Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 336

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
VAN DINE, S.S. The Benson Murder Case. 8vo, original red-stamped black cloth; unclipped dust jacket, 1/2-inch closed tear to back panel, tiny tape mend on verso of spine panel, light shelfwear, unclipped; ownership inscription on front flyleaf. New York: Scribner's, 1926

Additional Details

first edition of the first philo vance mystery and Willard Huntington Wright's first novel written under the S.S. Van Dine pseudonym. William Powell starred in the 1930 screen version. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.