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London: Harrison and Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. In volume XLIX, pages 540 - 548, of Proceedings of the Royal Soceity of London. Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, was much interested in anthropometric classification. On 27 November 1890, he read a paper to the Royal Society, which was printed in its Transactions, on "The Patterns of Thumb and Finger Marks." In May 1891 Galton contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal Society, "A Method of indexing Finger-Marks" In these papers, his discovery of anthropometric classification of fingerprints were announced in print for the first time. In August of that year he wrote for The Nineteenth Century a popular account of the subject under the title "Identification by Finger-Tips." In 1892, in his book "Finger Prints" Galton gathered together all these earlier studies and recorded other experiments, illustrated from photographs and drawings. The outcome of this was the…
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Method of Indexing Finger-Marks, In Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. From Dec. 11, 1890 to May 28, 1891
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Hunting the Desert Whale (Inscribed Association copy)
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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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Over the Hump
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London: Gordon Martin Publishing Co., Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. In original red cloth, spine printed in black; 92 pages. The American title is "Death Rides A Box Car." A very good copy, front inner hinge cracked.
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THE FORMS OF FICTION
by GARDNER, John and Lennis Dunlap
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New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Large Octavo. John Gardner's first book. A very good+ copy bound in yellow paper covered boards. Minimal cover edge wear, spotting top edge. No dust jacket as issued. x, 657 pp.
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James Bond in Win, Lose or Die (INSCRIBED)
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New York: G. P. Putnam, 1989. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 319 pages; INSCRIBED by the author on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson: " For Arthur / Best wishes and Thanks / John Gardner" - Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $13.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line. Owner name and date on ffep.
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THE CASE OF THE ONE-EYED WITNESS
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New York: William Morrow, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. A near fine copy with neat owner inscription ffep, minimal cover edge wear. In a very good+ dust jacket. viii, 270 pp.
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The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret
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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 237 pp. A beautiful copy.
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The Case of the Horrified Heirs
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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A handsome copy. 218 pp.
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SeaFire
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New York: G. P. Putnam, 1994. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 286 pages; price of $18.95 on front flap; INSCRIBED by the author on title page: "To Arthur / Best wishes / John Gardner"
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James Bond in Broken-Claw (INSCRIBED)
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New York: G. P. Putnam, 1990. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 304 pages; INSCRIBED by the author on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson: " For Arthur / All good wishes / John Gardner" - Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $14.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line. Owner name and date on ffep.
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The Case of the Crimson Kiss. A Perry Mason Novelette and Other Stories
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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A fine unread copy, in a fine dust jacket, with $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Contains the following stories: The Case of the Crimson Kiss, Fingers of Fong, The Valley of Little Fears, Crooked Lightning and At Arm's Length. The first Gardner title published after his death.
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The World of Water. Exploring the Sacramento Delta (Inscribed)
by Gardner, Erle Stanley
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New York: William Morrow, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 160 pages; publisher's brown cloth, dust jacket is price-clipped. Inscribed on FEP: "To / Dr. J.J. Mitchell / with all best wishes / Yours Erle / Erle Stanley Gardner" Internally clean and bright; dust jacket shows minor wear.
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The Case of the Lonely Heiress
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 272 pages; pictorial dust jacket with soiling to rear panel, price-clipped. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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The D. A. Breaks an Egg
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 245 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.50 on front flap; dust jacket art by Charles Lofgren. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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The Revenge of Moriarty (Inscribed)
by Gardner, John
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 289 pages; inscribed on title page: "To Arthur / Best Wishes / John Gardner" - pictorial dust jacket, with $8.95 price on front flap. Owner name and date on FFEP.
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The Case of the Spurious Spinster (Advance Review Copy, with Publisher's slip)
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's yellow cloth printed in black. Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.95 on front flap, and "75c" written below. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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THE CASE OF THE CRYING SWALLOW. A Perry Mason Novelette and Other Stories
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New York: William Morrow, 1971. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First Separate Edition. First published in "The Case of the Cautious Coquette" Book Club Edition 1949. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with minimal chips. 192 pp.
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The Case of the Rolling Bones
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New York: William Morrow & Co, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Original black cloth, printed in red; very good pictorial dust jacket, with $2.00 price on front flap, and small loss at spine ends. Armorial book plate.
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The Case of the Ice-cold Hands
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 218 pages; owner name and date on ffep. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.95 on front flap; red on spine fading.
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THE CASE OF THE TURNING TIDE
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New York: William Morrow, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo. Octavo, 282 pp. publisher's reddish-brown cloth, printed in brown. Dust jacket with price of $2.00 on front flap, and some loss at spine ends. Archival repair to front inner hinge, owner name and date on ffep, small nick at foot of front board. Altogether a very good copy.
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