[Rarebooks] FS: Price Reduced: Arthur Conan Doyle Lot 15 items
Michael John Thompson
mjt at mjtbooks.com
Tue Mar 17 14:43:29 EDT 2015
Arthur Conan Doyle. LOT of 15 titles, mostly first editions.
$185 US Postpaid in North America, (was $220.00)
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.
Thanks for looking
/mjt
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