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THE BISHOP MURDER CASE; A Philo Vance Story By S.S. Van Dine / Illustrated with Scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture
ref. 8165New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1929. First Illustrated Photoplay MGM Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good Plus. Small 8vo 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" black cloth with yellow lettering on spine and cover archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket unclipped depicting a skeletal hand holding a red bishop chess piece; PHOTOPLAY EDITION illustrated with photographs from the MGM film starring Basil Rathbone and Leile Hyams with B&W frontispiece 3 full-page stills from the movie & 2 fold-outs: 1 map & 1 layout of a crime scene; 349 pages 9 Pages of Publisher's Ads for G&D books. Fourth Philo Vance mystery in which the detective solves a crime committed by the "Bishop" by solving clues based upon Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Published in the same year--1929--as the Scribner's edition. "S.S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright 1888 - 1939 a U.S art critic and author of murder mysteries. He created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance who first appeared in books in the 1920s then in movies and on the radio." Square tight bright clean copy. Light uniform age-toning to paper. Bright dust jacket unclipped with edge-chipping. Previous owner's presentation on front free endpaper. Photoplay edition illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature starring Basil Rathbone and Leile Hyams. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers hardcover
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