Books

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1/4" spine head tear with chipping, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the "notoriously rare" first edition of Fer-de-Lance: "Black cloth, front cover and spine stamped with gold lettering; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, pink and green pictorial dust wrapper … As is true of all the Nero Wolfe novels published by Farrar & Rinehart, the first edition may be identified by the appearance of the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page. If no logo appears on the copyright page the book is a later printing." Hard-to-find First Edition, First Printing of the first Nero Wolfe mystery.; 313 pages .