CHAMPAGNE FOR ONE. A Nero Wolfe Mystery.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth, with purple titles to the spine, and roses illustration in purple to the upper board, in the Bill English designed dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with some rubbing to the spine tips and extremities. The contents, with just a hint of offsetting and a couple of small foxing spots to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, which is lightly spotted to the flaps, and is otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($2.95 to the upper front flap).

The twenty-first Nero Wolfe novel. Published in November 1958. The first UK edition, published by Collins, The Crime Club followed in September 1959. (Hubin).