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THE GREENE MURDER CASE: A PHILO VANCE STORY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second issue. The second issue or state of the first edition with "Copyright, 1927, 1928, by Charles Scribner's Sons" on the copyright page. The first impression was issued March 1928, (the dedication copy has been observed with line "copyright, 1928"), the second issue the same month. A Philo Vance novel.
THE MAN OF PROMISE.
New York: John Lane Company. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-351 [352: blank], original brick red cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first novel. Stanford West, the protagonist of the novel, "the story of a man who possesses the potentialities of genius, but is dragged down by his high ambitions and by the women who cross his path..." The Book News Monthly, Volume 35, September 1916-August 1917. The author is popularly known for his Philo Vance mystery novels using the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine.