Murder cases
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Hardcover. Condition: fair. Dust Jacket Condition: missing. First printing of this edition. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with black print on spine and cover. Boards are very worn with stains and spots, and pencil marks on front. Black end papers, with dust jacket flaps glued in. Weak front hinge, webbing showing. Pages are clean and unmarked, but tanning at edges. Small damp stain bottom edge last 50 pages. Charles Scribner's Sons hard cover, missing dust jacket, first printing 1936. 1037 pages. 8vo (7.75" x 5.5") Omnibus edition of three Philo Vance novels with additional material. Full page black and white illustrations: Portrait of S. S. Van Dine by James Montgomery Flagg; Portraits of Philo Vance by Herbert Morton Stoops, Clark Agnew, E. M. Jackson, Harold von Schmidt, and Wilfred Jones; and photographs of actors in the role of Philo Vance: William Powell, Paul Lukas, William Warren, and Basil Rathbone. There is also a plan of Bliss Museum and Bliss Home in The Scarab Murder Case. Contents: Introduction, by S. S. Van Dine; S. S. Van Dine - Willard Huntington Wright, by William Stanley Braithwaite; Philo Vance: An Impressionistic Biography, by Y. B. Garden; Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories, by S. S. Van Dine; Introduction to The Scarab Murder Case; The Scarab Murder Case (Philo Vance #5); Introduction to The Kennel Murder Case; The Kennel Murder Case (Philo Vance #6); Introduction to The Dragon Murder Case; The Dragon Murder Case (Philo Vance #7). Seller Inventory # 03061501philovancear
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