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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… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 275 [2] pages; pictorial dust jacket by Charles Lofgren, with price of $2.50 on front flap; small loss at head of jacket spine. Internally clean and bright. A Perry Mason story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 220 pages; original black cloth, printed in red; a fine, lovely copy, in a compelling color pictorial dust jacket, with $2.00 price on front flap.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A fine copy bound in red cloth with black lettering in a near fine dust jacket. 223 pp.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1992. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 303 pages; INSCRIBED ad SIGNED on the title page; owner name and date on ffep. Dust jacket with $15.95 on front flap. First printing with full number line.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Original black cloth, printed in red; $2.00 price on front flap of dust jacket. A lovely copy, internally clean, with no markings of any kind; color pictorial dust jacket with mild creases at foot of front panel and small chip at head of spine.

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.

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.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 215 pages; first printing. Pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 on front flap. Owner name and date on ffep.

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.