THE BLACK MOUNTAIN

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red paper-covered boards with black titles to the spine, in the William Randell illustrated dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a previous owner's name at the head of the title page and a tiny '32' stamp at the bottom corner of the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper which has a short, clean closed tear to the top of the front spine fold, repaired with a single piece of tape to the underside. Unpriced to the front flap, for export. A lovely copy.

The seventeenth Nero Wolfe mystery novel. An uncommon instance of Wolfe leaving his New York brownstone as he travels to Montenegro amidst the aftermath of the murder of his oldest friend. First published in the US in 1954 by the Viking Press. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).