero Wolfe mystery.
Synopsis
Some Buried Caesar is the sixth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine (December 1938), under the title "The Red Bull. " It was first published in book form by Farrar & Rinehart in 1939. The novel is included in the omnibus volume All Aces, published in 1958 by the Viking Press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13647
- Title
- Some Buried Caesar: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- rare mysteries, rare detective fiction, rare Rex Stout, rare Nero Wolfe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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