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Hunting the Desert Whale (Inscribed Association copy)
by Gardner, Erle Stanley (SIGNED)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Surprise, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Willima Morrow & Company, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Quarto. SIGNED AND WARMY INSCRIBED TO DR. ROBERT P. BRITTAIN, life-long friend of Mr. Gardner and professor of Forensic Medicine at Leeds University, and frequent lecturer at the Homicide Investigation Seminar at the Harvard Medical School, where Gardner was often a pupil. Dr. Brittain was also dedicatee of Gardner's book "The Case of the One-eyed Witness" and, it was said, a remarkable lecturer; he was a lawyer as well as a Medical Doctor. A fine copy in a so near fine dust jacket. 208 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6798
- Title
- Hunting the Desert Whale (Inscribed Association copy)
- Author
- Gardner, Erle Stanley (SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Willima Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2006
Surprise, Arizona
About Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
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