Bigelow S Tupper (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed. (1988), revised and expanded, issued by Battered Silicon. Burgundy cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 130 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

8vo. pp 130. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt blocked lettering at front. ISBN: 0896032311 A few light marks at top edge, else clean and bright. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Toronto, Canada: Castalotte & Zamba, 1959. 46 pp. 22 x 15 cm. Blue stiff paper covers with a white plastic comb binding and black titling to cover. Break to very top of plastic comb, with half of the top coil missing. Some uneven sunning to front cover with some light soil and a small splash mark. Signed and inscribed on title page to Baker Street Irregular member William Berner of San Francisco. A quote has been added in the same blue ink to the publisher's page by Bigelow. There are some penciled notes on the dedication page which appear to be possible needed additions to the glossary, which are probably in Berner's hand. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound. De Waal 4251. Signed by Author. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Cahen, Oscar; Winter, W.A.; Richardson, Aileen; Anderson,Don; Winter, William (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Cover illustration by Oscar Cahen of wedding scene; Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Austin car ad; Richard Keith Van Sickle - this oilman from Petrolia, Ontario ducked out of Austria in 1939 and the Russians grabbed his oil wells; The Girl with the Gingham Heart (fiction); But the Red Men (Indians) Didn't Vanish! - Canada's policy of cruelty and neglect toward native peoples is on the mend (large photo of Chief Joseph Abel of Yellowknife); An Island to Share (fiction); Country Minister - as the United Church celebrates its 25th anniversary modern young ministers like Elridge Currey of Victoria Square, Ontario, carry on with the great task; The Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) Railway of British Columbia - colour-photo-illustrated article; Mermaids made to measure - Archie Johnston of Toronto makes fake mermaids, mummies, etc. for carnivals; Why Don't Adults Grow Up?; The Vigilante Massacre - on Feb. 4, 1880 about 20 men attached the Donnelly home near Lucan, Ontario; Man's Last Enemy is Himself - political news from Britain with Churchill content; Nice colour (red) Meteor car ad; The Spoof That Swept a Continent - Lewis Gorin, Jr. and friends demanded soldier bonuses - while alive to spend them!; Nice colour White Road ad with Lake Louise motif; Nice colour-photo Canadian National ad shows family having luxury meal in dining car; 1950 Chevrolet truck ad; Back cover O'Keefe's ad features wonderful colour illustration of picnic scene by William Winter; and more. 60 pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 1 June, 1950 - Oilman Richard Keith Van Sickle / Vigilante Murder of the Donnelly Family Near Lucan, Ontario Oscar Cahen of wedding scene; Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Austin.

Condition: Very good. First edition of Bigelow's comprehensive lexicon for Sherlockians, quite rare in this format. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue paper covers in plastic comb binding. 46, [1] leaves, printed rectos only. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Contemporary gift inscription in pencil to title page. Typographical errors neatly hand-corrected in pen on pages 2, 4, and 41. Light edgewear; several pages partially detached from plastic comb.