This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/25/2024
STOUT, Rex (1886-1975). The Hand in the Glove. A Dol Bonner Mystery. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. 8vo. [iv], [1]-284 pp. Publisher’s full red cloth, front board and spine stamped in black, publisher’s price-clipped dust jacket (cloth rubbed and soiled, endleaves toned and foxed, ink price stamped on rfep, jacket has two tape repairs on verso of spine, jacket spine toned, soiled, chipped, jacket soiled, creased, somewhat edgeworn with some short marginal tears). Good. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND ONLY DOL BONNER MYSTERY IN THE UNCOMMON DUST JACKET. An early novel with a female detective protagonist. Although this is the only Dol Bonner mystery, she appeared in a few Nero Wolfe novels.