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SOME BURIED CAESAR
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold edge, 16 mm closed tear to the upper f
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1939]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold edge, 16 mm closed tear to the upper front panel with crease, mild shelf wear to spine ends and a small sliver chip at lower left front corner at spine fold. A bright copy. (23377). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-296 [297-299: excerpt for TOO MANY COOKS] [300-304: blank], original light green cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained light green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. The sixth Nero Wolfe mystery novel. First published in The American Magazine in a condensed version as "The Red Bull." "To a large extent, CAESAR is Archie's case, the type of book that inspired Howard Haycraft to call Archie 'the one example in history...of a Watson who steals the play from his Holmes, and a first-rate HOLMES to boot'" - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 755-756. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, A18b.
Synopsis
Some Buried Caesar is the sixth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine (December 1938), under the title "The Red Bull. " It was first published in book form by Farrar & Rinehart in 1939. The novel is included in the omnibus volume All Aces, published in 1958 by the Viking Press.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23377
- Title
- SOME BURIED CAESAR
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold edge, 16 mm closed tear to the upper f
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- [1939]
- Keywords
- Mystery
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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