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In Firenze, nella Stamperia de Landini, 1636, in-4, legatura novecentesca che riutilizza la pelle dei piatti della legatura seicentesca, inquadrati da una serie di filetti a secco con immagine della Vergine con bambino, impressa in oro entro ovale raggiato al centro dei campi, dorso a 4 nervi (il dorso è moderno), [8], 254, [14]. Con frontepizio calcografico (fuori fascicolazione) e 40 incisioni in rame a piena pagina di Jacques Callot su disegni di Matteo Rosselli, Antonio Tempesta, Arsenio Mascagni, Fabrizio Boschi, Giovanni Bilivert, Antonio Circignano (le incisioni sono comprese nella fascicolazione e numerate con soli numeri dispari da 1 a 79, ma ci sono due errori nella sequenza delle illustrazioni) Seconda edizione di questo libro famoso. Moreni II, 513: "I rami che adornano quest'opera, sono tutti incisi a bulino dal celebre Jacques Callot". Brunet, III, 1181. Lieure vol. I pag. 32. Qualche brunitura, qualche macchia sparsa un paio di strappetti restaurati. Due ex-libris di prestigiosi bibliofili sulla controguardia anteriore: Paolo Rousseau e Loriano Bertini.
19281095801928. Signed. WRIGHT Willard Huntington VAN DINE S.S. The Benson Murder Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Octavo contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands decorative endpapers top edge gilt. $1400.Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S.Van Dine a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to his close friend ""To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the Uberbrettl movementthe place and the subject which resulted in our friendship. S.S. Van Dine New York.""Lederer the recipient of this distinctive copy was a close friend of Wright who published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork Lederer stepped in and told his friend to instead ""devote his life to writing crime novels"" Sanchez Jose Raul Capablanca 276. Lederer offered Wright access to his ""vast collection of detective fiction. Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction old and new and decided he could do better"" Backer Mystery Movie Series 5-6. As Wright began working on Benson Murder Case the first Philo Vance novel he asked Lederer a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting to gain background for Philo Vance's talent for solving chess-related murders. In 1933 New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer ""gave S. S.Van Dine the chess and mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.""When Wright began ""crafting his influential theory of detective fiction he drafted several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's promptly receiving a contract."" Benson Murder Case launched ""what Haycraft has called the ""Golden Age Van Dine's place in the history of the American detective story is secure and important"" Reilly 1415. ""Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives"" Hardy BFI Companion to Crime 137. At his death Wright was ""the best known American writer of the detective story since Poe His name will endure among the immortals of the literature"" Haycraft 168. Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Reilly 1414. Hubin 414. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. See Barzun & Taylor 3268. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The ""überbrettl movement"" of Wright's inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; ""hopatcong"" likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The 'Canary' Murder Case the second Philo Vance novel complains of getting ticketed for speeding while ""driving down to Hopatcong.""Text fine lightest edge-wear faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy. hardcover
1925mon0000070542HMSO 1925-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. Clean copy sound binding. HMSO paperback
Very Good English, Middle (1100-1500) Original imitation vellum. An OCLC register says "decorated with small shells and seaweed pasted on". Chipped on extremities and spine, slight pouring on paper; several tapes used at the link of the pages to binding. Otherwise a good copy. Small 4to. (27 x 18 cm). In Middle English (15th century). The first leaf attached to front cover. At end, 6 blank leaves. [46] p. with [7] blank pages, many illustrations, 1 letter with its broken seal. Separately, a facsimile of a letter from Isabella (Dona Isabel por Gracia de Dios Reina de Castilla y Leon etc. etc. A Don Cristobal Colon de Genova) to Columbus, dated 'Granada a? trece de Abril de MCCCCXCII,' with a broken seal attached. Script on vellum as well. Two registers in OCLC (1029665801 and 60764823 -This one is New York Edition-). 