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Scribners, 1984 First Scribners printing in Very Good condition. A Philo Vance Mystery.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Simon & Schuster. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Simon & Schuster. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

World Publishing Company, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bantam Books, 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. lightly reading creased, prev. owner's stamp on front endpaper, pages toned, 1 inch tears to bottom of spine

Felony & Mayhem Press, September 2019. Paper Back . 4.1 PB extra nice +5%.

Bantam Books. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. , 1947 first edition . 96 very good paperback,

Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: Graphic Publishing, 1954. First Paperback Edition . Mass Market. Very Good. 191 Pages. Graphic #89 Abridged Edition. A tight square book with red page edges. Wrap-A-Round cover with red and pale yellow lettering with keyhole cover art of a brunette looking at a guy holding a dagger. The Scarab Murder Case is fifth in Van Dine's Philo Vance novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926 Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for… Read More

Grosset and Dunlap. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket. (mystery, thriller, suspense)

graphic book, , (Reprints Bantam 96), . 89, very good , creases mystery novel, paperback,

Cassell and Company Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1934. Cheap Edition. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Binding remains reasonably firm but text block is held on by the end papers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's pencil inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Top edge of text block is dust marked.

Bantam, 1947. Softcover. Fine. #96

First Tower edition first printing of the fifth novel in the Philo Vance series. Light edge wear. The first free end page has a inch long moisture stain long the top edge. It does not effect any other pages. There is a letter D rubber stamped on the base of the book. In very good / very good condition.

World Publishing Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Detectives, Mystery) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Cassell, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. 340 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

graphic book, , (Reprints Bantam 96), . 89, very good -fine, reading crease mystery novel, paperback,

New York, NY, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Good Minus. FIRST EDITION. Faded yellow lettering on the spine. The corners, top and base of the spine are frayed. The front hinge is torn but the webbing is intact. 328 pages plus five pages of advertisements. 01

New York, NY, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket. FIRST EDITION. Faded yellow lettering on the spine. The corners, top and base of the spine are frayed. The fold out illustration at page 26 is present, 328 pages plus five pages of advertisements. 01

328+[2 ad] pages with fold out illustration. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover. Lacks the "A" on the title verso. Early printing. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930s. These stories were used as the basis for a series… Read More

scribner, 1984 first edition . fine, name stamp inside paperback,