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Pages 348 pp.8vo. Green cloth binding. Reprint. Lacks jacket. Some cover soil and frayed edges. Paper acidic brown. Bookplate. Inner hinges starting. Reading copy only.

A. L. Burt Company. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (murder, mystery, private investigators) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

The Benson Murder Case (American Mystery Classics) by S.S. Van Dine
All of Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is discovered dead in a locked room in his brownstone mansion, slumped over in an easy chair with a bullet in his head. Ballistics experts, detectives, and the NYPD's top brass can't solve the crime, but luckily they don't have to: New York's leading flaneur and art connoisseur, Philo Vance, is on the case, and he's got precisely the far-flung and esoteric knowledge needed to interpret the clues and determine whodunnit.
By carefully examining the crime scene and reconstructing the deadly shooting, Vance determines a number of things about the murderer, including his or her height -- and this is only the first of many deductive feats that he will pull off before the investigation comes to a close.
The first novel in one of the most influential detective series of the early twentieth century, The Benson Murder Case features a brain sleuth, a puzzling plot, and… Read More

The Franklin Library, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Franklin Library, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Gilded page edges, clean and unmarked. All pages are intact and binding is tight, with hubbed spine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Franklin Library, 1990-01-01. First THUS. Leather Bound . Very Good. 8x6x1. Leather Bound Edition with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering & decorations with minor shelf wear. All edge gilt lightly scuffed & scratched. Text and images unmarked.

The Franklin Library, 1990-01-01. First THUS. Leather_bound. Very Good/No dustjacket as issued. 8x6x1. Leather Bound Edition with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering & decorations with minor shelf wear. All edge gilt lightly scuffed & scratched. Text and images unmarked.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1926. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reissue. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, some loss from gilt on spine and front board titles. 1926 Hard Cover. 348 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Author's first book. "S.S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939), a U.S art critic and author. He created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio...Philo Vance is a fictional character who starred in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine (who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books… Read More

Gregg Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. . First THUS, stated. Dust wear to jacket spine, light shelf wear. Foxing to top of textblock ONLY. Otherwise VG. Pages/boards/jacket clean, binding sturdy.

New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Good+. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, NY 1938. 348 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 6158 6158

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Book. Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black cloth hardcover with red lettering to spine and front; same date on title and copyright pages; no jacket. Good minus condition: spine sunned; extremity wear with some loss of cloth; straight; hinges strong; previous owner was a cigar smoker and the smell might linger. New plastic protective jacket. This is the first of the Philo Vance novels..

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 5 1/2" X 7 1/2," 348 pages. Gift inscription on ffep. Black boards with red lettering which are soiled. Spine canted. Spine ends and corners bumped and worn. Some edge-wear. Small indentation on rear board.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Lacks jacket. Two light creased down front board, spine faded, ink initials and date on endpapers. 1926 Hard Cover. 348 pp. Black cloth , red titles. Author's first book. "S.S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939), a U.S art critic and author. He created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio...Philo Vance is a fictional character who starred in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine (who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson… Read More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1990. Special Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Covered in purple leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, gilt design on covers and all edges gilt with decorated endpapers. Frontspiece illustration by Kent Barton specially commissioned for this edition. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces Series. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 293 pp .

London: The Readers Library Publishing Company (Duckworth). Photoplay Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 251(2)pp. Beautiful "Copyright" Edition. Not dated but c. 1927. Bound in maroon cloth with titles in gilt and decorative borders also in gilt on front board and spine. The Readers Library was an imprint of Gerald Duckworth and Company, reprinting classics from between 1910 and 1927, re-launching as the New Readers Library in 1927 and publishing through 1946. Though notoriously flimsily made, this copy is square, tight and clean throughout with virtually none of the page toning typically found. A hint of wear to heel and the gilt is largely faded on the spine. Paper just starting to split in the gutter of the front paste-down but no cracking to hinge. Gorgeous wrap-around dustjacket has some toning to spine but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved and quite scarce in any condition. A sharp collectable copy and quite uncommon, particularly… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition, with no additional printings listed and Scribner's seal to copyright (predates Scribner's "A" designation). Octavo; xii, [ii], 348pp. Publisher's black cloth with red lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Boards rubbed along edges with exposure and bumping at corners, scuffs down hinges and fore-edge, and a fair bit of smudging and soiling to cloth. Front board shows a run down front pastedown as if a bend was beginning, but there is no correspondence externally. Hinges starting, with front moreso, and book falls open easily between gatherings, but binding is still holding. Spine a bit slanted, with a vertical crease and dulling to lettering. Pages toned but unmarked. A rough but intact copy of the first Philo Vance mystery. Barzun offers that it is also the best of Van Dine's offerings, "partly because V.D. had the real-life model of the Joseph Elwell murder (1920) to hold his fancy in check."… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 [1936 or later]. Reprint. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Bookplate; very good in a dust jacket with minor wear and tear.

New York: Scribner’s, 1926. First Edition of the author’s first mystery. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Very good in a very good, very uncommon, but possibly second issue dust jacket given flap reviews, but frankly, this is inconclusive speculation, an inadequate basis for comprehensive bibliography. In a quarter-leather custom clamshell box.