The President Vanishes: Rex Stout's First Mystery. de Stout, Rex / Anonymous - 1934

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition with F&R colophon on copyright page. No dust jacket. Fine, bright copy.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. First edition with F&R imprint to CP. Slight rubbing to edges, slight foxing to endpages. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1934. Vintage reprint. Hardcover. Very good. A hardcover book and dustjacket in very good condition. The book itself is near fine - clean, tight, unmarked, and unblemished save for some mild chafing to its spine. The dustjacket is whole and intact with only some mild wear to the top of its spine. An attractive copy! Early Rex Stout novel, published the same year as the first Nero Wolfe mystery. Published under the name of "Anonymous", this is a thriller about the President of the United States being apparently kidnapped. This is a vintage G&D reprint issued in 1934.

Farrar & Rinehart. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo . In very nice unclipped dust jacket . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. . M21 .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1934]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in blue, dark blue topstain; [8],296pp.; photographic frontispiece, 3 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light rubbing to spine ends, else a Near Fine, unfaded copy, albeit lacking the scarce dust jacket. "A fantasy of future politics. When Congress tries to force the nation into a European war, the president disappears and a crisis ensues" (HANNA 2935).

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1934. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo, 296 pages; publisher's red cloth, light off-setting to end papers. Dust jacket with price of $2.00, legible, but partly clipped; tape removed from spine ends. First printing, with Farrar Rinehart logo on copyright page, light off-setting to end papers, light stain in upper margin for first 20 leaves, not affecting text.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, a few chips and bumps at the edges, some creases affecting the lettering on the spine. Red buckram, lightly rubbed, with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. Rex Stout's anonymously published novel about the president's disappearance two hours before delivering a message about America entering the war.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition with F&R colophon on copyright page. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket.