Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 175. Rex Stout | Over My Dead Body, 1940.

Rex Stout | Over My Dead Body, 1940

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