BEFORE MIDNIGHT. A Nero Wolfe Novel.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth, with darker blue titles to the upper board and spine, in the Bill English designed dustwrapper. Top edge dark blue. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with just a touch of fading to the extreme edges of the cloth, and with light rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with a small foxing spot to the bottom edge of the lightly toned closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, which has a small chip to the rear panel, and is otherwise bright and without fading or tears. Not price-clipped ($2.75 to the upper front flap).

The eighteenth Nero Wolfe novel. Published in October 1955. The first UK edition, published by Collins, The Crime Club followed in 1956. (Hubin).