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“TO LOUISE WHO HAS BEEN WITH ME THROUGH THICK AND THIN”: THE CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK, INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TO HIS SECRETARY

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Drowning Duck. New York: William Morrow, 1942. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. 

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to one of his secretaries: “To Louise who has been with me through thick and thin, with loads of love from Yours ever, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner. July 1942.”

“In Perry Mason, the combative defense attorney who manipulates the legal system to vindicate the innocent, Gardner created one of the most widely recognized figures in American literature? Mason came to embody the ideal of the American lawyer” (ANB). This is number 20 of 86 books in the series.

Book with a bit of discoloration to foot of spine, price-clipped dust jacket bright and clean, with a small closed tear to spine edge. A near-fine copy.