Kennel Murder Case Philo by Dine (35 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Reprint of this locked-room mystery, involving a wounded doberman & a shattered Chinese vase; basis of a well-regarded film in 1933, the year of its first publication. First paperback printing, Bantam 60, as pictured. Shows some wear, laminate chipping, gaps inside front & rear where cover is glued to binding; ink name on title page, paper tanned. Text clean; viii, 243, [5] pages; list of other Bantam titles, map endsheets. Size: 4¼" by 6½".

874.VAN DINE S.S. 1933 THE KENNEL MURDER CASE PHILO VANCE STORY.307PP. ILLUSTRATED. HARD COVER NO DUST JACKET. GOOD CONDITION. (OBG-BASE-49).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Chipping to head and tail of spine, scuff marks to edges and front wrap. corners bumped, creasing to back wrap, binding solid.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The seventh Philo Vance mystery. Basis for the 1933 Warner Brothers movie starring William Powell, Mary Astor and, of course, Asta. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the corners and spine ends, spine lettering well rubbed. Damp stain to the corners of the boards and text block. Hinges cracked. Good reading copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The seventh Philo Vance mystery. Basis for the 1933 Warner Brothers movie starring William Powell, Mary Astor and, of course, Asta. Bumped and rubbed, boards lightly mottled. Binding square and solid.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Mass Market Paperback Edition. Near Fine in glossy laminated decorated wrappers, as issued. All edges stained dull red. Text stock toning at edges. First trade edition was Charles Scribner's Sons. 243pp. Q04424.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no DJ, 307 pages plus 6 advertisement pages. Black boards with purple type on cover and spine. Light fading on spine and back cover. Rough cut pages. Dedication page has writing in pen by previous owner, book plate from previous owner on inside front cover. Overall good condition, pages are clean, binding is strong. Pages are lightly toned.

hardcover, Condition: poor, Scribner's, NY, 1936, 1st., 8vo., yellow cloth, 1037pp., badly torn spine, soiled covers, cracked at half-title, covers poor, contents G $.

307 [6, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth stamped in mauve. First edition. Ink ownership name on front free endpaper; light use to cloth; spine lettering a little flaked; clean, tight and sound.

First edition, re-backed with new eps, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 298pp, VG (bruising & fraying to board corners, soiling & fading to spine, sellotape residue stains to boards, light foxing).

Hardcover. Condition: fair. Dust Jacket Condition: missing. First printing of this edition. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with black print on spine and cover. Boards are very worn with stains and spots, and pencil marks on front. Black end papers, with dust jacket flaps glued in. Weak front hinge, webbing showing. Pages are clean and unmarked, but tanning at edges. Small damp stain bottom edge last 50 pages. Charles Scribner's Sons hard cover, missing dust jacket, first printing 1936. 1037 pages. 8vo (7.75" x 5.5") Omnibus edition of three Philo Vance novels with additional material. Full page black and white illustrations: Portrait of S. S. Van Dine by James Montgomery Flagg; Portraits of Philo Vance by Herbert Morton Stoops, Clark Agnew, E. M. Jackson, Harold von Schmidt, and Wilfred Jones; and photographs of actors in the role of Philo Vance: William Powell, Paul Lukas, William Warren, and Basil Rathbone. There is also a plan of Bliss Museum and Bliss Home in The Scarab Murder Case. Contents: Introduction, by S. S. Van Dine; S. S. Van Dine - Willard Huntington Wright, by William Stanley Braithwaite; Philo Vance: An Impressionistic Biography, by Y. B. Garden; Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories, by S. S. Van Dine; Introduction to The Scarab Murder Case; The Scarab Murder Case (Philo Vance #5); Introduction to The Kennel Murder Case; The Kennel Murder Case (Philo Vance #6); Introduction to The Dragon Murder Case; The Dragon Murder Case (Philo Vance #7).

Hardcover. Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket. First Edition. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 404]. Black cloth with bright pink lettering/decoration, 307 pages plus ads at the rear. Good copy with 1-1/8" x 4-1/4" piece off front free endpaper (assume name removed), in fair, very edge worn, Dust Wrapper with short tears and minor spine heel chipping, but that has been trimmed 1/4" too short for the book. bx89E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5.5", black cloth, 307pp + ads, covers a bit rubbed, extremities bumped, pp toned, in a rubbed, extremity-worn/torn/creased dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition. Spine and front cover lettering are well rubbed. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped. Brown stain at top corner of pages 22 to 28. Very light damp stain on back endpapers. 307 pages plus six pages of ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Book issued in black hard cover in a NEAR FINE dust jacket, which has not been price clipped, $2.00. Just a little chipping at the top and bottom of the spine. A beautiful copy! Scarce title. Selling quality books for 35 years.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nf (facsimile).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition with the "A." Very small bookplate, small hole in one spine gutter, some cover mottling, Good, in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight edge wear. This book was the basis for the 1933 film by the same name starring William Powell. The film has been called a masterpiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 307+[1 blank]+[6 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black cloth with chartreuse lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930's. These stories were used as the basis for a series of 12 short films, each around 20 minutes long, that were released in 1930 - 1931. Of these, "The Skull Murder Mystery" (1931) shows Wright's vigorous plot construction. It is also notable for its non-racist treatment of Chinese characters, something quite unusual in its day. As far as it is known, none of Van Dine's screen treatments have been published in book form and none of the manuscripts survive. Short films were popular then and Hollywood made hundreds of them during the studio era. Except for a handful of comedy silents, however, most of these films are forgotten and not listed in film reference books. Wright died April 11, 1939, in New York City, a year after the publication of an unpopular experimental novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, and leaving a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie, and was published posthumously as The Winter Murder Case. The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel, written by S. S. Van Dine, with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked room mystery. One of the Coe brothers is found dead in his bedroom, locked from the inside, and the other brother is found the next morning dead in the downstairs closet. There is also the clue of a wounded Doberman Pinscher, a mysteriously broken piece of priceless Chinese porcelain, and a cast of suspicious family members, servants and associates. Philo Vance solves the case based on his knowledge of dog breeding, Chinese porcelain and the annals of remarkable antique crimes. A Warner Bros. film version of The Kennel Murder Case appeared in 1933. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and starred William Powell as Philo Vance, reprising the role after appearing as Vance in three earlier films for Paramount, and Mary Astor as Hilda Lake, the victims' niece. Many film historians (including William K. Everson, who pronounced it a "masterpiece" in the August 1984 issue of Films in Review) consider it one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel, and rank it with the 1946 film Green for Danger. It was remade by Warners in 1940 as Calling Philo Vance with James Stephenson as Vance and William Clemens directing. World War II-era espionage stood in for the skulduggery of the art world in the remake. Condition: Points gently rubbed, some flaking of lettering to front cover. Jacket with tears and creases to spine ends and front heal edge, small chip to spine head and heal else very good in like jacket.

