The Silent Speaker
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 308 p. 21 cm. Sound binding in cloth-covered boards. Slightly cocked. Minor wear to edges and boards, with tail of spine a little crinkled. Gift inscription on the front pastedown endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with toning and a hint of mustiness. Dust jacket has wear to the edges, including tiny tears and creases. The spine ends are chipped. It is not price clipped. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. .
Synopsis
The Silent Speaker is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1946. It was published just after World War II, and key plot elements reflect the lingering effects of the war: housing shortages and restrictions on consumer goods, including government regulation of prices. The Silent Speaker was Stout's first full-length Nero Wolfe novel since Where There's a Will in 1940.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6443
- Title
- The Silent Speaker
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...