First edition, first printing.
Signed by S.
S.
Van Dine on the title page, inscribed to the former owner.
xii, [ii], 311, [1] [6; ads] pp.
Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in crimson with map endpapers.
Near Fine.
Quite sharp with light edge wear and a bit of faint soiling to cloth In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with minor creasing at spine ends, light chipping at corners and perforated letters spelling out "UNCo.
at front flap; possible review copy.
A Philo Vance whodunit with a plot revolving around mythological dragons.
The basis for the 1934 film starring Warren William and Margaret Lindsay; uncommon signed.