Champagne For One - Publication History

Publication History

  • 1958, New York: The Viking Press, November 24, 1958, hardcover
In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Champagne for One: "Black cloth, front cover and spine printed with purple; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black dust wrapper."
In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Champagne for One had a value of between $200 and $350. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.
  • 1958, London, Ontario: Macmillan, 1958
  • 1959, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), January 1959, hardcover
The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways:
  • The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts).
  • Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions.
  • Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine).
  • 1959, London: Collins Crime Club, September 7, 1959, hardcover
  • 1960, New York: Bantam #A2023, April 1960, paperback
  • 1961, London: Fontana, 1961, paperback
  • 1978, London: Penguin, 1978, paperback
  • 1992, London: Scribners ISBN 0-356-20108-2, 1992, hardcover
  • 1996, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-553-24438-8, 1996, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by Lena Horne
  • 1998, Canada, Durkin Hayes Publishing, DH Audio ISBN 0-88646-456-0 January 1998, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Saul Rubinek)
  • 2006, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-520-5 March 28, 2006, audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
  • 2009, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with Too Many Cooks) ISBN 978-0-553-38629-5 April 28, 2009, trade paperback
  • 2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 978-0-307-75576-6 July 21, 2010, e-book

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