The Red Box
first edition Hardcover
1937 · New York
by Stout, Rex
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. Original gray cloth with red lettering and trim. Spine creased lengthwise, ends frayed with small material loss, 3" x1/2" tear at head of spine has been partially reattached. Cloth on joints worn. Book a little canted. Paste action on endpapers. Top edge red stain, other edges soiled and a little yellowed. FR colophon on copyright page as called for. An early Nero Wolfe mystery; the first Chapter of an ensuing Wolfe mystery "The Rubber Band" appears at the rear.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. (Inventory #: W3204X)