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“WITH ALL MY LOVE”: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE CASE OF THE GRINNING GORILLA, INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TO HIS STENOGRAPHER

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Grinning Gorilla. New York: William Morrow, (1952). Octavo, original green paper boards, original dust jacket.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “To Louise with all my love. Yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner. December 1952.”

“Gardner was, as Francis M. Nevins wrote in a eulogistic essay, ‘one of the great natural storytellers,’ a writer who left behind ‘over a quarter of a century of rich creative work which will be read and reprinted and reread as long as the art of storytelling is cherished” (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 166). This is number 40 of 86 books in the series. Hubin, 162. Louise was one of Gardner’s full-time stenographers, who he referred to collectively as “The Fiction Factory.” “All in all, his factory produced more than a million words per year,” which helped to explain Gardner’s astonishing productivity (NPR).

Book fine, bright price-clipped dust jacket about-fine.