Condition: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. 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.».

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint mottling at the extremities and a slight spine lean. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a few foxing spots to the text block edge are othwerwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has several tiny chips or closed tears at the extremities but remains bright and attractive. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. First edition thus. Fine, bright, square copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. Cream colored cloth, titles stamped in black on the front cover and spine, black endpapers, [10], 1037 pp., frontispiece [drawing of Van Dine by James Montgomery Flagg], introduction, illustrated. Introduction by S. S. Van Dine. Otto Penzler in his bibliography of Van Dine, page 31 says "Of greater significance is the introduction, previously published as I USED TO BE A HIGHBROW BUT LOOK AT ME NOW, in which Van Dine writes about the inception of the Philo Vance stories and many other autobiographical details, and the complete list, slightly amplified from its original magazine publication (in the September 1928 issue of the AMERICAN magazine) of his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Each of the three novels has an individual introduction and there is a lengthy biography of Van Dine by William Stanley Braithwaite, as well as a similar treatment of Philo Vance by Y. B. Garden, including Vance's Who's Who entry. Ten full-page illustrations and movie actors who portrayed him, plus numerous drawings and maps, further enhance this remarkable volume." An exceptional copy of a scarce book and significantly less common than any of the three novels collected in it.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 307+[1 blank]+[6 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black cloth with chartreuse lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Lettering laid in from the author signed First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page. Typed letter to Mrs Carolyn Wells Houghton signed with original envelope. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. Wells was married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton. She heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green's mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which according to Allen J. Hubin's Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749 2000 (2003) number 61 titles. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930's. These stories were used as the basis for a series of 12 short films, each around 20 minutes long, that were released in 1930 - 1931. Of these, "The Skull Murder Mystery" (1931) shows Wright's vigorous plot construction. It is also notable for its non-racist treatment of Chinese characters, something quite unusual in its day. As far as it is known, none of Van Dine's screen treatments have been published in book form and none of the manuscripts survive. Short films were popular then and Hollywood made hundreds of them during the studio era. Except for a handful of comedy silents, however, most of these films are forgotten and not listed in film reference books. Wright died April 11, 1939, in New York City, a year after the publication of an unpopular experimental novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, and leaving a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie, and was published posthumously as The Winter Murder Case. The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel, written by S. S. Van Dine, with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked room mystery. One of the Coe brothers is found dead in his bedroom, locked from the inside, and the other brother is found the next morning dead in the downstairs closet. There is also the clue of a wounded Doberman Pinscher, a mysteriously broken piece of priceless Chinese porcelain, and a cast of suspicious family members, servants and associates. Philo Vance solves the case based on his knowledge of dog breeding, Chinese porcelain and the annals of remarkable antique crimes. A Warner Bros. film version of The Kennel Murder Case appeared in 1933. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and starred William Powell as Philo Vance, reprising the role after appearing as Vance in three earlier films for Paramount, and Mary Astor as Hilda Lake, the victims' niece. Many film historians (including William K. Everson, who pronounced it a "masterpiece" in the August 1984 issue of Films in Review) consider it one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel, and rank it with the 1946 film Green for Danger. It was remade by Warners in 1940 as Calling Phi. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1037 pages with frontispiece, drawings, illustrations, photographs and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed sheet by the author laid in. (Firsts: Volume 14, number 9, page 32. First omnibus edition. This omnibus edition, published after Garden, collects three of the earlier titles: Scarab, Dragon and Kennel Murder Cases. More importantly it also contains several essential articles, both by and about Willard Huntington Wright, including his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Also included are several "portraits" of Philo Vance from the serialization of the novels in periodicals, and a motion picture studio portrait of William Powell as Vance. this copy has a inscribed leaflet: To Harry F Crouss Yours for bigger and better crimes! S S Van Dine. Condition: J Inscribed sheet by the author laid in. Jacket with minor rubbing to edges, few scratches else near fine in like jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).