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“WITH ALL MY LOVE AND SO MANY HAPPY MEMORIES”: THE CASE OF THE HESITANT HOSTESS, INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TO HIS SECRETARY

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Hesitant Hostess. New York: William Morrow, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. 

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to one of his secretaries: “To Louise with all my love and so many happy memories. Yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner. May 1953.”

“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 41 of 86 books in the series.

Mild discoloration to cloth, price-clipped dust jacket lovely and fine. A near-fine copy.