[Rarebooks] fa: Two REX STOUT 1st Editions - VINCENT STARRETT's Copies

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

A couple of Stoutly Starrettish items on eBay now, ending Sunday, April 
8... They can be found at the URL below or by searching under the 
seller name arch_in_la.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarch_in_laQQhtZ-1

Cheers,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


REX STOUT: Over My Dead Body. A Nero Wolfe Mystery NY: Farrar & 
Rinehart, (1940). First Edition (with the publisher's colophon on the 
copyright page). VINCENT STARRETT'S COPY, with his distinctive Sherlock 
Holmes bookplate on the front paste-down and his signature on the 
half-title. Hardcover 8vo; turquoise cloth-covered boards stamped in 
dark blue; top page edges red; 293 pp., with a 3-page excerpt at the 
rear from Stout's previous Nero Wolfe title, Some Buried Caesar...

REX STOUT: Too Many Cooks. An American Magazine Mystery Novel. [N.p.] 
American Magazine, March 1938. First (and only?) Edition. A clamshell 
box in the guise of a book, containing a menu for "The American 
Magazine Living Issue Luncheon," and dozens of recipe cards for dishes 
"prepared by Rex Stout for the Epicures of Advertising, from the 
favorite recipes of his famous character, Nero Wolfe." VINCENT 
STARRETT'S COPY with his signature and date on the verso of the 
tipped-in title page. A promotional tie-in for Stout's novel of the 
same name, his fifth Nero Wolfe mystery and considered one of his 
best...

Uncommon Wolfe-ian items, these copies being uniquely desirable for 
their association with two of the major figures in 20th-century 
detective fiction: Rex Stout, prolific author of close to fifty Nero 
Wolfe novels and numerous stories and other works; and Vincent 
Starrett, novelist, bibliographer, and arguably the greatest — 
certainly the most famous — of all Sherlock Holmes scholars (The 
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, etc.). Stout was a respected 
Sherlockian himself, contributing (along with Starrett, of course) to 
The Baker Street Reader and other collections.