Too Many Cooks. An American Magazine Mystery Novel
[New York]: The American Magazine, 1938. First Edition. Cloth, Box, with Dust Jacket. 12 mo. Very Good / Good. Item #36737
Plain red cloth box designed like a book, containing 36 loose recipe cards, "Wherein vagrant tastes and fugitive flavors are sniffed to their hideouts, fingerprinted and imprisoned in savory dishes -- by that celebrated Nemisis of crooks and envy of cooks, NERO WOLFE, private investigator." Covered in a slightly soiled and chipped dust jacket with the rear flap pasted in manufacture between the rear board and box floor, 11 x 2.5 cm piece missing from rear dust jacket affecting some words in third column of rear blurb, rear jacket flap that overlaps the board slit approx. 7 cm. Otherwise a very good, unusual item.
Price (CAD): $700.00