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New York, NY: Hurst and Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Rear hinge badly split, with fly-leaf detached; front fly-leaf nearly detached. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Quite..... More
London: Ward, Lock Bowden Limited, 1895. Scarce printing of the first Sherlock Holmes novel, issued as the supplement to The Windsor Magazine Xmas Number, December 1895. This is the first edition to be illustrated by James Greig. Magazine format, stapled, 62 (of 64pp.). A fragile and worn example, lacking covers..... More
London: John Murray and Jonathan Cape, 1974. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.145 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor, priced at £1.95 to front flap. Tan endpapers illustrated with reproductions of George Hutchinson's drawings from..... More
New York, NY: George Munro's Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.177 [1]; 20; 97-122 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding detached and re-applied with glue quite roughly to spine, creating a tight back. Front fly-leaf detached, with some..... More
London: John Murray, 1964. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.92. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dustjacket. Some light spotting to prelims and to the edges, dustwrapper is nice and bright with just some creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. More
London: J. M. Dent, 1980. REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.xxii; [2]; 237; [3]. With publisher's compliments slip loose to prelims. In publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear; likely unread. Near fine. A prequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which Mycroft..... More
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 294. One of 1000 numbered copies, SIGNED by the author on the half title. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket. Housed in the publisher's black cloth-covered slipcase, titled in silver..... More
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 294. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. Spine ends slightly pushed. Dust-jacket a little rubbed to the top and bottom of the spine and to the corners. Very..... More
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 294. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99, with 'Conan Doyle Estate' sticker in red. As new. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed up by Moriarty in..... More
London, George Newnes Jan-Dec.1906. The complete Puck in parts; FIRST APPEARANCE, preceeding the edition in book-form. Original magazine issues; 10 separate parts. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers. Some minor chips as expected, some adsverts excised from Feb. and June issues, but generally a very clean, attractive..... More
London: George Newnes, 1891-1905. [Literary Magazine] FIRST THIRTY VOLUMES OF THE STRAND. Thirty volumes, large octavos (25 x 18 x 129cm). A straight run of 30 volumes, from volume I to XXX. Includes the first publication of several novels and stories such as Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles..... More
London: Constable, 1992. [Sherlockiana]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.203; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Terry Pastor. The second collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches by the crime writer and erstwhile teacher, supposedly recovered from a battered tin dispatch-box deposited by Dr Watson..... More
London: Macmillan, 1988. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by the author, priced..... More
London: The Strand Magazine, 1926, 1927. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavos (24 x 28cm), pp.666; pp.630. Consecutive bi-annuals uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout (1927 edition has some coloured illustrations and title pages), double columns. All edges speckled red..... More
London: The Leisure Hour, 29th January 1881, and 5th February 1881. [Sherlock Holmes Source] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Two A4 magazines (29 x 21cm), pp.281-296; pp.297-312. Paper covers with wood engraved illustrations; stapled. Lightly browned, chipped and rubbed to edges; staples bent out of shape. A pair of remarkable survivals. Very good..... More
London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and..... More
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son, 31st December 1904. [Sherlock Holmes] FIRST APPEARANCE. Large magazine (38 x 27cm), pp.32. With frequent in-text illustrations by various artists, including some by Frederic Dorr Steele to the Doyle story. Publisher's dichromatic paper covers, featuring a Holmes illustration, also by Steele. Sewn, and..... More
New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son, For November 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Large magazine (38 x 27cm), pp.32. With frequent in-text illustrations by various artists, including some by Frederic Dorr Steele to the Doyle story. Publisher's dichromatic paper covers, featuring a Holmes illustration, also by Steele. Sewn, and..... More