Stout, Rex (editor).

Eat Drink and Be Buried. 20 Superlative Stories Selected by Rex Stout.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

Octavo, 246 pages. First edition. With contributions by Anthony, Boucher, Lawrence Blochman, Ellery Queen, John D. MacDonald and others. According to the dust jacket copy, "food and drink figure prominently in the decline and falling dead of many people with whom the stories deal." A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with just a few small chips to the edges. Somewhat scarce in dust jacket.