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And Be a Villain
by Rex Stout
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near fine/very good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/very good. Octavo. 8" x 5 1/2". Tan cloth. in pictorial dust jacket . Price of $2.50 on dust jacket flap. A bit of fading to lettering on dust jacket spine. A very nice copy in dust jacket. 13th Nero Wolfe Mystery. Dust jacket design by Bill English.
Synopsis
And Be a Villain (British title More Deaths Than One) is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1948. The story was collected in the omnibus volumes Full House (Viking 1961) and Triple Zeck (Viking 1974).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75292
- Title
- And Be a Villain
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine/very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Nero Wolfe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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