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Too Many Cooks
by Stout, Rex
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- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Second printing. Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp, Fine copy of the book with the last twelve leaves, the recipes, printed on fine blue paper stock. In a bright dust jacket with a few short tears and color added to the spine ends and corners, but a very attractive example nonetheless. "Second Large Printing" on the front flap of the dust jacket, no publisher's logo on the copyright page.
Selling over 45 million copies and being translated into 22 different languages, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective series was undoubtedly successful and has been praised for its intelligent organization and rich development. The New York Times praised Stout for his "smooth concoction of crime and cooking," an original and tantalizing novel that attracted a broad audience with its inclusion of crime-related recipes. Too Many Cooks remains one of the more finely crafted installments of the Nero Wolfe detective series. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Selling over 45 million copies and being translated into 22 different languages, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective series was undoubtedly successful and has been praised for its intelligent organization and rich development. The New York Times praised Stout for his "smooth concoction of crime and cooking," an original and tantalizing novel that attracted a broad audience with its inclusion of crime-related recipes. Too Many Cooks remains one of the more finely crafted installments of the Nero Wolfe detective series. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Too Many Cooks is the fifth Nero Wolfe detective novel by American mystery writer Rex Stout. The story was serialized in The American Magazine (March–August 1938) before its publication in book form in 1938 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The novel was collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces, published in 1969 by the Viking Press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1476
- Title
- Too Many Cooks
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life.
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