May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 382

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VAN DINE, S.S. The Benson Murder Case. 8vo, original red-stamped black cloth; unclipped later issue 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
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first edition of the first philo vance mystery, in a later issue jacket listing The Greene Murder Case and The "Canary" Murder Case on the flaps. 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.