[Rarebooks] FS: Arthur Conan Doyle. 15 Vols, 1st Editions, Lot Price.

[Michael John Thompson]

Arthur Conan Doyle. LOT of 15 titles, mostly 
first editions. $220 US Postpaid in North 
America, Overseas at cost (overseas would be very expensive).

Offered subject to prior sale.

Note: "First Edition" mean First Edition, First 
Impression, unless otherwise qualified.


Arthur Conan Doyle. LOT.

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE EDINBURGH STORIES OF 
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. [Edinburgh]: Polygon Books. 
[1981]. First edition. Octavo, original black 
boards titled in gilt on spine. 86 pp. Price 
sticker partially removed from lower front 
flyleaf; a fine copy in dust jacket. ¶ Prints 4 
stories and an essay. Includes 'THE FIELD BAZAAR" 
a Sherlock Holmes story originally written for 
the Edinburgh University 'Student' in 1896.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. STRANGE STUDIES FROM LIFE 
And Other Narratives. The Complete True Crime 
Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Selected and 
Edited by Jack Tracy. Introduction by Peter 
Ruber. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Bloomington, 
Indiana: Gaslight Publications. 1992. First 
edition, second printing; the original edition 
was issued in 1988. Octavo, original green cloth 
titled in gilt on spine panel. 104 pp. A fine copy in dust jacket.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan.  LETTERS TO THE PRESS. 
Edited and Intrduced by John Michael Gibson and 
Richard Lancelyn Green. Iowa City: University of 
Iowa Press. [1986]. First American edition. 
Original boards. Fine in like dust wrapper.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING 
DETECTIVE. A facsimile of the original Sherlock 
Holmes Manuscript with an Introduction by Julian 
Symons and Afterword By Owen Dudley Edwards. 
London: Westminster Libraries & The Arthur Conan 
Doyle Society. 1991. First Edition, trade issue. 
Folio. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. ESSAYS ON PHOTOGRAPHY. The 
Unknown Conn Doyle. Compiled with an Introduction 
by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn 
Green. London: Secker and Warburg. [1982]. First 
Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, 
original green boards titled in gilt on spine. 
128 pp. Inscribed by one of the editors on the 
title page: "For John Ruyle from Richard Lancelyn 
Green with my best wishes and thanks". Text paper 
browning, slight discolouration to fore-edge of 
the endpapers due to the adjacent dust jacket; 
otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket. Uncommon.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan.  TALES OF TERROR AND 
MYSTERY. Introduction by Nina Conan Doyle 
Harwood. Illustrated by Barbara Ninde Byfield. 
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. 1977. 
First American Edition. Original cloth and 
boards. Fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket, (not price clipped).

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE SUPERNATURAL TALES OF 
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. Edited and Introduced by 
Peter Haining. London: W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd. 
[1987]. First Edition. Original boards. A fine 
copy in dust jacket (jacket slightly rubbed).

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. SONGS OF ACTION. New York: 
Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. First American 
Edition. First American edition. Small octavo, 
original red cloth titled and ruled in gilt. 144 
pp. Pencil name on front endpaper, mild foxing, a very good bright copy.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. ORIGINAL ADVENTURES OF 
SHERLOCK HOLMES. New York: R.F. Fenno & Compny, 
18 East Seventeenth Street [1903] [i.e., slightly 
later] Early Edition. "Special Limited Edition", 
dated 1903, but a later printing dating from 
circa 1906-1912 (as per the publisher's address 
on the title page). Original pictorial red cloth 
depicting the detective in orange and black, 
spine and front cover lettered in white. 431 pp + 
3 pp ads at rear. Frontispiece & nine plates, all 
illustrations of scenes from the Gillette stage 
play. At least two bindings of this edition 
exist; this one and another with an Art Nouveau 
floral design on the front cover, the flowers in 
white and gilt. A few interior marks, spine 
lettering slightly effaced; a very good copy.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. MICAH CLARKE. His Statement 
as Made to his Three Grandchildren Joseph, 
Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 
1734... Illustrated by George Willis Bardwell. 
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1894. 
Second Edition. The Second Authorized American 
Edition, and the first Illustrated edition. 
Octavo, original light brown cloth stamped in 
red, black, white & gold. 471 pp. Frontispiece 
and seven additional full page b&w plates. 
Ownership signature of Sherlockian Robert Frier 
on front end paper. Spine tanned, covers somewhat 
rubbed and dust soiled; a very good copy.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. SIR NIGEL. With 
Illustrations. Toronto: William Briggs. 1906. 
First Canadian Edition. First Canadian Edition. 
Octavo, original gray-green cloth stamped in 
black & green. 346 pp., frontispiece with tissue 
guard and full additional full page plates. 3,390 
copies printed. Ink name, dated 1906, on front 
endpaper; neat repairs to inner hinges, a fresh 
clean copy, very good or better.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. OUR AMERICAN ADVENTURE. New 
York: George H. Doran Company. [1923]. First 
American Edition. First American edition. Octavo, 
original brown cloth titled in green. 190 pp. 
Frontispiece portrait of Doyle.Two names on front 
free endpaper, both early, one in ink and one in 
pencil; small stains and light dust-soiling to the cloth. A very good copy.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN 
DOYLE By Sir John Dickson Carr. New York: Harper 
& Brothers. [1949]. First American edition. 
Original cloth. Dust jacket wuite chipped and worn.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE VITAL MESSAGE. New York: 
George H. Doran Company. [1919]. First American 
edition. Second issue, with the added 'Appendix 
B- A Particular Instance'. Small bookplate. A 
bright, very good copy. Spiritualism.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. SONGS OF THE ROAD. Garden 
City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1911. 
First American Edition. First American edition. 
12mo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt. 137 
pp. Mild rubbing to the cloth; a very good bright 
copy. ¶ G&G A34b, 971 copies printed.





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