'Düsseldorf Edition' says "A spurious work purporting to be the logbook of Christopher Columbus, which, according to legend, he threw into the sea during a storm, and which was found on the coast of Pembrokeshire 400 years later. Written in antiquated English, with paper and binding made to imitate in color and appearance a volume damaged by exposure to seawater. "S.A.S.X. MY XPO FERENS" from cover, variously interpreted, eg. Supples servus altissimi Salvatoris Xristi Mariae Josephi Xpoferens. Forgery attributed to Karl Maria Seyppel. Printed by lithographic process on imitation parchment paper. Text and illustrations printed to appear handwritten, with many decorated initials. Accompanied by: reproduction of a letter purported to be by the finder of the logbook dated "September forth 1890"; "Don~a Isabel por gracia de Dios Reina do Castilla y Leon, etc., etc. a? Don Cristo?bal Colon de Ge?nova," supposed letter on imitation parchment, authorizing his voyage, dated "Granada, a? trece de abril de mccccxcij," with an attached seal, laid in.". This is a fine hoax on Colombus' first travel into America. It includes a map containing Cuba, San Salvador, and unknown areas with a hand drawing of Columbus as well as other illustrations and decorative borders, etc. This Edition may be printed in memory of the 400th year of '1492'. "Columbus's log of the first voyage has not survived, although we do have an abstract of it, written in the 1530s by Bartolome de las Casas. However, that actually used the "Barcelona Copy" of Columbus's original log. The chart above shows the sources that exist today in green, and sources that have disappeared in red. The chart also shows where secondary souses got their original information. When he returned to Spain in 1493, Columbus gave his original log to the Sovereigns at the royal court in Barcelona. Queen Isabela ordered the log to be copied, resulting in the so-called Barcelona Copy. The original has not been seen since, however, the Barcelona Copy was returned to Columbus just before his second voyage later that year, and remained in his possession until his death in 1506. It then passed into the hands of son Fernando, who used it when he wrote a biography of Columbus in 1538. The Barcelona Copy too was lost sometime after 1554. Sometime around 1530, the Barcelona Copy was abstracted by Las Casas into the Diario. This abstract as part of his research that led to his massive work, the Historia de las Indias. So The Diario remains our best historical record of the first voyage of Columbus. On the westward passage, Columbus kept two sets of distance figures in the log. According to Las Casas, this was done to allay the fears of the crew that they had sailed too far from Spain. The abstract is mostly written in the third person, but there are a number of large direct quotes from the log written in Columbus's own first-person.". (Source: Christopher-Columbus Europe website).
193517479New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. The first edition first printing of The Garden Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story signed by S.S. Van Dine. Octavo 2 332pp 10pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title stamped in gilt. The first printing with the "Scribner's A" on the copyright page. Faint wear to black cloth light scuff mark on front cover along fore-edge. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.00 on the front flap two closed tears with archival tissue reinforcement to verso notable wear along bottom edge of front panel wear at tips a very good example. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by S.S. Dine. The Garden Murder Case was first published in 1935 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. The novel was serialized in American Magazine beginning in February 1935 just before its book release. A British edition was issued the same year by Cassell and Company in London. The book was the ninth in the Philo Vance series and was one of the later entries before the character's popularity declined. A film adaptation by MGM starring Edmund Lowe as Vance was released in 1936. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
Libretto di 14 pagine (ultima bianca), rilegato in cartoncino chiaro coevo, titolo Ospitale de Derelitti – Elenco degl’Impiegati colle loro incombenze, ed assegni, manoscritto al piatto superiore. Note manoscritte a pag. 4, 6, 8, con grafia compatibile con quella del manoscritto in apertura. In apertura 2 carte manoscritte e ripiegate sulle Persone impiegate in servizio del Pio Ospitale de’ Derelitti colla descrizione delle loro incombenze, e de’ respettivi loro assegni. Segue l’indicazione N.6 Padri Somaschi, tre sacerdoti, e tre laici, Infermeria degli Uomini, Infermeria delle Donne, Dalle Figlie, Alla cura Medica, e chirurgica delle Infermerie, Orfani, ed Orfane, All’amministrazione dell’Azienda. Segue data 15 xmbre 1805, e firma manoscritta di Carlo Mondini agente. Booklet of 14 pages (last blank), bound in clear coeval cardboard, title Ospitale de Derelitti - List of Employees with their duties, and checks, handwritten on the upper plate. Handwritten notes on p. 4, 6, 8, with handwriting compatible with that of the manuscript at the beginning. At the opening 2 handwritten and folded papers on the Personnel employed in the service of the Pio Ospitale de 'Derelitti with the description of their duties, and their respective checks. Follows the indication No. 6 Somascan Fathers, three priests, and three lay people, the Infirmary of the Men, the Infirmary of the Women, From the Daughters, To the Medical, and surgical care of the Infirmaries, Orphans, and Orphans, To the administration of the Company. It follows date 15 xmbre 1805, and handwritten signature of Carlo Mondini agente.
