Buy this book on-line GARDNER**, ERLE STANLEY: : THE CASE OF THE HALF-WAKENED WIFELONDON.CASSELL AND COMPANY,1949. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[Preceded by the US published M. S. Mill Company, 1945 1st edn.'THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARDS' advice/notification,and stated First published in 1949. to recto of title page.] NFINE.Two separate owner's handwritten ink names to front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red 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 - owner inscrptns excepted,both hinges solid and sound - without any splits,tears or cracking.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling,with faint, minimal foxing/spotting but still bright and clean,fore-edges similarly,but slightly brighter and also with faint, minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - text body virtually foxing-free,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-239pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with publisher's advert for Gardner's other Perry Mason Cases and also the D.A. mystery series titles,and title page.
An uncommon example given it's period of production,i.e. with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of cheap paper stock generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+ printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded.With war-time paper rationing and conservation of that and other materials,pulping was actively encouraged, so publishers with restricted and limited quantities for publishing,opted towards highly acidic and therefore cheaper paper, allowing for more books to be produced. Books made with this cheaper material tend to degrade faster,exhibiting several faults,blemishes,foxing/spotting etc.,and subsequently are uncommon and harder to find in a particularly fine condition.
This example however,has survived exceptionally well,particularly without the protection of a dw/dj as boards are exceptionally clean and without the usual discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a book of this age. A Perry Mason mystery (the 27th).
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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