First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding firm, the cloth, very lightly faded at the board edges and tips of the slightly rolled spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a handful of short closed tears at the edges and two tiny chips at the tips of the slightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the front flap). An attractive example of a scarce title.
A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. First published in the US in 1952 by the Viking Press under the title 'Prisoner's Base'. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).
Stock code: 29929
£175