First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding firm and square, with a little rubbing and fading to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which is a little faded to the spine and has been reinforced with one strip of paper to the bottom of the rear flap fold and with three strips to the underside. Not price-clipped (8s 6d to the lower front flap).
The tenth Nero Wolfe mystery novel. First published in the US in 1947 by the Viking Press. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).
Stock code: 29925
£100