Too Many Cooks
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, with lean to spine, spine cloth faded and with a small spot, light scuffing to rear board, faint water-spot to topstain, previous owner name in ink to front free end paper, end sheets offset from binder's glue, vintage bookseller label to rear paste down, several pages at rear roughly opened and worn along their edge, lacking the rare dust jacket. A rather nice copy of the acclaimed gastronomical mystery, with 21 pages of recipes at the rear.
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
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160524006
- Title
- Too Many Cooks
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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