And Be a Villain
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Gray buckram with red topstain. The top corners are bumped. Offsetting to the endpapers, and an ownership signature to the front pastedown endpaper. The dust jacket spine is sunned, with modest paper loss to the edges and spine. Rubbing to the front fold. Publisher's price of $2.50 to the front flap. A Nero Wolfe mystery that introduces Wolfe's nemesis, Arnold Zeck. TOWNSEND A29. ; 216 pages .
Synopsis
And Be a Villain (British title More Deaths Than One) is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1948. The story was collected in the omnibus volumes Full House (Viking 1961) and Triple Zeck (Viking 1974).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26612
- Title
- And Be a Villain
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Eyes: Male;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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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....
- Buckram
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...