Death of A Doxy - Publication History

Publication History

  • 1966, New York: The Viking Press, August 19, 1966, hardcover
In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Death of a Doxy: "Yellow boards, gray cloth spine; front cover printed with a blue design; spine printed with blue lettering; rear cover blank. Issued in a red, black, and white dust photographic wrapper which has been die cut to reveal the blue printed design on the front cover. … The dust wrapper is noteworthy for its ugliness and the singularly misconceived design element of the pointess die cut."
In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Death of a Doxy had a value of between $100 and $200. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.
  • 1966, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), October 1966, 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).
  • 1966, Toronto Star Weekly, abridged, October 1966
  • 1966, Toronto: Macmillan, 1966, hardcover
  • 1967, London: Collins Crime Club, June 5, 1967, hardcover
  • 1967, Argosy, June 1967 (abridged)
  • 1967, New York: Bantam #F3476, August 1967, paperback
  • 1969, London: Fontana, 1969, paperback
  • 1995, New York: Bantam Crime Line ISBN 0-553-27606-9 October 1995, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by Sandra West Prowell
  • 2002, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-269-9 July 2002, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
  • 2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 978-0-307-75586-5 July 21, 2010, e-book

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