187942241879 Au Bureau, Paris, 1879-1892. Quatorze volumes in-4 demi velin ivoire, dos manuscrits, texte sur deux colonnes, nombreuses illustrations de Blass, Willette, Ubel, Job, Caran d'Ache, L. Vallet, Fernand Fau, Guydo, Navarre, José Roy, Gaston Nourry,... Ensemble réunissant: T.I: 1879, 51 n° (manque le 13) et 2 suppléments; T.II: 1880, 52 n° et 1 supplément; T.III: 1881, 52 n°; T.IV: 1882, 53 n°, reliés sans couvertures; T.V: 1883, 52 n° et un supplément, sans les couvertures; T. VI: 1884, 51 n° (manque le 33), sans les couvertures, avec le Jeu du Canard en couleurs; T.VII: 1885, 52 n°, sans les couvertures; T.VIII: 1886, 52 n°, sans les couvertures; T.IX: 1887, 52 n°, sans les couvertures; T.X: 1888, 44 n° (manque 2 n° et quelques couvertures); T.XI: 1889, 52 n°; T.XII: 1890, 52 n°; T.XIII: 1891, 51 n° (manque le 39); T.XIV: 1892, 50 n° (manque le 29, le 23e n'existe pas). Deux dos à restaurer, ensemble rare. On compte parmi les collaborateurs à cet hebdomadaire satirique Capus, Boubée, Barbey d'Aurevilly,... Provenance: Bibliothèque Alain Le Chartier, Marquis de Sedouy.
201112398Milan Mestieri d'Arte 2011-2015 Cinq volumes in-folio brochés, couverture blanche, sous emboitage noir, tranches dorées, 112, 112, 120, 120 et env. 120 pp., illustrations en couleurs, nombreux documents en fac-similés. Edition française numérotée (193/256 pour le n°1, 193/500 pour le n°2, 265/500 pour le n°3, 207/500 pour le n°4 et 494/500 pour le n°5), très bon état.
1667018519Parisiss : SOCIETATIS TYPOGRAPHICAE 1667. Hardcover. Good. Book: Good/Near Very Good/ 1667 . TEMPORARY Price REDUCTION From $ 1900.89 To $1300.89 Until Monday May 20 At 7:00 AM At Which Time This B00K Will Revert Back To Original Price Of $ 1900.89. Book: Good/Near Very Good/ $2000.89 S. Patris BERNARDI Claravallensis Abbatis Primi Melliflvi ecclesiae Doctoris OPERA Tomvs Qvartvs Tractatvs Varios et Opvscvla complectens OMNIA Nvnc Demvm in Capita Distincta Caftigata & Notis illufrata. Stvdio et Labore. Iacobe MERLONI HORSTII SS. Theologiae Licentiati B. Mariae in Pafculo Colon. Pftoris. SOCIETATIS TYPOGRAPHICAE 1667 Parisiss UnKnown Edition H/c 5 Embossed Ribbed Spine On Brown Leather With Title In Worn Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover Book: Good/Near Very Good/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 577 Numbered Pages Printed On Light Tan Paper Browning And Spotting From Aging On Outside Edges That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine Appear To Be Lightly Read In Very Good/ Condition. D/j: None. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. Padded Mailing Envelope To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K Only. = No Odors No Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Other Marks. = Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE <br/> <br/> SOCIETATIS TYPOGRAPHICAE hardcover
1927SB 6/26-1SCRIBNERS 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST IN VERY GOOD DJ. SIGNED NOTE LAID IN. SECOND ISSUE DUST JACKET. . SCRIBNERS Hardcover
1930013566New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 328pp.plus 6 pages of ads in rear. Beautiful First Edition with Scribners "A" and seal on the copyright page. This is the true first issue with a single date 1930 on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth with titles and borders in yellow on front board and spine. Square tight and clean throughout with no foxing or page toning. Some fairly minor wear to bottom edges. Spine ends a bit soft. A tiny blemish or two to cloth but still uncommonly well-preserved. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has the very scarce wrap-around band which is split in two places but otherwise fine and very difficult to find in any condition. Light wear to top edge and rubbing to spine panel. Fresh and bright with no chipping creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy. Hubin p. 405. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
2005Adhya-9780306485060SPRINGER 2005. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
2005Adhya-9780306485060SPRINGER 2005. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1903HALL157031Hardback. 1903. Ego zhizn' i tsarstvovanie. 2 vols. 556 754pp 2 portraits 4to A.S. Suvorin St. Petersburg 1903. Hor. 380: The only full-length treatment of Alexander II. Rebound in 1/2 leather gilt-decorated spines with raised bands. Spines & corners slightly rubbed otherwise a very good set. . hardcover
2005CBS-9780306485060Sp Springer 2005. New. Sp Springer unknown
2005CBS-9780306485060Sp Springer 2005. New. Sp Springer unknown
