THE MOTHER HUNT.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in the John Rose illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth, nicked at the bottom of the spine and with a few marks and a light stain to the lower board. The contents, with very light toning to the prelims and the occasional mark, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a few short closed tears and some toning to the rear panel and flap edges. Not price-clipped (13s 6d net to the lower front flap).

The twenty-sixth Nero Wolfe novel. First published in America by Viking Press in July 1963, this first British edition, followed in January 1964. (Hubin).