Book Covers-My Perry Mason Collection
I began watching in September, 1957, at six.
I still do, sometimes twice each day. I own the CDs and will get newer, better ones. If I have a genial obsession aside from Doowop, Perry’s it.
In 1970 I ambled into a center city Philadelphia used bookshop and for $100 left with the Erle Stanley Gardner ouvre, all of the Perry Mason novels (and his other mysteries) in hardback, originally published by Wm. Morrow & Company.
I love Perry.
(These are the volumes I have.)
09/24/2019 @ 5:58 pm
As you can see, the original covers looked like law books.
09/24/2019 @ 11:33 pm
🙂
09/24/2019 @ 8:35 pm
The librarian at our local branch gave my sister permission to choose books from the adult section well before she had finish eighth grade. By then she had read virtually all of the children’s section. Her first choice was Perry Mason and she read them all. (I read them after she finished them and before she returned them. I don’t remember that much about them. They were ok.) Then she went on to James Bond and my pattern remained the same. Meh. I never cared enough to check out any on my own. 8)
06/10/2022 @ 3:15 pm
Cool disclosure, JW! Lil’ Bit and me have been OTR for over a year and O yeah once in awhile along the way Jimmie Hendrix’s WATCHTOWER blares the quads {…} gentle on my mind y’all!