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The Kennel Murder Case; A Philo Vance Story

1933réf. 334Toronto: Coop Clark 1933. First Canadian Edition. Very Good. Small 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 185 x 124 mm; pp. 307. Original black cloth titles on spine and front board in dark orange ink bumped at head of spine. Original dust jacket with orange homicide case card American Edition was dark pink chipped especially on spine and corners and some small tears on edges inside in fine condition. A rare and attractive book. The Kennel Murder Case is the novel 6th featuring Van Dine's Philo Vance character. It was adapted to a film version in 1933 directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros. starring William Powell and Mary Astor and is considered one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel. Warner Bros. remade it in 1940 as "Calling Philo Vance" with James Stephenson as Vance and William Clemens directing. S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright October 15 1888 - April 11 1939 when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York and under the pseudonym which he originally used to conceal his identity he created the fictional detective Philo Vance a fictional amateur detective who was featured in 12 novels in the 1920s and 30s. During that time Vance was immensely popular in books films and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish even foppish dandy a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. Van Dine was also a fictional character in the books a sort of Dr. Watson figure who accompanied Vance and chronicled his exploits. As Van Dine described the character of Vance in the first of the novels The Benson Murder Case: «Vance was what many would call a dilettante but the designation does him an injustice. He was a man of unusual culture and brilliance. An aristocrat by birth and instinct he held himself severely aloof from the common world of men. In his manner there was an indefinable contempt for inferiority of all kinds. The great majority of those with whom he came in contact regarded him as a snob. He detested stupidity even more I believe than he did vulgarity or bad taste.». Coop Clark unknown

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THE SCARAB MURDER CASE: A PHILO VANCE STORY - INSCRIBED TO CAROLYN WELLS

1930réf. 8931New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. First Printing second state with the publisher's "A" on copyright page and "1929 1930" dates directly above. Octavo 19.25cm; black cloth with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv328 10pp ads and one folding map. The Florence & Edward Kaye copy with their gilt-stamped morocco bookplate mounted to front pastedown. Inscribed on the front endpaper to American mystery author Carolyn Wells 1862-1942: "To Carolyn Wells Houghton / In appreciation and with sincerest regards / S.S. Van Dine." Rubbing to heel lower corners and a handful of letters at spine with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and a few dog-eared corners smoothed out; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 spine-sunned edgeworn with small losses to spine ends and a series of smaller nicks tears and attendant creases along the upper edge; Very Good. A remnant of the original pictorial wraparound band is laid in. Housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Van Dine's fifth novel featuring amateur detective Philo Vance. "Benjamin H. Kyle a philanthropist and art patron is found murdered in a famous private museum in Gramercy Park. He has been struck over the head with a statue of Sekhmet the Egyptian goddess of vengeance and is lying in a pool of blood his arms outstretched toward a life-size statue of Anubis the god of the dead. The principal clew to the murder is a small lapis-lazuli scarab of Intef V a Pharaoh of the Seventeenth Dynasty" from front flap. Others are brought in to head up the investigation but naturally it's Philo Vance who solves the murder. A distinguished copy inscribed to Carolyn Wells one of the grand dames of the Golden Age of detective fiction and creator of the long-running Fleming Stone series. A proper association connecting two of the most prominent genre authors of their time. Penzler p.20; Hubin p.405. 8931. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown

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