The D. A. Cooks a Goose - Inscribed - Erle Stanley Gardner 1941 - William Morrow and Company, New York - First Edition First edition, inscribed to his secretary Louise Weissberger - ‘To Louise, Who is one of the the fiction factory with much love, yours Erle’ and signed ‘Erle Stanley Gardner’.

‘A midnight hit-and-run accident on a lonely mountain road...
a tragic fatality
discovery of the missing car...
and Doug Selby, District Attorney of Madison City, finds himself not only up against a most involved case but in the hottest spot of his career.’
  First edition with ‘1942’ to title page, and copyright page showing ‘Copyright - 1941, 1942’ and the letter code ‘Q-B’.

Octavo (book size 19.x13.8cm), pp. [4] 249 [3]. In publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge tinted red, fore-edge untrimmed, lower edge trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front flap. Jacket with some minor colour touch-up to spots at head and tail of spine, and along lower edge off front panel.
  Condition: Near fine, light foxing to pages and fore-edge, slightly heavier to earlier pages, in very good dust jacket, foxing to rear panel, little of the usual fading to spine, and some very minor colour touch-up to spots at head and tail of spine, and along lower edge off front panel.   Ref: 110331   Price: HK$ 12,000