[Rarebooks] FS: Vincent Starrett's copy of a very scarce Conan Doyle first edition

[Michael John Thompson]

PS. The price is $250, more or less....






>Offering: Vincent Starrett's copy of a very scarce Conan Doyle first edition
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>[DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan]; RUBER, Peter [editor].
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>STRANGE STUDIES FROM LIFE. Containing Three 
>Hitherto Uncolected Tales Based on the Annals of 
>True Crime - A Profile of the Author by Philip 
>Trevor - Edited with an Introduction and a Note 
>on the Illustrator by Peter Ruber.
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>Place Published: New York & Copenhagen
>Publisher: The Candlelight Press
>Date Published: 1963
>Edition: First Edition, First Printing
>Binding: Original Wraps
>Condition: Very Good
>Book Id: 308955
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>Description:
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>First Edition. Quarto, original blue printed 
>wrappers, stapled at spine. 54 pp, tipped-in 
>frontspiece portrait of Doyle. 200 copies 
>printed. A mimeographed notice from the press, 
>relating to scheduled publications, is loosly 
>laid in. This sheet is inscribed at the bottom: 
>"Dear V.S. - This doesn't concern you - but I 
>send it in case you (need?) scrap paper - P 
>Ruber. P.S. Would Like your opinions & comments 
>of this." One can safely assume from the 
>inscription that the book was sent to "V.S." by 
>Ruber, but is "V.S." Vincent Starrett? Likely, 
>says this cataloguer. Wrappers lightly worn at 
>edges, short closed tear (neatly repaired) at 
>bottom edge of front panel, wrappers tanning 
>towards the sides, staples with a bit rusty; a 
>very good copy. Very scarce. Green & Gibson B48.
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>Comments
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>¶ Collects three 'Strange Studies from Life': 
>'The Holocaust of Manor Place', 'The Love Affair 
>of George Vincent Parker' and 'The Debatable 
>Case of Mrs. Elmsley', along with 'A British 
>Commando. An Interview with Conan Doyle' by 
>Captain Philip Trevor, all reprinted (in 
>facsimile, with othe original illustrations by 
>Sidney Paget) from the 'Strand Magazine', 1901. 
>Issued as 'The First Annual Publication of the 
>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Society'. There were no further issues.
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Canada V0R 1Z0
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