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1930Best.-Nr. 021107New York: Crowell 1930. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. R.G. Sisley illustrator. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear along the spine and a small ink notation on the front cover. The first part of the serialization. Crowell paperback
1930Best.-Nr. b6884New York: Crowell 1930. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. R.G. Sisley illustrator. Near fine in wrappers with wear at the spine extremities. Crowell paperback
1930Best.-Nr. 294234New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight soiling on the front fly very near fine in a rubbed very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. A nice copy. Basis for the 1936 British film with Wilfred Hyde-White playing detective Philo Vance and with a script by Selwyn Jepson. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Best.-Nr. mon0003728763Charles Scribner 1939T. hardcover. Good. 1.0000 7.5000 5.0000. First edition General shelfwear to the cover/ pages. rn Charles Scribner hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 313398NY: SCRIBNERS. 1939. First Edition. Close to near fine in black cloth in a very good dj. Light traces of shelf wear at edges of spine on dj. Last entry in the series. . SCRIBNERS. hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 1917NNew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the Paramount film starring William Powell Louise Brooks and Jean Arthur. Ownership signature. Fine in an exceptionally fine and bright dust jacket. The front panel reproduces the artwork of the first edition and the back panel is a charming colorful painting of the dapper Powell as detective Philo Vance. Grosset & Dunlap unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 15131938. Typed Letter Signed to Lewis E. Gensler from S.S. Van Dine with Western Union Wire from Van Dine to Gensler--1938 Letter measures 10.5 x 7.25 inches; wire measures 6.5 x 8 inches. Letter is toned with previous folds--very good condition. Wire has chipping and wear to edges and is very toned--good condition. Verso blank on both. Enigmatic letter and telegram between two famed personalities of Hollywood S.S. Van Dine Willard Huntington Wright and Lewis Gensler. Willard Wright was an American art critic and social gadfly within entertainment circles but ultimately achieved financial success writing pot-boiler detective novels starring Philo Vance under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. Lewis Gensler's work spanned both coasts as a composer songwriter author and producer. He often incorporated his songs into films he produced. His movie "College Swing" starring George Burns Gracie Allen Martha Raye and Bob Hope is referenced in Van Dine's letter. Gensler primarily was associated with Paramount Pictures. Van Dine humorously writes in the undated letter "We ironed out a few details straightened a couple of incipient kinks and beat the shell game by lifting the hat hiding what seemed to be the most promising idea." Van Dine had just had a lunch date with a "Mr. Holman" who likely worked with Lewis Gensler. The telegram dated Feb. 24 1938 sent the day before Van Dine was to meet Holman states "Outline going first rate and licking nicely with a double snapper. With no more Jack Louis fights scheduled hereabouts and all the local racetracks closed you should have a first draft in a week or ten days." In the early 1930's Van Dine wrote screen treatments for Warner Brothers including 12 two-reel "murder mystery" short films. Piecing the dates together we surmise Van Dine was writing the screenplay for the "Gracie Allen Murder Case" his last novel. The novel published in 1938 was released as a movie produced by Paramount Pictures shortly after Van Dine would pass away in April 1939. unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 1095801928. Signed. WRIGHT Willard Huntington VAN DINE S.S. The Benson Murder Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Octavo contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands decorative endpapers top edge gilt. $1400.Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S.Van Dine a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to his close friend ""To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the Uberbrettl movementÑthe place and the subject which resulted in our friendship. S.S. Van Dine New York.""Lederer the recipient of this distinctive copy was a close friend of Wright who published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork Lederer stepped in and told his friend to instead ""devote his life to writing crime novels"" Sanchez Jose Raul Capablanca 276. Lederer offered Wright access to his ""vast collection of detective fiction.É Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction old and newÉ and decided he could do better"" Backer Mystery Movie Series 5-6. As Wright began working on Benson Murder Case the first Philo Vance novel he asked Lederer a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting to gain background for Philo Vance's talent for solving chess-related murders. In 1933 New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer ""gave S. S.Van Dine the chess and mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.""When Wright began ""crafting his influential theory of detective fiction he drafted several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's promptly receiving a contract."" Benson Murder Case launched ""what Haycraft has called the ""Golden AgeÉ Van Dine's place in the history of the American detective story is secure and important"" Reilly 1415. ""Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives"" Hardy BFI Companion to Crime 137. At his death Wright was ""the best known American writer of the detective story since PoeÉ His name will endure among the immortals of the literature"" Haycraft 168. Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Reilly 1414. Hubin 414. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. See Barzun & Taylor 3268. