The Father Hunt - Publication History

Publication History

• 1968, New York: Viking, May 28, 1968, hardcover

In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of The Father Hunt: "Red boards, black cloth spine; front and rear covers blank; spine printed with white. Issued in a mainly red pictorial dust wrapper."

In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of The Father Hunt had a value of between $100 and $200. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.

• 1968, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), August 1968, 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).

• 1968, Argosy, November 1968 (abridged)
• 1969, London: Collins Crime Club, March 1969, hardcover
• 1969, New York: Bantam #H4467, June 1969, paperback
• 1970, London: Fontana, 1970, paperback
• 1995, USA, Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76297-4 January 2, 1995, paperback
• 2005, USA, The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-459-4 May 10, 2005, audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
• 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75591-9 May 26, 2010, e-book