London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne... More about Hilda Wade

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 360; [2]. Signature of Julian Barnes to the title page. In publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of... More about Arthur and George

London: Frank Palmer, 1912. [Marriage and Divorce]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.110 [2]. Publisher's cyan paper covers printed in burgundy to spine and front cover. Black ink ownership inscriptions to verso of front cover and fly-leaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and preliminaries. Some rubbing and browning... More about Divorce and Morality

Boston, MA: Multum in Parvo Library, 1897. [Short story] PIRATE EDITION. Small pamphlet (11 x 8cm), pp.16. Eight sheets, folded once, single staple to fold. Decorative border to first page, printed advertisements to bottom of final page. Some browning to paper stock, rust to staple. Rare. Fine. An obscure short... More about His Vision. The Dream of Number Thirty-One

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1904. [Historical Fiction] COPYRIGHT EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.279; [33]. Publisher's printed paper wraps. Latest date January 1904, given on the first page of advertisements at rear. An extremely clean, crisp copy. Fine. More about Adventures of Gerard

London: George Newnes, March 1891. [Literary Magazine]. RARE ROYAL EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] 227-332 [4]. With a special etching by Queen Victoria showing herself with her first child, as well as the usual in-text wood engravings. In publisher's special light blue silk with titles and 'Strand' illustration to... More about The Strand Magazine [Royal Edition]. Volume I number 3

London: George Newnes. 1898. Featuring the first publication of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Round the Fire' story no. 5, 'The Story of the Black Doctor', with 7 illustrations by Joseph Finnemore. Also first publication of H.G. Wells' 'Mr Ledbetter's Vacation', with 8 illustrations by Shepperson. 25 x 17cm. vol. xvi, no... More about The Strand Magazine October 1898

London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, lightly rubbed at joints. Very good indeed... More about By Way of Introduction

London: The Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, no date [May 1915]. [Propaganda] RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Crown Octavo (21 x 14cm). pp.31; [1] blank. Publisher's brown paper wrappers, titles in black, stapled once, with printed price of one penny to upper. Internally fine, some splitting to spine, a little creasing/folding... More about The Story of British Prisoners

Boston: Little Brown and Company 1924. FIRST US EDITION. Large 8vo. Pp.vii; 410; [2], blank. With frontisportrait. Publisher's blue gilt-titled cloth in original dust-wrapper. Book is fine, jacket worn with some loss along top edge and significant chips to spine. Rather scarce in the jacket. A fascinating autobiographical account of... More about Memories and Adventures [With a Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

London: Chatto and Windus, 1889. [Short Stories] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Ex Libris Richard Lancelyn Green. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 336; [32]. Advertisements dated April 1889, but published June 1889. With eight wood engraved illustrations by various artists, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and... More about The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange [in] Strange Secrets, Told by Percy Fitzgerald, Florence...

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, June 17, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine... More about Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1895. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Reigate Puzzle...

New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, February 11, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine... More about Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1917. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Yellow Face