Cassell & Co 1930. First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 341pp + folding plate at p32, VG (bruising & fraying to spine extrems, two 1cm closed tears to upper & lower spine extrems, fraying to spine/board folds, owner's name in ink crossed out to fep, warden's office stamps crossed out to feps, slight foxing)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 145427
Title: The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
Author: VAN DINE, S. S
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cassell & Co 1930
Keywords: SS Van Dine Philo Vance first edition literature crime fiction murder

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...