THE CASE OF THE GILDED LILY - THE GOLDSTONE COPY
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1956. First Edition. Item #8176
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,244,[4]pp. Pictorial bookplate of noted American bibliophile Adrian Homer Goldstone (1897-1977) mounted to front pastedown. Spine ends and one lower board corner gently bumped, faint trace of residue from an old-style jacket protector along lower board edges, with a very faint tape shadow to endpapers, preliminary, and terminal leaves; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), shelfworn, gently spine-sunned, with a few small losses, tears, and creases; Very Good. The second of three Perry Mason novels released in 1956. Mundell, p.52.
Price: $50.00