The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

by S. S Van Dine

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson, head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard. xii, 328, 5, versos only, ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good+ with slight crease to prelims, edge rubbing, in Good+ unclipped dust

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