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EXTRAORDINARY DEDICATION COPY OF THE CASE OF THE SPURIOUS SPINSTER,
WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TO FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST RICHARD O. MYERS, CERTIFIED BY THE MANUFACTURER AS THE FIRST COPY OFF THE PRESS

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Spurious Spinster. New York: William Morrow, (1961). Octavo, original yellow paper boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

First edition, dedication copy and the first copy to be printed, inscribed to forensic pathologist Dr. Richard O. Myers, the subject of Gardner’s four-page dedicatory foreword to the novel: “To my friend Richard O. Myers M.D. This first copy of the first edition (see certification on following page) with all good wishes. Yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner. April 1961.” This copy also contains a tipped-leaf signed by the manufacturer certifying that it was the first volume of the first edition to come off the press.“

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 64 of 86 books in the series. The recipient of this copy, Dr. Richard O. Myers, was also the person to whom this book was dedicated. Gardner introduced him to readers in a four-page foreword that explained the important work of a forensic pathologist and highlighted Myers’ own contributions to the field. In recognition of Myers’ value to the community and in the hope of encouraging others to support the employment of forensic pathologists in their own communities, Gardner dedicated this work to Myers and specially inscribed this dedication copy to him.Book fine, only slightest rubbing to spine head of price-clipped dust jacket. A most desirable dedication copy, warmly inscribed by Earl Stanley Gardner.