Search Results: the benson murder case by van dine

NY: Pocket Books, 1946. [1st printing, 1946] #333; red endpages. Cover art by Bill Gillies. Laminate starting to peel at corner; corner wear; minor creasing; light tanning.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1968. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Printing - First Thus. 256 pp. Gold Medal Book T2006. Light wear at the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings..

England: The Daily Express Fiction Library No date. 251 pp. Some foxing to end pages. Slight browning to pages. Slight wear to cloth.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback.

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.

First Scribners Paperback edition first printing of the first novel in the Philo Vance series. Originally published in 1926. In fine unread condition.

London: Readers Library. Burgundy cloth, titled gilt. Attractive dustwrapper with wraparound artwork. Dustwrapper lacks 2" of lower spine. Base of spine is just starting to split & front inner hinge just starting to split also . Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1990. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. dark purple gilt-decorated cloth, 1st ed. thus, (1990), 293 pages, all edges gilt. Clean / unmarked. The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces.

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: Avenel Books, 1984. The four novels complete and unabridged, 1st edition thus, large 8vo, 678pp, VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Severn House, 1976. 1st Severn edition. This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head. First on the scene is Philo Vance, amateur detective. Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper, some light shelf wear.

Avenel Books, 1984-03-21. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Text is clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Pages are age-tanned. Flyleaf is has a jagged page edge (Please see photos). Dust jacket included, is clean and bright, light edge/shelf wear. Interior side of DJ has some ink bleeding. Binding is in very good condition. Cover boards excellent. Not price clipped, not ex-library. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. Full printing line. First, thus. 1984. Philo Vance : Four Complete Novels (The Benson Murder Case / The "Canary" Murder Case / The Bishop Murder Case / The Scarab Murder Case). Ships in box, quickly and with care.

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

London: Cassell, 1931 first cheap edition in Cassell's Eighteenpenny Novels, black cloth with dulled gilt filletting, light edge wear, minor age browning to paper, sewn binding, the uncommon dust jacket is unclipped but rubbed and with short tears or chips to spine ends and corner folds, lightly surface dust soiled, 316pp SCANNED WITH THE REMOVABLE JACKET PROTECTOR STILL IN PLACE.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

[London] : Daily Express Fiction Library, 1938. 1st Daily Express Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 251 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects; Vance, Philo (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Private investigators New York (State) New York ; Fiction. English literature; 20th century. Mystery novels. Drama novels.

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 .

New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Pocket Books 333. First paperback publication. Creases to covers. A very good+ copy.; Small octavo.

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

Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Full Near Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Part of The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces. ; First Franklin Library Edition. .