Arthur Conan Doyle Roberts (38 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus by Chancellor Press Octavo hardback. xxiv + 436 pp. Very Good condition in Very Good. No inscriptions.

Paperback. Condition: Good ++. 435 pages. Some wear to covers' corners & spine-ends, covers lightly rubbed. Page-edges lightly yellowed o/w contents very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. xxiiii + 435 pages. No dustjacket. Clean dark blue hardback binding with faded gilt-colour spine titles. Back spine-junction rubbed for about a quarter of length. Light/moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges yellowed, a bit of foxing to endpapers o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First thus. VG/No jacket. Publisher's original "Oxford Blue" cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, OUP crest blind-stamped to front board. Some rubbing to front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/G++. DJ price-clipped but else entire - a little grubby.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Printing. This copy is minty, like it came fresh off the bookstore shelf. The spine is tight, boards rigid, interior is unmarked. Tips are pointed. Appears unread. The jacket IS NOT price clipped and is unblemished. Looks spiffy in a shiny new plastic cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 15 short stories. Featured are The Resident Patient by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle, The Cyprian Bees by Anthony Wynne, Easter Devil by Mignon Eberhart, But the Patient Died by Lawrence G. Blochman, The Problem of the Covered Bridge by Edward D. Hoch, Hurting Much? by Cornell Woolrich, The Memorial Hour by Wade Miller, Guilty Witness by Morris Hershman, The Doctor Takes a Case by George Harmon Coxe, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers by Ben Hecht, Doctor's Orders by John Suter, The Splinter by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Sound Alibi by Jack Ritchie, Paint Doctor by Joe L. Hensley, The Other Side of the Curtain by Helen McCloy. Faint rubbing to the surface of the dustjacket. Price clipped otherwise in fine / near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small spot of glue residue on front fly, else fine in a lightly soiled very good dust jacket with a touch of toning and mild edgewear. Errata slip tipped-in at title page. A collection of essays about the famous pair, plus *Christmas Eve* and *The Stranger Case of the Megatherium Thefts*, two adventures previously printed for private distribution only.

24pp., 8vo, paginated 161-184. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Roberts contributes 'The Cult of Sherlock'; Frank Swinnerton, 'Holmes - World Figure'; Darwin, 'The Great Holmes Joke'; Howlett and Pointer, 'Holmes on Stage and Screen'; Paget, 'He made Holmes real' ('In this article Winifred Paget writes of her father, Sidney Paget, whose drawings, says Frank Swinnerton on another page, made Holmes "the most universally familiar imaginary figure in two hemispheres'.