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TOO MANY COOKS
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Mild age toning to paste downs from binders glue degradation, small chips to upper and lower edges with chips and loss to spine
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1938]. First edition. Mild age toning to paste downs from binders glue degradation, small chips to upper and lower edges with chips and loss to spine ends, spine panel with some color fade, front panel bright. (20294). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-278 [279] [280-282: blank] [281-304: printed on blue paper: Recipes...(note pagination correct)], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. Nero leaves home to attend a meeting of great chefs hoping to obtain a secret recipe. Considered one of the best in the series. "The plotting in TOO MANY COOKS is tight, and the suspects interesting and varied..." and "Wolfe...delivers a superb talk on the subject of the elimination of racial prejudice...TOO MANY COOKS is at once a mystery of its age and a book ahead of its time." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 755-57. "The masterpiece among three or four by Stout that deserve that name." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 3093.
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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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20294
- Title
- TOO MANY COOKS
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - Mild age toning to paste downs from binders glue degradation, small chips to upper and lower edges with chips and loss to spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- [1938]
- Keywords
- Mystery
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2017
Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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