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

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

Scribners. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth covers are rubbed, worn at extremities. Bright yellow titles to front cover and spine, binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Classic murder mystery, this is the first edition, with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. A solid copy. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. M4 .

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First Tower Books Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G; green, beige and orange pictorial spine with beige text; first Tower Books edition, first printing; dust jacket exterior shows fairly modest wear; rear and flaps slightly toned; some chipping to edges, possibly worm hole to rear head edge; mylar wrap to jacket; previous bookshop's sticker to mylar rear; cloth exterior has very mild wear; good binding; text block has slightly age toned; illustrated with fold-out floor plan; pp 328. 1364036. FP New Rockville Stock.

London : Cassell and Company, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original decorated cloth hardcover, 341 pages, inner hinge weak, name to flyleaf,title page spotted, covers marked, good only. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf N40.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: 328 [9]. FIRST EDITION. Printed dust jacket with an illustration of a telegram on both front and back covers. The original $2.00 price appears on the front flap. Black cloth covered boards with the title and author in yellow. The fore edge is rough cut. A mystery involving a home used as an Egyptian museum and a scarab. There was a 1936 film adaptation. The last pages of the text contain adverts for other Van Dine novels. This is a very good copy with moderate to heavy soiling on the top edge. The jacket has edge wear, a half-inch piece missing from the top, and two smaller chips at the base of the spine.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1930 12mo. original navy cloth gilt (a little rubbed & bumped, qith shallow fraying at extremities, some marking, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, trifling spots, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper); pp. viii, 342 (last blank). A very good copy. The fifth novel featuring Philo Vance, dapper New York society detective.. First UK. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1930]. 8vo. 328 pp. Red cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art of scarab (slight shelfwear, minor closed tear foot of spine), NF/VG-. First Grosset Madison Square edition of this 5th Philo Vance mystery about an art patron found murdered with an Egyptian goddess bust.

1930. First edition. Cassell, London. 1930. Hardback. No DW. Black cloth, gilt. One fold-out illustration. Boards are marked, worn and rubbed, with slight lean. Ownership inscriptions attempted to be erased to front endpaper o/w contents overall are clean and sound.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. [7], ix-xii, [2], 328, [10] (with [5] pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with bright yellow lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with some age toning to the textblock and some noticeable wear to the cloth in a Good+ edge-worn dust jacket with rubbing and a few small chips.

C. Scribner's Sons, 1930. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: xii, 328 p. Size: 20 cm

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson, head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from [signed] S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii, 328, (5, versos only, ads) pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good+ with slight crease to prelims, edge rubbing, in Good+ unclipped dust jacket with some chips, tiny edge tears, and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White (rather than the popular William Powell) as Philo Vance.