[VAN DINE, S.S.] WRIGHT, WILLARD HUNTINGTON. The Great Detective Stories. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth, minimal spine lean; unclipped dust jacket, short closed tears and a few small chips along edges not touching letters, spine panel darkened; small spot at bottom blank margin of a few pages. First edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed: "To Bartlett Cormack / With pleasant memories / of an all-too-short sojourn / to Atlantic City. / Willard Huntington Wright / New York / 1928." In the uncommon unrestored jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927