Rex Stout Booth Tarkington (7 results)

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover by Frances Tipton Hunter (illustrator). First Edition. The September 16, 1939 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably part 5 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes Don't Sell it, Mr Rumbin, a short story by Booth Tarkington (9/16). Also contains an article (Faster than a Bullet by H Lloyd Child) on an airplane setting a speed record of over 600 MPH. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (9/16 - Growing Boy). Light wear at the edges & some mild soiling to some of the covers. A very good issue with a nice Rex Stout serial installment.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Cover by Frances Tipton Hunter (illustrator). First Edition. The August 19 & September 16, 1939 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1 & 5 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes A Salmon for the White House, a short story by Arthur Train (8/19) and Don't Sell it, Mr Rumbin, a short story by Booth Tarkington (9/16). There is also an an article about baseball HoF player/manager Leo Durocher (8/19 - Baseball's Ugly Duckling - the Durable Durocher) by Arthur Mann. Contains a Westinghouse ad featuring the 1939 NY World's Fair. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 - Penny Candy & 9/16 - Growing Boy). Light wear at the edges & some mild soiling to the cover. Back covers are missing (8/19) and present but loose (9/16). A good to very good set with nice Rex Stout serial installments.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Andrew Loomis (cover - 6/15), Edgar Franklin Wittmack (cover - 6/29), Rico Tomaso (The Frightened Men), Ralph Pallen Coleman (Bridewater's Half Dollar), Arthur William Brown (Dreamland) (illustrator). First Edition. The June 15 & 29, 1935 issues of the Saturday Evening Post containing parts 1 & 3 of 6 of The Frightened Men (The League of Frightened Men), the second Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout. Precedes book publication. Additional fiction includes Little Feet, a poem by Ogden Nash (6/15), Bridewater's Half Dollar, a short story by Booth Tarkington (6/15), The Next Champion, an article on boxing by Jack Dempsey with Wesley Stout (6/29), and parts 4 & 6 of 6 of Dreamland, a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland. Cover art by Andrew Loomis (6/15 - Woman in Yellow) & Edgar Franklin Wittmack (6/29 - Bronco Buster on Butt). Condition issues include: 6/15 - light wear and soiling to the edges, a small chip out of the upper left of the front cover at the spine, a couple of pages with small closed tears to the fore edge, and some soil spots on others; 6/29 - light soiling to the front cover with some small chips to the fore edge, a small chip to the upper right of the front cover through page 4, and light edge wear to the rear cover. Overall a very good set with installments of an early Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe novel. A heavy, oversize set that may require additional postage.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Covers by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 & 9/16), Charles E. Kerlee (8/26), McCauley Conner (9/9), Crosby DeMoss (9/23) & Monte Crews (9/30) (illustrator). First Edition. The August 19 & 26, & September 9, 16, 23, & 30, 1939 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1, 2 & 4 through 7 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes A Salmon for the White House, a short story by Arthur Train (8/19), Don't Sell it, Mr Rumbin, a short story by Booth Tarkington (9/16), Henry and the Gold Mine, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (9/23), and part 1 of 7 of Don't Ask Questions, a novel by J P Marquand (9/30). Some of the issues contain ads featuring the 1939 NY World's Fair. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 - Penny Candy & 9/16 - Growing Boy), Charles E. Kerlee (8/26 - Bicycling Beauty), McCauley Conner (9/9 - Bus Fare), Crosby DeMoss (9/23 - Hitchhiking to State U.), & Monte Crews (9/30 - First in Line for Tickets). Light wear at the edges & some mild soiling to some of the covers. A very good group with a nice set of Rex Stout serial installments. A heavy, oversize lot that will require additional postage.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Maurice Bowe, R.J. Cavaliere, Anton Otto Fischer, & W.H.D. Koerner (covers), and Rico Tomaso, F R Gruger, Anton Otto Fischer, John La Gatta, Henry Raleigh, and others (illustrator). First Edition. The February 29, March 14 & 21, & April 4, 1936 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Contains most notably parts 1, 3, 4 & 6 (conclusion) of 6 of Stout's 3rd Nero Wolfe novel, the Rubber Band. Precedes book publication. Other fiction includes: parts 4 & 6 (conclusion) of 6 (2/29 & 3/14) of Thank You, Mr Moto, a novel by J P Marquand; parts 1 & 3 of 6 (3/21 & 4/4 ) of Men are Such Fools, a novel by Faith Baldwin; part 1 of 2 (4/4) of Souvenir of Trenton, a novella by George Bradshaw; Mr Rumbin's De Rooster (2/29) & Henry the Great (3/14), short stories by Booth Tarkington; Way up Nawth in Dixie (2/29), an ethnic comedy by Octavus Roy Cohen; Hang it on the Horn (3/21), a short story by J P Marquand; and To Bargain, Toboggan, To-Whoo! (2/29), Half a Century of Women (3/14), and Dear Godmother; I Hope She Bruises Easy! (4/4), poems by Ogden Nash. Articles include The One and Only Rube [Waddell] (3/14), and The Bad Old Days (4/4) by Connie Mack. Cover art by Maurice Bower (2/29 - Eskimo and Dog Sled), R.J. Cavaliere (3/14 - Flamenco Dancer in Red), Anton Otto Fischer (3/21 - Wave Breaks over Steamer) & W.H.D. Koerner (4/4 - Dancing Warrior). Condition ranges from good to very good. The most significant condition issues are faint damp staining, light bleed & rippling to the corners - bottom left & upper right of 2/29 and upper right of 4/4. The covers on the 3/14 issue are loose and only attached to each other by a 4" strip. Other light edge wear. A good to very good example of a hard to find set of serial installments of an early Nero Wolfe novel. A heavy, oversize lot that may require additional postage.

First Edition. *** MEET TECUMSEH FOX *** IN THIS TRUE FIRST EDITION OF DOUBLE FOR DEATH in The Saturday Evening Post from August 19th thru September 30th, 1939, first edition, 7 volumes complete, a vg/ vg+ to near fine set in full color pictorial wraps of this title with one boasting a Rockwell cover. The first appearance in print of Tecumseh Fox published well before the book was released.

First Edition. THE RUBBER BAND in Saturday Evening Post from 2-29-1936 through 4-4-1936, first edition, 6 volumes complete, all in full color pictorial wraps (one having a Norman Rockwell cover) an occasional light stain to the spine or slight wear, but all issues are vg+ and/or better copies. Also contains the original work of Booth Tarkington, Connie Mack, J. P. Marquand (3 installments of the the second Mr. Moto novel), A.S.W. Rosenbach, et.al. The true first edition of this, the 3rd Nero Wolfe title. Rare thus and much more difficult to locate than the most definitely later book format. Perhaps your only chance to procure this scarce offering.