$400
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938. First edition. 8vo. 310 pp. Original black cloth, stamped in red, slightly cocked; top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed; in original unclipped dust-jacket, with a few short closed tears and very small chips, unfaded spine.
The 13th of Gardner's 80 Perry Mason novels and uncommon in first edition, even more so in jacket.