The Red Box - Publication History

Publication History

• 1936, The American Magazine, serialized in five issues (December 1936 – April 1937)
• 1937, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, April 15, 1937, hardcover

In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of The Red Box: "Gray cloth, front cover and spine printed with red; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, gray, red and white pictorial dust wrapper … The first edition has the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page."

In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of The Red Box had a value of between $15,000 and $30,000.

• 1937, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937, hardcover
• 1937, London: Cassell, 1937, hardcover
• 1937, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1937, hardcover
• 1943, New York: Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #9,1943, paperback
• 1944, Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Company, The Nero Wolfe Omnibus (with The League of Frightened Men), January 1944, hardcover
• 1957, London: Penguin #1175, 1957, paperback
• 1958, New York: Avon #T-216, 1958, as The Case of the Red Box, paperback
• 1964, New York: Pyramid (Green Door) #R-983, March 1964, paperback
• 1976, London: Severn House, 1976, hardcover
• 1979, New York: Jove #M-5117, July 1979, paperback
• 1992, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-553-24919-3 January 1, 1992, paperback
• 1992, London: Scribners ISBN 0-356-20109-0 1992, hardcover
• 1994, Burlington, Ontario: Durkin Hayes Publishing, DH Audio ISBN 0-88646-377-7, 1994, audio cassette (abridged, read by Saul Rubinek)
• 1995, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-053-X June 1995, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
• 2009, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with The Rubber Band) ISBN 978-0-553-38603-5 February 24, 2009, paperback
• 2011, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 978-0-307-76817-9 August 17, 2011, e-book