Too Many Cooks - Publication History

Publication History

  • 1938, The American Magazine, serialized in six issues (March–August 1938)
  • 1938, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, August 17, 1938, hardcover
In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Too Many Cooks: "Red cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank. Issued in a full-color pictorial dust wrapper … The first edition has the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page. The second printing, in October 1938, is identical to the first except that the logo was dropped."
In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Too Many Cooks had a value of between $2,500 and $5,000.
  • 1938, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938, hardcover
  • 1939, London: Collins Crime Club, September 12, 1938, hardcover
  • 1940, New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1940, hardcover
  • 1941, New York: Triangle #180, June 1941, hardcover
  • 1941, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1941, hardcover
  • 1944, New York: Dell (mapback by Gerald Gregg) #45, 1944, paperback; new edition (with new mapback by Robert Stanley) #540, 1951, paperback
  • New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, Jonathan Press #J-2, not dated, abridged, paperback
  • 1951, London: Pan, 1951, paperback
  • 1963, New York: Pyramid (Green Door) #R-894, August 1963, paperback with second and third printings in the same format in June 1966 and May 1968 respectively.
  • 1969, New York: The Viking Press, Kings Full of Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus (with Plot It Yourself and Triple Jeopardy), January 28, 1969, hardcover
  • 1972, London: Fontana, 1972, paperback
  • 1973, London: Tom Stacey, 1973, hardcover
  • 1976, New York: Garland, Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900–1950, #45, 1976, hardcover
  • 1979, New York: Jove #M4866, February 1979, paperback
  • 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76306-7 November 1995, trade paperback
  • 2004, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-392-X May 2004, audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
  • 2009, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with Champagne for One) ISBN 978-0-553-38629-5 April 28, 2009, trade paperback
  • 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75627-5 July 21, 2010, e-book

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