New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1937. 3rd printing (stated). Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and a brief commentary in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap); the jacket has some minor wear at the spine extremities, but is overall bright and attractive]. A sharp-looking copy of the first "D.A. Doug Selby" mystery, a series to which Gardner turned for the occasional break from cranking out Perry Mason books (at least until 1949, when the last of the nine Selby books appeared). The jacket design on this early G&D reprint is identical to that of the William Morrow first edition. Much less common (and considerably more durable) than the cheaply-produced Triangle Books edition from the 1940s. .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27751
Title: The D.A. Calls It Murder
Author: Gardner, Erle Stanley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Edition: 3rd printing (stated)
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1937
Keywords: Fiction: Mystery/Detective, Crime Fiction

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Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....