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Round the Fire Stories.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1908. [Mystery tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 372 [4]. With a halftone frontispiece by Andre Castaigne. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine, gilt illustration to upper. Advertisements to rear. Contents clean with just a few small spots to the prelims., cloth lightly handled, gilt a touch rubbed. Doyle's paradoxical appreciation for both the logical criminal mind and the paranormal come together in this series of short tales where one has no idea what's next in store. Will it be a far-fetched but perfectly possible feat of villainous intelligence, or a genuine ghost? These are strange and horrible tales, mostly with an eerie nature, although two are ingenious enough to involve the great detective; there is a cameo appearance from Sherlock Holmes, p.187, with deductions in 'The Lost Special'. Also features 'The Man with the Watches', an apocryphal Holmes story. Item #74013
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [356]. Green and Gibson. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction [p115-119]. Provenance; Dr.James Foster Hasbrouck (1870-1945), dentist to President Theodore Roosevelt (neat bookplate to pastedown).
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