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First Edition
Books and Dust Jackets
From the Erle Stanley Gardner
Collection of John Anthony Miller
The First Three
Mason Books, written in the early 1930's in Ventura, California, and transcribed on 400
block of Main Street.
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"The Case of The Velvet Claws" The first
Mason book written in Ventura, California in 1932 and
published the following year by Morrow. At the left is a picture of the first edition dust
jacket. Very rare and correspondingly expensive. |
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"The Case of The Sulky Girl" The second Mason book to written in Ventura, California in 1932 and
published the following year by Morrow. At the left is a picture of the first edition dust
jacket. This, for some reason, is the scarcest Mason book jacket to acquire. The
book itself is rather scarce as well. In a dust jacket it is very rare and expensive. |
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"The Case of The Lucky
Legs"
The third Mason book to written in Ventura, California in
1933 and published the following year by Morrow. At the left is a picture of the first
edition dust jacket. This is also on of the scarcest Mason book jacket to
acquire. It is very rare and again, now expensive. |
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