Rex Stout | The Rubber Band, 1936

Rex Stout

The Rubber Band. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1936

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original cyan cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, some minor browning and spotting, embossed address on front free endpaper, head and foot of spine bumped, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss

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:

A.D.G. Allen (bookplate); The Alexis Galanos Collection