James Bond First Editions

Murder In Style [Plot it Yourself].

STOUT, Rex (1886-1975).

London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1960. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Text leaves clean, edges uniformly tanned, library marks and label to endpapers (no stamps to text leaves), jacket particularly fresh. Another case for the eccentric oversized New York armchair detective Nero Wolfe, published as 'Plot it Yourself' in America. The mysteries of Rex Stout were cited as an influence by thriller writer Ian Fleming, being mentioned by name in the James Bond novels (read by 007 and frowned upon by M). Item #74242

Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction pp.277-281. Gilbert, p.624.

Price: £35.00