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Grosset & Dunlap, NY, c.1935, smaller 8vo., red cloth 333pp., owner's name, yellowed pages, G $

Good+, No Dust Jacket Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition, 1935 8VO, Hardcover Hardcover. Black cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Corners and spine ends frayed. Fore edge foxing. Previous owner's name on inside paste down. Endpapers tanned. Occasional foxing to text. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Mild EX-LIBRARY copy, from the Orange (NJ) Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. NO exterior library markings (spine, covers, and page edges are clean). Minimal interior markings (hospital bookplate and pocket). Inner hinges are perfect. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in gold on the spine and front cover. Attached to the front endpaper is the inner flap from the book's dust jacket (not price clipped: $2.00). First printing, with MCMXXXV on the title page, and the Scribner "A" and seal on the copyright page. Complete with the "Rivermont Park" foldout racing chart. From the dust jacket: "The background of this new Van Dine murder case is horse-racing, with fascinating details of the 'hay burners,' book-makers, pari-mutuel betting, jockeys, handicapping, and the history and gossip of the race track... Philo Vance, who is present at the time, 'playing the ponies' with a group of sportsmen, hears the shot,… Read More

Cassell & Co Ltd, London, 1937. Second edition,. 1937. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 270pp, flyleaf removed, pages browning and scattered foxing, text otherwise clean and sound, red cloth, black titles, spine faded, Good / no dustwrapper .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Garden Murder Case (a Philo Vance Detective Story).

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. 8vo. 332 pp. Red cloth, blk lettering (light uniform interior toning as usual w/ Wartime paper), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head of spine, small closed tear, edgewear), VG/VG- copy. Reprint edition of this Philo Vance mystery set in a New York skyscraper, and horse racing. Served as the basis for the 1936 movie starring Edmund Lowe as Philo Vance.

Paperback / softback. New.

Cassell & Co 1935. First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, VG- (amateur tape repair to spine, bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, staining to rear board upper edge, owner's name to front pastedown heavily crossed out, book title handwritten in ink verso half-title page, foxing, some pencil annotation)

332+[viii ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth in original jacket. (firsts Volume 14, number 9 page 31) First edition.Garden marked the return to the original design for the dust wrappers, without any graphics added to the standard index card layout. Here the card is in gold and the front and back panels, and the front and spine of the book's cover are also stamped in gold. Floyd, the son of Professor Garden, invites his socialite friends to the rooftop garden of his father's New York penthouse to listen to the outcome of horse races. Detective Philo Vance receives an anonymous telephone message inviting him to one of Floyd's gatherings. On that particular night, Floyd's best friend has placed an enormous bet on a horse named Equanimity. Once it is announced that Equanimity has lost the race, a gunshot is heard and Floyd's friend is found dead of a gunshot wound. Though initially thought to be a suicide, Detective Vance deems the death a… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7], 7-332, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine. Attractive Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear and a few hints of rubbing.

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 8" by 5.5". None. The first U.K. edition of this exciting Philo Vance case, presented in a scarce dust wrapper. This is the ninth of twelve books writing featuring Van Dine's sleuth Philo Vance, set after Vance has been invited to a gathering following the horse races.S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of art critic Willard Huntington Wright, used due to his embarrassment at producing mass market fiction. Under the name, he quickly became one of the best-selling authors in the United States, although he had been unmasked by 1928. The first British edition; this work was first published by Scribner's the U.S.A.Complete with a scarce and unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper has loss to the head and particularly the tail of the spine,… Read More

332+[viii ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth in original jacket. Inscription to front end paper. (Firsts Volume 14, number 9 page 31) First edition. Garden marked the return to the original design for the dust wrappers, without any graphics added to the standard index card layout. Here the card is in gold and the front and back panels, and the front and spine of the book's cover are also stamped in gold. Floyd, the son of Professor Garden, invites his socialite friends to the rooftop garden of his father's New York penthouse to listen to the outcome of horse races. Detective Philo Vance receives an anonymous telephone message inviting him to one of Floyd's gatherings. On that particular night, Floyd's best friend has placed an enormous bet on a horse named Equanimity. Once it is announced that Equanimity has lost the race, a gunshot is heard and Floyd's friend is found dead of a gunshot wound. Though initially thought to be a suicide,… Read More