Search Results: the kennel murder case a philo by van dine s

Bantam, 1946. Soft cover. Fair. Vintage mass market paperback from the 40's, scarce. Tape at spine, pages darkened with age, else good in brown pictorial wraps. Map of Vance's New York on inside cover. 243 pp.

Simon & Schuster. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Simon & Schuster, 1984. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MacMillan Publishing Company, 1984. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Simon & Schuster, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Bantam Books, 1946. Reprint of this locked-room mystery, involving a wounded doberman & a shattered Chinese vase; basis of a well-regarded film in 1933, the year of its first publication. First paperback printing, Bantam 60, as pictured. Shows some wear, laminate chipping, gaps inside front & rear where cover is glued to binding; ink name on title page, paper tanned. Text clean; viii, 243, [5] pages; list of other Bantam titles, map endsheets. . First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 4¼" by 6½".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. The seventh Philo Vance mystery. Basis for the 1933 Warner Brothers movie starring William Powell, Mary Astor and, of course, Asta. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the corners and spine ends, spine lettering well rubbed. Damp stain to the corners of the boards and text block. Hinges cracked. Good reading copy.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. The seventh Philo Vance mystery. Basis for the 1933 Warner Brothers movie starring William Powell, Mary Astor and, of course, Asta. Bumped and rubbed, boards lightly mottled. Binding square and solid.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1933.. First edition.. publisher's black cloth stamped in mauve.. Ink ownership name on front free endpaper; light use to cloth; spine lettering a little flaked; clean, tight and sound.. 8vo,.

London: Cassell, 1933. 1st edition. Very Good. small octavo. orig. cloth 297pp., plan, 4 cm. of spine split & damaged. Internally very good

Scribner Paper Fiction, 1984-07-31. paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0.

Cassell & Co 1933. First edition, re-backed with new eps, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 298pp, VG (bruising & fraying to board corners, soiling & fading to spine, sellotape residue stains to boards, light foxing)

Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 404]. Black cloth with bright pink lettering/decoration, 307 pages plus ads at the rear. Good copy with 1-1/8" x 4-1/4" piece off front free endpaper (assume name removed), in fair,. very edge worn, Dust Wrapper with short tears and minor spine heel chipping, but that has been trimmed 1/4" too short for the book. bx89E

307+[1 blank]+[6 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black cloth with chartreuse 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. 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… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1984. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very light edge soiling. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2. Cover Art. 312 pages. A Philo Vance Mystery, No. 6. When the corpse of Chinese art collector Archer Coe is found, gun in hand, in a room whose only door is bolted from the inside, the authorities assume they've discovered a suicide. But after considering the bizarre clues the locked room offers - including a wounded scottie and a blood-stained fragment of an Oriental vase - Philo Vance can only conclude that Coe was murdered. With his usual haighfalutin wit and psychological detection skills, Vance sets about solving a series of peculiarly gruesome killings that rock the elegant New York art world of the early 1930s. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition with the "A." Very small bookplate, small hole in one spine gutter, some cover mottling, Good, in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight edge wear. This book was the basis for the 1933 film by the same name starring William Powell. The film has been called a masterpiece. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1933.

Toronto: Coop Clark, 1933. First Canadian Edition. Very Good. Small 8vo., 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 (185 x 124 mm); pp. 307. Original black cloth, titles on spine and front board in dark orange ink, bumped at head of spine. Original dust jacket with orange homicide case card (American Edition was dark pink), chipped especially on spine and corners and some small tears on edges, inside in fine condition. A rare and attractive book. The Kennel Murder Case is the novel 6th featuring Van Dine's Philo Vance character. It was adapted to a film version in 1933, directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., starring William Powell and Mary Astor and is considered one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel. Warner Bros. remade it in 1940 as "Calling Philo Vance" with James Stephenson as Vance and William Clemens directing. S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an… Read More

London: Cassell and Company. 1933. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint mottling at the extremities and a slight spine lean. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a few foxing spots to the text block edge are othwerwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has several tiny chips or closed tears at the extremities but remains bright and attractive. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.