first edition
1973 · New York
by Rex Stout
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm); [xiv], 203pp. Green cloth boards with silver, blue, and red stamping in publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($7.95). Neon green endsheets. Jacket bumped, creased, adn generally soiled with toning to all margins and abrasion on front cover. Boards lightly bumped at extremities with soiling to page edges. Endsheets faded. Lightly soiled throughout, as expected from a cookbook. Brief pencil throughout, including "very good" loin lamb chops on page 90. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. (Inventory #: 31519)