Search Results: the bishop murder case a philo by ss van dine

Fawcett Gold Medal Books, January 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy. Pages yellowing from age.

New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1929. Black boards have discolored at all edges, spine is sunned. Pages have tanned. Text is clean & unmarked, binding is shaky.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket,. New York: Grosset and Dunlap:, 1929. Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket, 349 pp.<br/> Clean, straight and tight. Text block toned at extremities.

Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1957. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0.

P.F. Collier, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Faint wear to the gray decorated covers; a little bit of wear and small chipping at the spine tips; pages toned; tight square binding; very good shape. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 161736. .

Fawcett Gold Medal Books. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. #T2140. (Fiction, Mystery, Suspense) 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.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Photoplay edition. No jacket. Rear board soiled, pencil underlining and marginalia, pencil names on front endpapers. 1929 Hard Cover. viii, 349 pp. After solving the Greene murders, Philo Vance has taken a well-earned holiday in Switzerland. Returning to New York City he finds his old chum, District Attorney Anthony Markham, up against a bizarre series of murders inspired by children’s nursery rhymes. The first murder, involving a beautiful young woman and a private archery range, was apparently based on “Who Killed Cock Robin'”; it is followed by more hideous deaths referencing “Mother Goose.” But Philo Vance is not a man to be fobbed off with points to juvenilia. Markham and his colleagues may be worried that a certain Mr. H. Dumpty is riding for a great fall, but Philo Vance suspects a connection to a rather more… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good minus hardcover. Later printing. Book rubbed at spine ends and bumped corners, soiled cover and foredges, pages browned with heavier browning at edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Very Good. Later. Very good Clean text is aging, clean cloth covers are slightly worn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, c.1929, 8vo., black cloth, 349pp., folding maps & photos., nicked spine caps, corner of ep clipped, fair, $

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 349pp. Embossed black cloth, green stamp lettering. The head of the spine has a tear. Shelf wear. Text is clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall O6 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1929.

N Y: P.F. Collier & Son, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Gray leatherette cover with red spider web design on front and spine. 350 pages. 5 1/8""w x 7 5/8""h.

P.F. Collier. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket. (Fiction, Philo Vance, 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.

New York: Scribners, 1929 First Edition. A Philo Vance mystery. Scribner seal on copyright page. Black cloth stamped in blue. viii, 349pp. Three pages of ads at back. Page foredges uncut. Clean. Tight. Small bookplate on front pastedown. A few fox spots on page foredges. no jacket. Very good condition..

New York: Charles Scribner, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. pp., viii, 349 (3) pp of pub's adverts., spine is faded, some marks and soil to covers, Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: Scribners, 1929 First Edition. A Philo Vance mystery. Scribner seal on copyright page. Black cloth stamped in blue. viii, 349pp. Three pages of ads at back. Top page edges stained grey. Page foredges uncut. Small bookplate and name onflyleaf. Square. Clean. Tight. no jacket. Very good condition..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1929. First Illustrated Photoplay MGM Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good Plus. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2"), black cloth with yellow lettering on spine and cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a skeletal hand holding a red bishop chess piece; PHOTOPLAY EDITION illustrated with photographs from the MGM film starring Basil Rathbone and Leile Hyams with B&W frontispiece, 3 full-page stills from the movie & 2 fold-outs: 1 map & 1 layout of a crime scene; 349 pages + [9] Pages of Publisher's Ads for G&D books. Fourth Philo Vance mystery in which the detective solves a crime committed by the "Bishop" by solving clues based upon Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Published in the same year--1929--as the Scribner's edition.<br /> <br /> "S.S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (1888 - 1939), a U.S art critic and author of murder mysteries. He created the… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First printing of this omnibus edition reprinting three Van Dine mysteries. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in green. Fine, tiny bump to the lower front tip. In gthe scarce original dust jacket, very good, bright, with wear and shalloow chipping head of spine, bit of wear to the other extremities.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped; there is a pencilled name and penned address to the first fly; little wear overall. Bound in black cloth, with green title lettering. "Illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all talking picture." 349 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

NY: SCRIBNERS.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in price clipped, otherwise very good+ dust jacket. (Vintage bookshop sticker at head of rear paste down. A few edge tears & light shelf wear to jacket. Covers mildly shelf-soiled) .