Black Orchids
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
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Synopsis
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6494
- Title
- Black Orchids
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1945
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.