First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with just a touch of fading to the extreme top edge. The contents, with some toning to the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, which is a little faded to the spine, with some toning to the rear panel and flap edges. Not price-clipped (10s 6d. net to the lower front flap).
The twenty-first Nero Wolfe novel. First published in America by Viking in November 1958. This first British edition followed in September 1959. (Hubin).
Stock code: 29951
£55