THE BLACK MOUNTAIN. A Nero Wolfe Novel.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with yellow titles to the spine, in the Bill English designed dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a little rubbing to the spine tips and extremities, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with just a touch of spotting to the fore-edge of the closed text block and a small production flaw to page 123, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, which has a large closed tear with associated creasing at the top of to the front panel, and is otherwise without fading or loss. Not price-clipped ($2.75 to the upper front flap).

The seventeenth Nero Wolfe novel. Published in October 1954. The UK edition, published by Collins, The Crime Club, followed in August 1955. (Hubin).