Rex Stout | Some Buried Caesar, 1939

Rex Stout

Some Buried Caesar. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1939

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, slight browning to endpapers, head and foot of spine slightly bumped, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some 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:

Ada Thatcher Huntzinger (bookplate); The Alexis Galanos Collection