Author: VAN DINE, S. S.
Title: The Dragon Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story (True First Edition in Facsimile of the Original Dust Jacket)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of S. S. Van Dine's murder mystery, the seventh in a series featuring the author's sophisticated Manhattan-based Philo Vance character. In this story, a man goes missing during a swimming party at a wealthy family's Manhattan estate. Includes a map of the estate to endpapers. S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of W. H. Wright. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in red. First edition signified on copyright page with Scribner's colophon and 'A'. Volume wrapped in a facsimile of the original dust jacket, which features a color illustration to front panel. --- With rubberstampings of the Service Company of the US Army 8th Armored Division in two locations. (This division saw duty in the European Theater during World War II.) With prior owner's penciled signature to front endpaper, mild soiling to cloth and repaired tears at front gutter, else a well-preserved, tightly-bound, otherwise unmarked copy. The facsimile dust jacket has the original $2 flap price; is undamaged and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 311, [6, ads] pages. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Fiction
Title: The Dragon Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story (True First Edition in Facsimile of the Original Dust Jacket)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of S. S. Van Dine's murder mystery, the seventh in a series featuring the author's sophisticated Manhattan-based Philo Vance character. In this story, a man goes missing during a swimming party at a wealthy family's Manhattan estate. Includes a map of the estate to endpapers. S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of W. H. Wright. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in red. First edition signified on copyright page with Scribner's colophon and 'A'. Volume wrapped in a facsimile of the original dust jacket, which features a color illustration to front panel. --- With rubberstampings of the Service Company of the US Army 8th Armored Division in two locations. (This division saw duty in the European Theater during World War II.) With prior owner's penciled signature to front endpaper, mild soiling to cloth and repaired tears at front gutter, else a well-preserved, tightly-bound, otherwise unmarked copy. The facsimile dust jacket has the original $2 flap price; is undamaged and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 311, [6, ads] pages. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Fiction
Price: US$ 85.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88840
- Book number: 88840