Buy this book on-line GARDNER**, ERLE STANLEY: : THE CASE OF THE FUGITIVE NURSELONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.,1959. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Preceded by the US published WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY,1954 1st edn.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn per se,but an immaculate b/w W.H. Smith & Son Circulating library Bookplate pasted to front pastedown.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy colour pictorial artwork, illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white,red and yellow lettering,white spine/backstrip with black lettering,a very lightly grubbed white background with black lettered critic's review for Elizabeth Hely's debut crime novel, 'Dominant Third'; with negligible shelf- wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling,with faint,minimal foxing/ spotting but still clean,fore-edges similarly,but slightly brighter and also with faint,minimal,sporadic foxing/ ; contents bright,tight,clean - text body virtually foxing-free,apart from about 20pp in total of Chapters 16 and the half-dozen or so,pages of Chapter 17,else solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks, tears, splits or fraying present,and clean plain white eps - bookplate excepted,both endpaper hinges solid and sound - without any splits,tears.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, author's foreword,v-ixpp+1-251pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with publisher's advert for Gardner's other Perry Mason Cases and also the D.A. mystery series titles,title page and to rear,2pp blanks.
An uncommonly presentable example,this example has survived exceptionally well, particularly the dw/dj without the usual major discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a book of this age. A Perry Mason mystery (the 43rd).
In the UK,the retail chain W.H. Smith ran a library scheme from 1860,which lasted until 1961, when the library was taken over by that of Boots the Chemist.This was founded in 1898 and at one time to be found in 450 branches nationwide,and continued until the last 121 disappeared in 1966.
A highly collected and prolific author of the detective crime genre,and usual item in Gardner's typical style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon.
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