Erle Stanley Gardner 1943 The D. A. Goes to Trial Doug Selby Mystery HC w/DJ

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The D. A. Goes to Trial

by

Erle Stanley Gardner

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Triangle Books, New York, 1943. 283 pgs. Reprint

DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chipping present to the spine ends and the edges of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly soiled and worn to the extremities). No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) is a prolific American author best known for his works centered on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason. At the time of his death in March of 1970, in Ventura, California, Gardner was "the most widely read of all American writers" and "the most widely translated author in the world," according to social historian Russell Nye. The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of The Velvet Claws, published in 1933, had sold twenty-eight million copies in its first fifteen years. In the mid-1950s, the Perry Mason novels were selling at the rate of twenty thousand copies a day. There have been six motion pictures based on his work and the hugely popular Perry Mason television series starring Raymond Burr, which aired for nine years and 271 episodes.