First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased pictorial dustwrapper that has a few short closed tears at the edges of the spine and the top of the front panel. Unpriced to the front flap (for export).
A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. First published in the US in 1950 by the Viking Press under the title 'In the Best Families'. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).
Stock code: 29930
£175