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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 283 pages. There are no marks or writing in the book. Light wear to the corners. Very light shelf wear to the edges. No reading creases on the spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Cover colors are bright.
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Very Good. Remainder mark on top and bottom of text block. Mild spine creasing. 283 pages. A Philo Vance Mystery, No. 8. Philo Vance, gourmet and amateur detective in 1930s Manhattan, investigates three mysterious poisonings at a fashionable gambling club.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. A very good copy with some smudging and light staining in a supplied but sympathetic, very good, price-clipped dust jacket with slight internal stains. Inscribed by the author: "To Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor With great appreciation for his gracious assistance, and with warm personal regards. S.S. Van Dine." The English-born Taylor was a chemist who spent much of his life at Princeton, and who in World War II played a prominent role in the American scientific effort, directing a number of research projects, and contributing to the development of the atomic bomb with his discovery of the most effective catalyst for producing heavy water. He was knighted by both the Queen and the Pope in the same month. A Chair in chemistry is named for him at Princeton. The inscription would seem to indicate that Taylor provided advice to Van Dine about the novel (or at least to Willard Huntington Wright, as Van Dine was a pseudonym). A Philo Vance novel, filmed in 1935 with Paul Lukas as Vance, starring opposite Rosalind Russell in one of her earliest roles.
