A. A. Fair [Erle Stanley Gardner] — The Bigger They Come

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1939 . Cloth. A superb, early edition of the first Cool and Lam mystery novel, written by Erle Stanley Gardner, published the same year as the first edition and presented in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Second edition. Published the same year as the first, which was published by William Morrow. This edition is published by Grosset & Dunlap. Very scarce, particularly with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. Written by American author and lawyer, Erle Stanley Gardner, under one of his many pseudonyms, A. A. Fair.The first of Gardner's novels to feature Bertha Cool, head of the B. L. Detective Agency in Los Angeles, and her partner Donald Lam. Cool and Lam are tasked with serving a mobster his divorce papers, a job which leads to a kidnapping, a framed murder and a damsel in distress. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with light edge wear, the odd mark and a little rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.