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New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-271 [272-280: blank], original brownish-red cloth front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. The ninth Nero Wolfe mystery. Collects two stories, "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." Both stories first published in the American Magazine. "Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" ... The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage — and menagerie — of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment." - Time magazine review, 1 June, 1942. [Reference: Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, C1a].

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo, 271 pages; publsiher's brick-colored cloth; first printing, with Farrar Rinehart logo on copyright page. Dust jacket with $2.00 on front flap, spine slightly faded. Light tape ghost off-set onto end papers, owner name and date on FFEP, bookplate; small check marks by some titles on "Books By Rex Stout" page.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good in Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardback. Originally priced at $2.00/red HB with black lettering on front and spine in illustrated jacket with clear vinyl cover/big chip; 8 vo; 271 pages; Tear at top spine, smaller one at bottom spine/small tear at front top corner .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]., 1942. First edition. First edition. Very good, tight copy in in a bright, unfaded dust jacket, with light professional restoration to edges. A Nero Wolfe double mystery. In Black Orchids trouble comes to Nero when he goes to the Flower Show. In Cordially Invited to Meet Death, Wolfe meets a high-powered social secretary sort of woman, who brings him two anonymous letters. She's afraid she'll lose her business because of the content of the letters--Archie investigates and finds murder. Handsome copy.

"Black Orchids" by Rex Stout1942 - First Edition, First PrintingVintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket8 1/2" x 6"271 PagesThe jacket is in good minus condition with edge wear, chips and rubbing. The jacket is now protected with a removable Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition, free from rips, tears, bends & writing. The end pages are toned. The boards are in good minus condition with light edge wear. The binding is tight and square.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Closed tears in two leaves archivally (and nearly imperceptibly) mended, else nearly fine in a dust jacket with minor wear and tiny chips and tears.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with light wear and tear and a slightly faded spine.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition. Back hinge slightly started; inked “First Edition” inside the front cover; a little cloth fraying; very good in a very good dust jacket with a small archival mend inside the spine, some small chips and minor wear.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. With a TLS on Rex Stout letterhead, signed by Stout. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped but scratched out, generally soiled, faded at the spine, chipped at the edges, a large closed tear on the back panel. Orange cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, black lettering on the spine and front board. Square, hinges loose, clean otherwise. An early collection of two of Stout's Nero Wolfe novellas, "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, 1942, 1942. First Edition. Cloth with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good +. Octavo. Brick-red cloth, black lettering, pp. viii, 271. Housed in a price-clipped dust jacket with chips to the corners and spine ends, slightly rubbed and dust soiled, minute tanning to endpapers, edges dust soiled, previous owner's signature to the first free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a good plus dust jacket.

1943. Collins Crime Club. London. 1943. First edition, UK. Hardback in DW. Boards spotted, spine faded at head and tail, inner hinge visible but holding otherwise a sound copy in price-clipped wrapper that is torn and worn to edges and lacks portions to head and tail of spine and corners

Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First edition (with publisher's colophon on copyright page). Hardbound, black-lettered brown cloth, in good+ condition with previous owner bookplate on front endpaper. Dj flaps have been separated and attached to front pastedown, remainder of dj shows moderate edgewear, free of chips or tears in near very-good condition.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. Two early Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin mysteries - satisfactory! Ex-library with stamps to the end papers and a few spots in the text. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the extremeties. Rear hinge loose, front hinge cracked with the front free end paper missing. The proud previous owners have eagerly stamped their names on the upper edge of the text block and several times on the end papers and throughout the text so you would not easily forget who this book belonged to. Jacket is rubbed with chips and tears, including a 2" tear down the upper front spine fold and across the spine. Spine is sunned, jacket is attached to a stiff paper backing with the flaps glued to the pastedowns. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Poor/Fair. Ex-Library.

FIRST EDITION (British), lacking the dust jacket. The book is good to very good in faded and lightly soiled orange boards. Two novellas, 'Black Orchids' and 'Cordially Invited to Meet Death.'

Four near fine titles in Collier's Front Page Mysteries series. No internal markings. Mild rubbing to boards and minor bumps to corners, otherwise fine condition. A handsome set of mid-20th century murder and crime novels.
Zenith Jones Brown was a prolific mystery author writing under a number of psudonyms including Leslie Ford. Her title, Murder in the P.M. is one of 14 Mrs. Latham and Col. Primrose novels. Cornell Woolrich was another prolific writer of crime and detective fiction which he published under many names, The Phantom Lady, being the first published under the pseudonym William Irish. Many of his stories were made into films including his, It Had to be Murder, which Alfred Hitchcock filmed as Rear Window. Husband and wife team Frances and Richard Lockridge, co-presidents of the Mystery Writers of America were the creators of the acclaimed Mr. and Mrs. North series of books along with the Lt. Heimrich, Nathan Shapiro, and Paul Lane series, totaling more than 60 novels. Rex Stout, a… Read More

Avon Books. New York: Avon Publishing Co. , 1946 first edition . 95 very good -fine, reading crease paperback,

New York: Joseph Meyers / Avon Book Company, 1945. 5.25" wide by 7.5" tall. Original wraps, printed in green, maroon, black, and yellow. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, and unmarked. Tight binding. Text pages (wartime paper) browning, as usual. Cover still bright and shiny. First issue of this digest. Contains a brief Introduction by the "editor-in-chief" Rex Stout, and his photo (see Townsend F6). In all there are 9 stories: BLACK ORCHIDS (complete) by Rex Stout; DEATH AND COMPANY by Dashiell Hammett; FOUR SUSPECTS by Agatha Christie; THE SNAKE by John Steinbeck; IMAGE IN THE MIRROR by Dorothy L. Sayers; SMART GUY (first time in print) by Bruno Fischer; LAWYER'S FEE by H. Felix Valcoe; IN THE LIBRARY by W. W. Jacobs; THE ROUSING OF MR. BRADEGAR by H. F. Heard. "The story [BLACK ORCHIDS] has a superb surprise ending." - Townsend B35d. From chapter 1: "I didn't particularly resent it when Nero Wolfe sent me up there Monday… Read More

Cleveland & New York: A Tower Mystery / World Publishing Company, 1945. First Thus. Cloth . Good/Fair. First printing of Tower Books Mystery. Octavo in heavily edgeworn & chipped dustjacket. Tape 'repairs' and tape residue, Tanning end pages and marginal darkening through text interiors. Tape residue on pastedowns front & rear. Pine green cloth covered boards with light green lettering along spine and stamped light green Tower Mystery colophon. Board edges darkened and worn espcecially top and bottom of spine. Textblock top edge heavily darkened/dust stained with one inch by one half inch stain. [271 pages]

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Printing stated for Tower Books Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket very good or better with only a little wear and tiny loss to sipne foot, else quite nice. Former owner blindstamp to endpaper. Book pages have usual yellowing. First signature a bit loose, but holding, else very good. null A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery: Black Orchids and Cordially Invited to Meet Death. First thus.

Bantam. Collectible - Good. 1982. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. (N33) .