Publication history Some Buried Caesar

the second of 3 nero wolfe volumes issued dell mapback, red bull featured scene-of-the-crime map gerald gregg on cover (dell #70, january 1945).



1938, american magazine, december 1938, abridged red bull
1939, new york: farrar & rinehart, february 2, 1939, hardcover


in limited-edition pamphlet, collecting mystery fiction #9, rex stout s nero wolfe part i, otto penzler describes first edition of buried caesar: green cloth, front cover , spine printed black; rear cover blank. issued in full-color pictorial dust wrapper … first edition has publisher s monogram logo on copyright page. second printing, in march 1939, identical first except logo dropped.
in april 2006, firsts: book collector s magazine estimated first edition of buried caesar had value of between $2,500 , $5,000.


1939, toronto: oxford university press, 1939, hardcover
1939, london: collins crime club, july 3, 1939, hardcover
1940, new york: grossett , dunlap, 1940, hardcover
1941, new york: triangle, october 1941, hardcover
1945, new york: dell (mapback gerald gregg) #70, january 1945, red bull: nero wolfe story, paperback
1958, new york: viking press, aces: nero wolfe omnibus (with many women , trouble in triplicate), may 15, 1958, hardcover
1963, new york: pyramid (green door) #r931, november 1963, paperback
1972, london: tom stacey, 1972, hardcover
1994, new york: bantam crimeline isbn 0-553-25464-2 june 1994, paperback, rex stout library edition introduction diane mott davidson
1998, auburn, california: audio partners publishing corp., mystery masters isbn 1-57270-054-8 august 1998, audio cassette (unabridged, read michael prichard)
2008, new york: bantam dell publishing group (with golden spiders) isbn 0-553-38567-4 september 30, 2008, trade paperback
2010, new york: bantam crimeline isbn 978-0-307-75619-0 september 8, 2010, e-book




^ townsend, guy m., rex stout: annotated primary , secondary bibliography (1980, new york: garland publishing; isbn 0-8240-9479-4), pp. 15–16. john mcaleer, judson sapp , arriean schemer associate editors of definitive publication history.
^ penzler, otto, collecting mystery fiction #9, rex stout s nero wolfe part (2001, new york: mysterious bookshop, limited edition of 250 copies), pp. 14–15
^ smiley, robin h., rex stout: checklist of primary first editions. firsts: book collector s magazine (volume 16, number 4), april 2006, p. 32