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Un volume broché de format in 8° de 236 pp; mention de 5e mille. Bon état. Voir photo. Peu fréquent dans cette condition.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 15 plates; red cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Four of the plates are by Russell Flint. SCARCE. Green & Gibson, B7.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 39 full-page illustrations in the text, some faint and occasional age-staining; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, uncut, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 6pp of publisher's advertisements bound in at end.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, neatly recased, backstrips mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a good, clean set. First appearance of Doyle's desert drama, present here in the original eight instalments with a total of forty-six illustrations by Paget (the book version, published later in the same year, contains only forty). 'The author visited Egypt at the end of 1895 and in January of the following year went with his family on a Cook's tour up the Nile to Wady Halfa. The threat from the Dervishes was then very real, a serious menance to civilisation and was the cause of some anxiety. Two months later the long-expected war broke out, and he chose to accompany the special force as a correspondent for the Westminster Gazette. He was at Korosko on 10 April and during the weeks that followed became well versed in the landscape and political realities of the country' (Green & Gibson). The first volume also contains Doyle's illustrated account 'Life on a Greenland Whaler'. SCARCE. Green & Gibson, p.106.
Contributions by many authors, including Round the Fire by A. Conan Doyle, and Seven Dragons by E. Nesbit. Plain red cloth covers. A little wear to cover corners and small nicks at top of spine. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Free endpapers browned. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, endpapers lightly browned, some light spotting as usual; original pictorial blue cloth blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, red sprinkled edges, lower hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. Contains the first appearance of Doyle's 'Round the Fire' stories II-VII. No. II is 'The Story of the Man with the Watches' (illustrated by Frank Craig); No. III is 'The Story of the Lost Special' (illustrated by Max Cowper). These two stories are widely recognised by Holmesians as the two most important 'lost' Holmes adventures. Both stories feature an unnamed amateur reasoner clearly intended by Doyle to be identified by his readers as Holmes himself. These two tales and their fellows were collected and published as 'Round the Fire Stories' in 1908. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. See Green & Gibson, p.409.
8vo., with 8 plates by F.H. Townsend; original red cloth, gilt back, joints lightly rubbed, small pull at headband, lower half of backstrip and lower board moderately age-marked else a good, firm copy. With publisher's advertisements at rear. First published by Blackett in 1890. The marked cover notwithstanding, a bright, clean copy internally. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS OF THIS CLASSIC HOLMES NOVEL ARE VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with preliminary plate, fine portrait frontispiece and 12 plates; original pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed at estremities else a near fine copy. With introductory essays by A. Lloyd-Taylor and John Dickson Carr, and a Critical Miscellany by H. Douglas Thomson. De Waal 4871.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 illustrations in the text; red boards blocked and lettered in white and black, black cloth, back lettered in red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
pp. (10), 366 + Frontis + Full page plates. Penciled ownership and bookplate of Augustus Ehrenfeld, 1896. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, decorated in gold and lettered in red. Binding worn at extremities and soiled. Spine darkened. Hardbound. First American edition. The Refugees is a historical novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes). It revolves around Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and Amos Green, an American who comes to visit France. Major themes include Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon, retirement from court of Madame de Montespan, the revoking of the Edict of Nantes and the subsequent emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America - From Wiki. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LITERATURE BOX 1
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations in the text, some light and occasional age-spotting to text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, expertly recased with hand-made endpapers, backstrips mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean, firm set. FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES'. The twelve immortal tales comprise: Silver Blaze; The Cardboard Box; The Yellow Face; The Stockbroker's Clerk; The Gloria Scott; The Musgrave Ritual; The Reigate Squires; The Crooked Man; The Resident Patient; The Greek Interpreter; The Naval Treaty; The Final Problem. The Memoirs were collected in book form in December 1893, excepting 'The Cardboard Box' which was not so published until 'His Last Bow' in 1917. Several of Paget's iconic illustrations were omitted from the book version, and those for 'The Cardboard Box' were never reprinted. SCARCE. Green & Gibson, p.73-75.
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, neatly recased, backstrip faded else a good, clean copy. First appearance of Doyle's boxing tale, present here in the original three instalments with a total of sixteen illustrations (2 full-page) by Paget. The story was never published individually in book form in the UK, but was included in The Green Flag (1900), and published individually in the US and Canada in 1907 (Green & Gibson A31). SCARCE. Green & Gibson, pp.119, 145.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND AND THE APPARENT DEATH OF HOLMES. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, December 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations, although sadly his immortal image of Holmes and Moriarty at Reichenbach does not appear here; it was first published as frontispiece to the 'Memoirs'. Chronologically the last of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the eleventh when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 68; Green & Gibson A14.xi.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND AND THE ONLY HOLMES SHORT STORY EXTENDED TO TWO CONSECUTIVE ISSUES. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, October & November 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the eleventh of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the tenth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 168; Green & Gibson A14.x.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, September 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the tenth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the ninth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 81; Green & Gibson A14.ix.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, August 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the ninth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the eighth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. In book form the text was expanded to include Holmes' famous thought-reading episode from 'The Cardboard Box'. De Waal 228; Green & Gibson A14.viii.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. VI, July 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the eighth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the seventh when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 44; Green & Gibson A14.vii.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, May 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the sixth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the fifth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 164; Green & Gibson A14.v.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND AND CHRONOLOGICALLY THE EARLIEST CASE IN THE CANON. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, April 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the fifth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the fourth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 74; Green & Gibson A14.iv.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, March 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the fourth of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the third when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 411; Green & Gibson A14.iii.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text, recto of first leaf (not part of the story) lightly scarred; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, February 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the third of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the second when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. De Waal 518; Green & Gibson A14.ii.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, June 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the seventh of the second series of twelve Homes short stories, but the sixth when the tales were collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]) due to the omission of 'The Cardboard Box' at Doyle's request. In book form the title was changed to 'The Reigate Squires' to reflect both villains. De Waal 225; Green & Gibson A14.vi (both wrongly recording the altered title).
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. V, January 1893, complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. Chronologically the second of the second series of twelve Holmes short stories later collected as the 'Memoirs' (1894 [1893]), it was omitted (apparently at Doyle's request) from the first and several subsequent editions due possibly to its theme of adultery; it was not published in book form until 'His Last Bow' (1917). Notably, when the tale was omitted from the 'Memoirs', Doyle transferred Holmes' famous thought-reading episode to the beginning of 'The Resident Patient'. Only one of Paget's illustrations is included in the book version. De Waal 33; see Green & Gibson pp.74-76.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, June 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the twelfth of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 38; Green & Gibson p.58.
8vo., First Edition,with illustrations in the text; attractively bound in full blue buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF HOLMES IN THE STRAND. Original serial publication from The Strand Magazine, Vol. III, May 1892; complete with Paget's iconic illustrations. First published in book form as the eleventh of the collected 'Adventures' (1892). De Waal 5; Green & Gibson p.58.