1911259144N.p. London 1911. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full red morocco gilt upper boards titled in gilt spines with raised bands dentelles gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume occasional superficial scuffs otherwise fine. Internally immaculate. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore of Washington D.C. who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912 and his second wife Mabille daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore born 1901 died in childhood 1907; Jasper Moore born 1905; Clarence Moore born 1910; and Lloyd Moore born 29 November 1912. In addition to the detailed genealogical reports the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887 includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by "Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson experts in Original Research of Baltimore Maryland".<br /> The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926 noting that Mabille married again in 1915 to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe Denmark.<br /> <br /> Clarence Moore 1865-1912 a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C. and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore's heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats.<br /> <br /> A beautiful and imposing genealogy. unknown
1911259144N.p. London 1911. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full red morocco gilt upper boards titled in gilt spines with raised bands dentelles gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume occasional superficial scuffs otherwise fine. Internally immaculate. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Manuscript Genealogy of Sportsman Clarence Moore Who Died on the Titanic. Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore of Washington D.C. who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912 and his second wife Mabille daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore born 1901 died in childhood 1907; Jasper Moore born 1905; Clarence Moore born 1910; and Lloyd Moore born 29 November 1912. In addition to the detailed genealogical reports the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887 includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by "Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson experts in Original Research of Baltimore Maryland".<br/>The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926 noting that Mabille married again in 1915 to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe Denmark.<br/><br/>Clarence Moore 1865-1912 a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C. and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore's heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats.<br/><br/>A beautiful and imposing genealogy. unknown books
192727346New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. 1927. First edition. Author's second Philo Vance mystery. Near fine with lettering on front cover and spine bright and unfaded in second state dust jacket professionally restored at spine ends corners and extremities. The second state dust jacket has the words "The Greene Murder Case" for the forthcoming third book of the series listed on the rear flap. The earliest state of the dust jacket lists "The Taxicab Murder Case" as the forthcoming third book in the series. Margaret O'Dell a blackmailing musical comedy star is found strangled in her apartment and four men come under suspicion: Lindquist a half-mad doctor in love with Margaret; Cleaver a politician whose career she threatened; Mannix a fat broker with a jealous wife; and Jimmy Spotswoode a young society boy Margaret was attempting to blackmail into marriage. Jimmy is arrested and Philo Vance a whimsical society man and amateur detective who is a close friend of Jimmy's father is called in on the case. A Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone title and an uncommon book. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. unknown
