The D.A. Draws a Circle

by Erle Stanley Gardner

$850 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

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New York: William Morrow, 1939. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: To Noni / Who wrote it / From the guy who paid her for doing it / Erle Stanley Gardner. According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants, and apparently took much of the manuscript from dictation. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Dampstain at

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