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Tales From Many Sources.
New York, Dodd Mead and Co. 1885. First edition, 4 volumes. 8vo. All bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth. Titled and decorated in gilt to spines and front boards. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III..... More
Danger! And Other Stories.
London: John Murray, 1918 [1931]. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, secondary binding. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.x; 246. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, pale blue-green dust-jacket priced at 6s. Neat ownership and date stamps to flyleaf. A lovely fine copy in fresh jacket, with reduced..... More
The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone of the "Daily Gazette".
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. (vii) + 319. With photographic portrait frontispiece of members of the expedition, plates and map (complete). Bound in the publisher's pictorial mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration of Challenger to upper, titled and bordered in white..... More
The Maracot Deep and Other Stories.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Octavo, pp.307. Publisher's black decorative cloth printed in yellow in the original colourful pictorial dust jacket. A little dusty to top edge but essentially a fine copy of the book. The jacket is faded and browned to..... More
The Parasite.
London: Constable, 1894. [Supernatural Fiction]. FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Small octavo (16 x 9cm), pp.125. Ribbed blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, gilt dragon design to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Minor toning to edges, cloth a little worn at extremities, bookplate 'Christopher Clark Geest', pencil..... More
The Parasite.
London: Constable, 1894. [Supernatural Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 9cm), pp.125; [1]. With 'macabre' illustrated title page. Elegantly bound in half blue calf over marbled sides, gilt titles, speckled edges. Internally clean, exterior unmarked. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Doyle's own unique attempt at..... More
Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life.
London: Methuen, 1894. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vii; 328; [32], advertisements (dated October 1894). Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, black morocco title label, marbled sides, publisher's original cloth bound in at rear. Very clean within, adverts partially..... More
The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. [Detective fiction] TRUE FIRST EDITION, prior to UK first printing, which was not illustrated. Post octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. With seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller, including the frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt. Light wear only, some minor..... More
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