1929150618Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Vault Copy Draft script for the 1929 film stamped three times with "Vault Copy" and annotation of the name of uncredited crew member "Mr. Cohn" on front wrapper in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on the 1928 novel by S.S. Van Dine the fourth of twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. The body of man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found at an archery range with an arrow through the heart and a chess bishop left as a clue. Basil Rathbone's only portrayal of the stylish New York P.I. Philo Vance. He would take on the role of Sherlock Holmes for which he is best known beginning in 1939.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers with M.G.M. label dated AUGUST 10 1929 with credits for author S.S. Van Dine and director Nick Grinde. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Lenora J. Coffee. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping and closed tears at extremities and closed tears to spine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
192820962ENew York: Scribners 1928. First Edition of the third Philo Vance novel. Signed and inscribed by the author S.S. Van Dine to actor and screenwriter George O’Hara in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: “To George O’Hara New York 1929 - or bust! If the Greene is shot and you are not there I’ll be unhappy. S.S. Van Dine Hollywood 1928.†Slightly cocked else a very good lightly used copy with some fading to the cloth at the spine and some edge wear without dust jacket. The basis of the 1929 film directed by Frank Tuttle starring William Powell as Philo Vance with Jean Arthur Ullrich Haupt and Florence Eldridge. George O’Hara 1899 - 1966 began his film career working for early Hollywood director Mack Sennett and is best known for starring in Fighting Blood 1923 When Gale and Hurricane Met 1923 and California or Bust 1927. His screenwriting notables include Night Parade 1929and A Single Man 1929. Scribners hardcover books
192820962ENew York: Scribners 1928. First Edition of the third Philo Vance novel. Signed and inscribed by the author S.S. Van Dine to actor and screenwriter George O’Hara in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: “To George O’Hara New York 1929 - or bust! If the Greene is shot and you are not there I’ll be unhappy. S.S. Van Dine Hollywood 1928.†Slightly cocked else a very good lightly used copy with some fading to the cloth at the spine and some edge wear without dust jacket. The basis of the 1929 film directed by Frank Tuttle starring William Powell as Philo Vance with Jean Arthur Ullrich Haupt and Florence Eldridge. George O’Hara 1899 - 1966 began his film career working for early Hollywood director Mack Sennett and is best known for starring in Fighting Blood 1923 When Gale and Hurricane Met 1923 and California or Bust 1927. His screenwriting notables include Night Parade 1929and A Single Man 1929. Scribners hardcover
193616208New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . NICELY INSCRIBED BY S.S. VAN DINE TO MYSTERY WRITER WILLIAM C. WEBER on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition with both the letter 'A' and the Scribner colophon on the copyright page. Tight and VG light rubbing to the silver-titling on the front panel in a crisp price-intact $2.00 VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the panel edges. Thick 12mo the 10th title in Van Dine's wonderful "Philo Vance" series. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
193616208New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . NICELY INSCRIBED BY S.S. VAN DINE TO MYSTERY WRITER WILLIAM C. WEBER on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition with both the letter 'A' and the Scribner colophon on the copyright page. Tight and VG light rubbing to the silver-titling on the front panel in a crisp price-intact $2.00 VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the panel edges. Thick 12mo the 10th title in Van Dine's wonderful "Philo Vance" series. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
193033470New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1930. First edition. This is the so-called "First Issue" with only a single date 1930 on the copyright page. Otto Penzler in his Descriptive Bibliography on S. S. Van Dine says "The capital letter "A" must appear on the copyright page. The "A" was dropped from all subsequent printings the method by which Scribner's identified its first printings from 1930 to 1972." Fine bright tight copy with all lettering on the cloth bright and un-chipped in a fine dust jacket with two tiny closed tears at head of spine. Philo Vance's elaborate murder investigation takes place in a museum of Egyptology. There is a great deal of material on ancient Egyptian art. An exceptional copy and certainly this state is much scarcer than the variant with two dates on the copyright page although the variant state is also scarce. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. hardcover
