Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Lot Closed
February 4, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Rex Stout
Over My Dead Body. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue green cloth lettered in blue, DUST-JACKET, labels removed from front fixed endpaper and rear endpapers, occasional spotting, binding slightly soiled, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss and tears
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series is, in the opinion of Guy M. Townsend, "the most outstanding achievement in the mystery field in the post-Holmes era" (see Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980)).
PROVENANCE:
The Alexis Galanos Collection