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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…
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The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
by S. S. Van Dine [PSEUD Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)]
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine. 1984. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 328 pages. A Philo Vance Mystery, No. 5. The Scarab Murder Case is a classic whodunit written by S. S. Van Dine. In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in a private home that doubles as a museum of Egyptology .
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Grosset and Dunlap. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Very bright book, small cut along bottom board, does not detract. Jacket is pretty nice, thin chipping at head and foot of spine, and very minor tape marks to jacket edge. Nice copy.
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The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Mystery
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. Reissue . Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 328 pp. First printing thus.
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The Scarab Murder Case A Philo Vance Story.
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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 .
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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.
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The World Publishing Company, 1945. Jacket rubbed, chipped, closed tear at tail. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean and tanning in margins, text has no markings, binding is sound.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Scarab Murder Case (a Philo Vance Detective Story)
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The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
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Cassell & Co 1930. First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 341pp + folding plate at p32, VG (bruising & fraying to spine extrems, two 1cm closed tears to upper & lower spine extrems, fraying to spine/board folds, owner's name in ink crossed out to fep, warden's office stamps crossed out to feps, slight foxing)
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New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket not price clippped. No signatures or bookplates to book xii, 328 p. illus., plans (1 fold. ) 20 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plans. jacket with chipping at spine head affecting about half the H and E of "The" of title. First edition with A on copyright page
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The Scarab Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story
by Van Dine, S.S. [pseud. Willard Huntington Wright]
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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.
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The scarab murder case. A Philo Vance story.
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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.
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The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story.
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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.
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UsedGood. Endpages has mild staining. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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328+[5 ad] pages with diagrams and fold out plan. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page, second state with the dates 1929, 1930. 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…
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THE SCARAB MURDER CASE A Philo Vance Story
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1930. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Foxing along text block edges. .
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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.
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THE SCARAB MURDER CASE. A Philo Vance Story
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. With Scribner seal + A on copyright page. $2.00 on front flap. A very good+ copy with minimal edge wear and light scattered foxing in a very good dust jacket with chip top tip of dust jacket spine affecting "The" in title, short closed tears, chips, and creases. 328 pp. + 5 pages of Ads.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. First printing, with the "A" to spine. Octavo (19cm). Black publisher's cloth, stamped in yellow, with original dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xiv],328,[10]pp; 10pp of publisher's ads at rear; with folding map. Ink inscription to front pastedown, "Dot from Ed." Straight and bright, lightly rubbed at edges, paper mellowed: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $2.00), much rubbed, chipped at edges, dampstaining to spine: unrestored, but just Very Good. Originally serialized in the American magazine, 1929-30. Basis for the 1936 lost film directed by Michael Hankinson, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White. PENZLER p.20. BARZUN & TAYLOR 2119. HUBIN p.414.
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