GAMBIT

First UK edition. Publisher's original red paper-covered boards with black titles to the spine, in the [John Rose] illustrated dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the boards bright and fresh. The contents, with two very small numerical ink notes to the rear pastedown and faint offsetting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with bright, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is without fading or loss. Not price-clipped (12s 6d net to the lower front flap).

A Nero Wolfe detective novel, first published in America by the Viking Press in 1962. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).