"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Round the Fire Stories.
New York, NY: The McClure Company, 1908. [Mystery tales] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 356; [4], blank. With a frontispiece illustration by A.Castaigne. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Contents clean, no ink names, minor bleed from cloth to margin of final few leaves, covers are especially bright and fresh. 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 #75270
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [356]. Green and Gibson. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction [p115-119].
Price: £250.00
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