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PRESENTATION COPY OF THE CASE OF THE CARELESS CUPID,
INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Careless Cupid. New York: William Morrow, 1968. Octavo, original red paper boards, original dust jacket.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “To Lucile Peterson with all best wishes from Yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner.”

“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 79 of 86 books in the series. Hubin, 162.

Fine condition.