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The Canary Murder Case [With Clipped Signature Laid In]
by VAN DINE, S. S. (pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. First printing, in the second state jacket with "The Greene Murder Case" on rear flap. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in green, with jacket; plain endpapers; [ii],[xii],343,[3]pp; 1pp of publisher's ads at rear. With author's signature on separate paper, laid in. Straight, gently rubbed, light spotting to top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped ($2.00), browned at spine, edges, and folds, edges rubbed with multiple short tears, two small spots of dampstaining to verso: around Very Good.
The second Philo Vance novel, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, originally serialized in Scribner's. Basis for the 1929 film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring William Powell and Louise Brooks, originally produced as a silent film and rapidly converted to a talkie. "The 'Canary' is a singer and the evil deed requires a gramophone. How many before and after this have been used?...Here Philo Vance saunters in his usual irritating way, bu the footnotes are not excessive and the Régie cigarettes (a gift from Régie Fortune?) are not too much in evidence." BARZUN & TAYLOR 2117. HUBIN p.414. PENZLER p.17.
The second Philo Vance novel, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, originally serialized in Scribner's. Basis for the 1929 film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring William Powell and Louise Brooks, originally produced as a silent film and rapidly converted to a talkie. "The 'Canary' is a singer and the evil deed requires a gramophone. How many before and after this have been used?...Here Philo Vance saunters in his usual irritating way, bu the footnotes are not excessive and the Régie cigarettes (a gift from Régie Fortune?) are not too much in evidence." BARZUN & TAYLOR 2117. HUBIN p.414. PENZLER p.17.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56964
- Title
- The Canary Murder Case [With Clipped Signature Laid In]
- Author
- VAN DINE, S. S. (pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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Winchester, Virginia
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