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ADVANCE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE CASE OF THE DEADLY TOY,
WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Deadly Toy. New York: William Morrow, (1959). Octavo, original gray paper boards, original dust jacket.

First edition, advance presentation copy, inscribed: “To Sue & Frank with all the love in the world from Yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner. Dec 1958.”

“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 58 of 86 books in the series. Hubin, 162. An abridged version of this book was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post under the title, The Case of the Greedy Grandpa. Erle Stanley Gardner frequently inscribed books to the recipients of this copy, Frank and Sue Fiske. In addition to being one of Gardner’s close friends, Frank Fiske was also a writer; his short story, “Court of the Singing Goldfish,” was published alongside Gardner’s Western novelette, “On the Poison Trail,” in the July 1926 issue of Triple-X.

Book with only faint foxing to endpapers, price-clipped dust jacket about-fine with only light rubbing.