Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
VAN DINE, S.S. [WRIGHT, WILLARD HUNTINGTON.] The Benson Murder Case. 8vo, red-stamped black cloth, minor rubbing, light surface soiling; dust jacket, few lines of age-toning, paper restorations; small gouge on rear pastedown at gutter. New York: Scribner's, 1926

Additional Details

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