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The ""berbrettl movement"" of Wright's inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; ""hopatcong"" likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The 'Canary' Murder Case the second Philo Vance novel complains of getting ticketed for speeding while ""driving down to Hopatcong.""Text fine lightest edge-wear faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy. hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 1095801928. Signed. WRIGHT Willard Huntington VAN DINE S.S. The Benson Murder Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Octavo contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands decorative endpapers top edge gilt. $1400.Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S.Van Dine a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to his close friend ""To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the Uberbrettl movementÑthe place and the subject which resulted in our friendship. S.S. Van Dine New York.""Lederer the recipient of this distinctive copy was a close friend of Wright who published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork Lederer stepped in and told his friend to instead ""devote his life to writing crime novels"" Sanchez Jose Raul Capablanca 276. Lederer offered Wright access to his ""vast collection of detective fiction.É Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction old and newÉ and decided he could do better"" Backer Mystery Movie Series 5-6. As Wright began working on Benson Murder Case the first Philo Vance novel he asked Lederer a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting to gain background for Philo Vance's talent for solving chess-related murders. In 1933 New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer ""gave S. S.Van Dine the chess and mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.""When Wright began ""crafting his influential theory of detective fiction he drafted several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's promptly receiving a contract."" Benson Murder Case launched ""what Haycraft has called the ""Golden AgeÉ Van Dine's place in the history of the American detective story is secure and important"" Reilly 1415. ""Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives"" Hardy BFI Companion to Crime 137. At his death Wright was ""the best known American writer of the detective story since PoeÉ His name will endure among the immortals of the literature"" Haycraft 168. Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Reilly 1414. Hubin 414. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. See Barzun & Taylor 3268. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The ""berbrettl movement"" of Wright's inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; ""hopatcong"" likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The 'Canary' Murder Case the second Philo Vance novel complains of getting ticketed for speeding while ""driving down to Hopatcong.""Text fine lightest edge-wear faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy. hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. R98163Romae [Rome], Philippi Cuggiani 1897 136,[3] pp., 21cm., text in Latin, original softcover, most pages still uncut, libr. stamp, good condition, R98163
1912Best.-Nr. R39916Brugge, Houdmont-Cortvriendt 1912 147pp., orig.perkamenten omslag, wat roestplekjes, goede staat
1938Best.-Nr. H49149Tielt, Lannoo 1938 95pp.met enige illustraties, orig.omslag, 20cm.
Best.-Nr. T65359Esschen, Sint-Alfonsus s.d. 30pp., 18cm., stempeltje op titelblad, T65359
1927Best.-Nr. R49565Leuven, St.Alfonsus-boekhandel 1927 2 delen: xvi + 732pp.met enige ills., 3e uitgave, 23cm.
1952Best.-Nr. R44431Jette, 1952 184pp., geïll.omslag
1935Best.-Nr. T72646Amsterdam, Van Munster 1935 vi + 463pp. + buitentekstplaten, 25cm., linnen band, goede staat, T72646
Best.-Nr. 606127Bruxelles, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1991. In-4 broché, couv. ill. en coul.; 263 pp., très nb ill. en coul., cartes, 166 notices descriptives commentées et illustrées, bibliographie et abréviations.
1935Best.-Nr. R28638Leuven, St-Alfonsusdrukkerij 1935 366pp., originele omslag, grotendeels onopengesneden, zeer goede staat, R28638
1942Best.-Nr. R52537Antwerpen, DNB s.d. [+/-1942] 78pp., 2e verbeterde uitgave, 15cm., R52537
1968Best.-Nr. R49436Roma, Padri dei Sacri Cuori 1968 xxiv + 233pp., dans la série "Etudes picpuciennes" vol.7, br.orig., 22cm.
Best.-Nr. 21977Amstelodami (Amsterdam), C.L. Van Langenhuysen, 1905. 14 x 23, 412 pp., reliure dos toilé avec 1 pièce de titre, tranches mouchetés, très bon état (sauf quelques rares soulignages au crayon noir, cachets du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons).
1987Best.-Nr. F109812Romae [Rome], Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana 1987 xxv + 70pp., 24cm., softcover, text in Spanish, Excerpt of Doctoral Dissertation in the Faculty of Philosophy, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, F109812
Best.-Nr. 603720Nevers, Direction des Services d'Archives de la Nièvre, 1987. In-4, en feuille sous chemise souple à rabat ill. sur le 1er plat ; 325 pp., très nb. documents, textes, fac-similés et reprod. photogr. en n/b. relatifs à l'occupation allemande dans la Nièvre pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.
Best.-Nr. 606279Lima, Museo Nacional, 1932. In-4 broché, 164 pp., 6 pl. d'ill. photogr. en n/b., très nb. fig. dont beaucoup à pleine pp. in-t., texte en espagnol, bibliographie, index.
1945Small 8vo; 59 pages; Not in Wolff nor Robinson & Friedman. Early memoir of SS- improsonment in Holland, Braunschweig, Drenthe, & elsewhere. Includes 7 dramatic line drawings, plus one photo. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide, but only 5 copies outside of the Netherlands (U Charles de Gaulle, US Holocaust Museum, U South Florida, UWisc-Madison, Tel Aviv Univ). Bottom half of spine repaired, no loss to text or graphic, Good Condition thus. (Holo2-126-6)