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New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 305pp. Red cloth stamped in black on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained blue. Very mild fading to spine panel. A near fine copy. ; Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1933. Vintage reprint. Hardcover. Very good. A hardcover book and dustjacket in very good condition. The book itself is near fine - clean, tight, unmarked save for an old gift inscription dated 1934. The dustjacket is clean and bright but lacks a 1x2 inch chip off the lower left of the back panel. Early Rex Stout novel, published a year before the first Nero Wolfe mystery. Stout's second book, this is a psychological thriller set in Montana. This is a vintage G&D reprint issued in 1933, the same year as the first edition.

Farrar & RINEHART Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DUST JACKET NOT RESTORED.

London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. While the UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity, this proof likely the only surviving copy. Found in the author's attic after his death. Very Good in brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and tight with a few creases to the spine panel. Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box.

London: Faber and Faber, 1934. A first edition, first printing published by Faber and Faber in 1934. A near fine book with inscriptions, in a clipped unrestored wrapper which has a chip to the head of the spine and a small one to the foot of the front panel. Repaired tear to the rear panel. Some chipping to the corners. Scarce third book by the renowned crime master. Exceptionally rare in the period wrapper.